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Title: The Emphatic Diaglott / containing the / Original Greek Text / of what is commonly styled the / New Testament / (According to the Recension of Dr. J. J. Griesbach) / with an / Interlineary Word for Word English Translation /
A New Emphatic Version / Based on the Interlineary Translation, on the Renderings of Eminent / Critics, and on Various Readings of / The Vatican Manuscript / No. 1209 in the Vatican Library /
Together with Illustrative and Explanatory Foot / Notes and a Copious Selection of References / to the whole of which is added / a valuable alphabetical appendix / by Benjamin Wilson.
Date: 1870 (first printed in 1864)
Publisher: New York (U.S.A.): Samuel R. Wells
Language: Greek and English
Contents: New Testament
References: Chamberlin 557-5, Hills see 1792, Herbert see 1950, Taliaferro-BVE CN00130, Taliaferro-EELBV 7480.
Images: Title page
Facsimile: A pdf facsimile of the 1870 edition is available at books.google.com.
In 1902, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society obtained the rights and plates for this translation and made it available for a number of years. Wilson translates John 1:1 as: "In a beginning was the Word, and the Word was with the God, and a god was the Word." in the interlinear version. His actual translation reads: "In the Beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God."
Title: The Emphatic Diaglott • Διγλωττον / containing the / Original Greek Text / of what is commonly styled the / New Testament / (According to the Recension of Dr. J. J. Griesbach) / with an / Interlineary Word for Word English Translation /
A New Emphatic Version / Based on the Interlineary Translation, on the Renderings of Eminent / Critics, and on Various Readings of / The Vatican Manuscript / No. 1209 in the Vatican Library /
Together with Illustrative and Explanatory Foot / Notes and a Copious Selection of References / to the whole of which is added / a valuable alphabetical appendix / by Benjamin Wilson.
Date: 1942 (Even though this volume bears the date of 1942, it was probably actually produced much later (possibly into the 1970s).)
Publisher: Brooklyn, New York (U.S.A.): International Bible Students Association / Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Contents: New Testament • – Preface, Introductions, Alphabetical Appendix to the NT
Language: Greek and English
References: Chamberlin 557-5; Hills see 1792, 2402; Herbert see 1950;Taliaferro-BVE CN00130, Taliaferro-EELBV 7480.
Images: Title page
Comment: Hardcover, small octavo, 924 & (4) pp. Scripture text in double column: Greek on left, English on right side of each page. alternate readings in footnotes. Undated preface (2 pp) by B. Wilson. As introductory information on the NT 7 pp: History of the Greek text • History of English Versions • To the Reader • Plan of the Work • Signs of Emphasis • Letters & Pronunciation of the Greek Alphabet • Remarks on Grammar. The Alphabetical Appendix to the NT contains 52 pp.
Cover and title from an undated 1940's era copy of Wilson's Diaglott.
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