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Title: The New Testament
Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological
Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions
of Chapters and Verses.

Author: Various

Translator: Leicester Ambrose Sawyer

Release Date: June 26, 2008 [EBook #25901]

Language: English

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THE

NEW TESTAMENT,

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK, WITH CHRONOLOGICAL
ARRANGEMENT OF THE SACRED BOOKS, AND IMPROVED
DIVISIONS OF CHAPTERS AND VERSES

BY
LEICESTER AMBROSE SAWYER.

BOSTON:
JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY.
CLEVELAND, OHIO:
HENRY P. B. JEWETT.
LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON AND COMPANY.
1858.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858, by
JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of
Massachusetts.

LITHOTYPED BY COWLES AND COMPANY,
17 WASHINGTON ST.,
BOSTON.
Press of Allen and Farnham.

PREFACE.

THIS is not a work of compromises, or of conjectural interpretations of
the sacred Scriptures, neither is it a paraphrase, but a strict literal
rendering. It neither adds nor takes away; but aims to express the
original with the utmost clearness, and force, and with the utmost
precision. It adopts, however, except in the prayers, a thoroughly
modern style, and makes freely whatever changes are necessary for this
purpose.

Besides being a contribution to Biblical science, it is designed to be
a still more important contribution to practical religion, for which
the Bible in its original languages and in all its translations is
chiefly valuable. The translation depends mainly on its superior
adaptation to this end, under the blessing of God, for its success and
usefulness. If it shall be found on trial to be a superior instrument
of piety and virtue, it will doubtless meet with favor and do good. The
ascendency of practical religion is