The New Testament

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h IT WAS WHILE I WAS TEACHING V AR- ious Greek texts to beginning students that I was struck by the natural ease with which Revelation turned itself into English. I undertook the translation, and The Reve­lation of fohn appeared as a separate volume in 1962. I continued with the Four Gospels, but with many inter­ruptions for other tasks.

I have held throughout to the principle of keeping as close to the Greek as possible, not only for sense and for individual words, but in the belief that fidelity to the original word order and syntax may yield an English prose that to some extent reflects the style of the original. The aim of at least some other contemporary translators has been, avowedly, just the opposite: to be faithful to the sense but to render it in contemporary idiom. This is, of course, a perfectly legitimate aim, and is part of the reason why there is room for a number of modem trans­lations.

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