OF

The Plan

OF

THIS TESTAMENT.

HAVING scen proposals for publishing this Edition of our English Testament, we hereby signify our approbation of the plan, and recommend it to our Christian friends.

Beside the Reverend Gentlemen mentioned above, the following have also given the PLAN their encouragement, either by letter or in private.

J. P. WILSON, D. D. Phladelphia.

JAMES LAWRIF, D. D. Washington.
REV. J. BRECKINRIDGE, Baltimore.

REV. DR. MASON, New-York.

REV. DR. ALEXANDER, Princeton, N. J.

HON. THEOD. FRELINGHUYSEN, Newark, N. J.

ERRATA.

Page 4, at the bottom, for January, 1826, read December, 1826. 15, line 5th of text, for sickness read sicknesses.

Dele Mar. x. $2. John xix. 28.

AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY
COMPARED AND REVISED.

THE TEXT OF THE COMMON TRANSLATION

18 ARRANGED IN PARAGRAPHS, SUCH AS THE SENSE REQUIRES; THE
DIVISIONS OF CHAPTERS AND VERSES BEING NOTED

IN THE MARGIN.

BY JAMES NOURSE

STUDENT IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
PRINCETON, N. J.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY G. & C. CARVILL

5193

1927

L. S.

District of New Jersey, to wit:
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the first day
of December, in the fifty-first year of the Indepen-
dence of the United States of America, Anno Domini

1826, JAMES NOURSE, of the said District, hath
deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof
he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

"The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ;
translated out of the original Greek, and with the former transla-
tions diligently compared and revised. The text of the commou
translation is arranged in paragraphs, such as the sense requires ;
the divisions of chapters and verses being noted in the margin.
By James Nourse, Student in the Theological Seminary,
Princeton, N. J."

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Clerk of the District of New-Jersey.

Printed at the Princeton Press,

By D. A. BORRENSTEIN.

THOSE editions of the Greek Testament, which divide the text to continuous paragraphs, and retain the marks of chapters ad verses in the margin, for the purpose of reference, are now ost generally used. An arrangement of this kind, is the only pe which common sense approves, and affords not a little assistce to those who study the original scriptures.

The design of the present edition of the English Testament, to present the reader with the word of God, printed in ich a way as will assist him in understanding it. How much is ined in this respect, the use of the volume will disclose.

That there is any thing sacred, in the old divisions, which forbids eir change, or even their entire rejection, will be supposed by one, after a consideration of the following facts:-Chapters were st used by Hugo De Sancto Caro, about the middle of the 3th century. He projected the first Concordance, and introuced new divisions, more convenient for reference than the old. lis chapters were made without primary regard to the sense, ad were cautiously received on that account, for they did not btain a general use until the middle of the 15th century.-Verses he more modern. They were invented by Robert Stephens, and st used by him in his edition of the Greek Testament, publishthe middle of the 16th century, (A. D. 1551.) He made em solely for the purpose of reference. Their utility soon gainthem a general reception, and by some they were unwarily insferred from the margin, into the body of the text, which as then first broken up, after the common method.

In forming the divisions found in this Testament, the edition of he Greek, by Knapp, (3d edition, Halle, 1824,) has been laiefly followed, sometimes Bengel's are preferred; some are