A NEW

LITERAL TRANSLATION

FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK,

OF ALL THE

APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES.

WITH

A COMMENTARY, AND NOTES,

PHILOLOGICAL, CRITICAL, EXPLANATORY, AND PRACTICAL.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.

By JAMES MACKNIGHT, D.D.

AUTHOR OF A HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS, &c.

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW;

AND WILLIAM CREECH, AND OGLE AND AIKMAN, EDINBURGH.

1806.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

ACCOUNT of the Life and Character of the Author,

General Preface, p. 1.

P. vii

Sect. 1. Of the ancient translations of the fcriptures.—2. Of

the English translations.-3. Of the principles on which the

tranflation of the epiftles now offered to the public, is form-

ed.-4. Of the prefaces to each epistle, of the views of the

matters contained in each chapter, of the commentaries, and

of the notes.

Preliminary Effays, p. 55.

Effay I. On the inspiration of the apostles.-II. On the method

in which their writings were preserved.-III. On St. Paul's

style.-IV. On tranflating the Greek words and phrases

used by the infpired writers,

ROMANS, p. 163.

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Preface. Se&t. 1. Of the time when the Christian religion was
introduced into Rome. 2. Of the ftate of the Christian
church, when this epiftle was written.-3. Of the occafion
of writing this epiftle.-Of the place where it was written,

Premonition, fhewing that this translation of the apoftolical

epiftles, may juftly be called a new translation,

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P., 178

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