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I am always impressed by the love for Greek shared by so many people especially in the US and Europe. The Greek original according to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the King James translation are published side by side in facing pages, co-operating for an edition that celebrates the original text of the New Testament, helping those who try to study, learn and enjoy this so important ancient and modern language.Ĭontrary to Elpenor’s Greek New Testament, this bilingual edition uses a smaller font size, in order to avoid expanding beyond the limit of two convenient volumes. The book is a delightful reference for what the late Byzantium church used for its liturgy.' Peter McGowan

This Patriarchal Text appears to be mid-way between the MT and Textus Receptus. To this extent, it is useful to have direct access to the traditional text of one significant section of Christianity and for the preservation of the Greek New Testament text, this is the most important part - the Greek Orthodox Church. ' This Beautiful book presents the Eastern Orthodox Church's traditional or patriarchal Greek text of the New Testament. I trust Christians in the Nicene age to be better judges of the original than Americans in the twentieth century.' Thomas E. For instance, a recent Greek edition in the west is done with the overt assumption that changes in the ancient text were done by men of good will, when the fathers repeatedly have written that there were intentional corruptions which had crept in as early as the first few centuries.

As a Protestant Christian I delight in honoring my Orthodox friends who have preserved this text when the entire western church had defaulted to a translation, Jerome's Latin Vulgate, and now has widely accepted theories which do not accord with the historical record we have. Instead of one determined by a vote of 5 or 6 scholars, this text is the one commonly received by the Greek and Russian churches from time immemorial. ' As one who has not bought into the conventional wisdom concerning 'recovery of the lost text,' I find it refreshing that the Eastern Church has available a Greek text which, while probably not perfect, is as close as we may come to the original today.

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