Not only does a new light shine out from many hitherto obscure expressions, but we are enveloped in a new electric atmosphere. When we look at the result in detail, the effect is striking. Recent grammatical research in the translation of the aorist, the article, and the particles, have been utilized by him, and he has translated directly from the new text of Von Soden, although he has not always followed Von Soden's sometimes questionable hypotheses and arrangement. Moffatt has attempted to be more accurate than the Revised Version of 1881. In addition to emphasizing modernity over the Authorized Version of 1611, and making the thought intelligible to any reader, Dr. The archaic and formal give way to the common living, flowing talk of life. The old records receive a new habiliment, in lines sheer to the figure, and stylistic cut to date. Here is an English New Testament with the starch and stiffness of antiquity taken out of it, and the dust of former centuries wiped from it. Review of James Moffatt's New Testament by Theodore E Schmauk (The Lutheran Church Review 1914) See also 100 Rare New Testament Translations and Versions on DVDrom
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