The Emphatic Diaglott New Testament.pdf

THE

EMPHATIC DIAGLOTT

CONTAINING THE

ORIGINAL GREEK TEXT

OF WHAT IS COMMONLY STYLED THE

NEW TESTAMENT

( According to the Recension of Dr. J. J. Griesbach )

WITH AN

INTERLINEARY WORD FOR WORD ENGLISH TRANSLATION

A NEW EMPHATIC VERSION

BASED ON THE INTERLINEARY TRANSLATION, ON THE RENDERINGS OF EMINENT

CRITICS, AND ON THE VARIOUS READINGS OF

THE VATICAN MANUSCRIPT

No. 1209 in the Vatican Library

BY BENJAMIN WILSON

The Emphatic Diaglott

In 1888, Zion's Watch Tower carried in the July issue (Reprint page 1051) an offer to all its

readers to receive a copy of the Emphatic Diaglott at a subsidized price of $1.50 which

included a year's subscription (or renewal) to the Tower, and postage of sixteen cents. The

brother who made this possible, acquired in 1902 the copyright and plates and presented

them to the Society as a gift.

An early copy at hand, which was presented in 1903 to Br. Silas Arnold of Dayton, Ohio

by Br. Russell, includes an editor's page. As this has not been included in later editions, the

text of this item may be of interest to our readers and is reprinted here.

"A Friendly Criticism"

This work we regard as a very valuable help to all Bible students, whether conversant

with the Greek language or not. We esteem it (as a whole) the most valuable translation of

the New Testament extant.

We call special attention to the 'word for word' translation, found immediately under the

Greek text, in the left hand column. It will be found valuable, especially for a critical

examination of any particular text. A little study will enable you to appreciate it.

Like all things made and done by imperfect mortals, we think this valuable work not

without its faults. It would seem to us that the author must have held the view that Jesus

had no prehuman existence, and that there is no personal devil; i.e., that when the word

devil' is used evil principle is meant; also that Jesus is still a man and flesh, in glory.

In commending this work to you as a whole so highly as we have done, we deem it but a

duty to draw your attention to a very slight bias which we think pervades the work in the

direction named.

As some pointed illustrations of what we have remarked, we suggest an examination and

comparison between the right and left columns of the work, in the following scriptures, viz:

John 1:10, Rev. 13:8; Jude 9; Heb. 10:20.

Editor of Zion's Watch Tower.

PREFACE

To trouble the reader with any lengthy remarks on the important advantage to be derived

from a new translation of the Sacred Writings is deemed altogether unnecessary. Much

information on this point has been given by others who have published modern versions of the

New Testament, with the reasons which have induced them to do so. Those reasons will serve in

a great measure also for this. It is generally admitted by all critics that the Authorized or

Common version of the Scriptures absolutely needs revision. Obsolete words, uncouth phrases,

bad grammar and punctuation, etc., all require alteration. But this is not all. There are errors of a

more serious nature which need correction. The translators of the Common version were

circumscribed and trammeled by royal mandate; they were required to retain certain old

ecclesiastical words which, accordingly, were left untranslated. Thus the minds of many who

had no means of knowing the meaning of the original words have been misled and confused.

Biblical criticism, however, during the last two hundred years, has done much to open up and

elucidate the Word of God, by discovering many things which were unknown to the old

translators, making great improvements in the text, detecting numerous interpolations and errors,

and suggesting far better renderings of many passages. Many modern versions have availed

themselves of this valuable assistance, and it is believed they have thereby been enabled to give

the English reader a better understanding of what was originally written.

Without presuming to claim any superiority for this, as a translation of the New

Testament, over any other modern version, it is thought that the present Work presents certain

valuable features not found elsewhere, and which will be of real practical utility to every one who

wishes to read the books of the evangelists and apostles as they were written under the guidance

and inspiration of the Holy Spirit. These features are:--An approved Greek text, with the various

Readings of the Vatican Manuscript. No. 1209; an Interlineary literal Word for Word English

translation; a New Version, with the Signs of Emphasis; a copious selection of References; many

appropriate, illustrative, and exegetical Footnotes; and a valuable Alphabetical Appendix. This

combination of important items cannot be found in any other book. The reader will find further

remarks on this subject, on the page headed,

Plan of the Work

and he is also invited to read the

pages with the respective captions;--

To the Reader;

History of the Greek Text

; and

History

of English Versions.

Also, on another page will be found the

Letters and Pronunciation of the

for the special benefit of those who may wish to obtain a rudimentary

knowledge of that language.

The intelligent reader will at once perceive the utility and importance of this arrangement.

Readers who are familiar with the original tongue obtain in this Work one of the best Greek

Testaments, with important ancient readings, well worthy of their attention; and, it is presumed,

there are even few Greek scholars who are so far advanced but may derive some help from the

translation given. Those who have only a little or no knowledge of the Greek may, by careful

reading and a little attention to the Interlineary translation, soon become familiar with it. This

Work, in fact, places in the hands of the intelligent English reader the means of knowing and

appropriating for his own benefit, with but little labor on his part, what has cost others years of

study and severe toil to acquire.

Greek Alphabet,

Scrupulous fidelity has been maintained throughout this version in giving the true

rendering of the original text into English; no regard whatever being paid to the prevailing

doctrines or prejudices of sects, of the peculiar tenets of theologians. To the divine authority of

the original Scriptures alone has there been the most humble and unbiased submission.

In the preparation of this work for the press, all available help to be derived from the

labors of great and learned men has been obtained and appropriated. Lexicons, Grammars,

ancient and modern Versions, Commentaries, critical and explanatory, Cyclopedias, Bible and

other Dictionaries, etc., have been consulted and culled from. Also, the suggestions, opinions

and criticism of friends, on words, phrases and passages, have been duly considered, and

sometimes adopted. It is not presumed that this work is free from faults or errors. Infallibility is

left for others to claim. Great care however, has been exercised to make it as correct as possible.

The Work is now sent forth to the public, to stand or fall on its own merits. True, it

cannot boast of being the production of a council of learned men, as King James

This Volume, principally designed for the instruction and advantage of others, is now

reverently committed to the blessing of our Father in the heavens, with an earnest and sincere

desire that many of those who peruse its pages may be led by the knowledge, faith and obedience

inculcated therein to obtain an inheritance in the aionian kingdom of Jesus the Anointed One.

B. WILSON.

version; but let

it be remembered that TYNDALE alone, under very disadvantageous circumstances, did far

more for the English Bible than that learned body, for they only followed in the wake of his

labors.

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