Texts Explained: Or Helps to Understand the New Testament (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Farrar, Frederic William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1527643298 ISBN 13: 9781527643291

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Texts Explained: Or Helps to Understand the New Testament

I have called this book Texts flplained, because I could find no title which more simply described the object which I have had in view. The texts are chosen entirely from the New Testament, because the volume would otherwise have been larger than I contemplated.

It is needless to say that I have not, in the following pages, attempted to write a continuous commentary, but only to call attention to a large number of verses or passages of which in matters of varying importance the force, the beauty, the correct reading, the exact ren dering, or the deep special significance has often been mistaken, overlooked, or altogether obliterated.

That such a book may be most useful I feel no doubt whatever, and there are multitudes, who, by reading it carefully, might gain more from it, a better knowledge of the real meaning of many passages than seems to be common. There is no text here selected for some brief elucidation which does not gain in instructiveness, or interest, when its exact connotation is simply explained. And although, in many instances, our invaluable Revised Version furnishes the right key for the meaning of the text, yet the significance of the changes in the translation often needs to be explained or emphasised, not only to unlearned and ignorant readers, but even to many for whom such explanation might have seemed to be superfluous. That this is really the case became clear to me from the following circumstance.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1527643298
• ISBN 13: 9781527643291
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392