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Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament (Classic Reprint)
Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament - Classic Reprint Author:John Wesley First the sense was made better, stronger, clearer, or more consistent with the context: secondly, where the sense being equally good, tho phrase was better or neater the original. To the latter, who think the alterations too few, and that the translation might have been nearer still, I answer, this is true: I acknowledge it might. But what valu... more »able end would it have answered, to multiply such trivial alterations as add neither clearness nor strength to the text. This I could not prevail upon mysclf to uo: so much the less because there lS, to my apprehension, I know not what, peculiarly solemn and venerable in the old language of our translation. And suppose this a mistaken apprehension, and an instance of human infirmity; yet, is it not an excusable infirmity, to be unwilling to part with what we have been long accustomed to; and to love the very words by which God has often conveyed strength or comfort to our souls! I have endeavoured to make the notes a
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