THE

NEW TESTAMENT:

THE AUTHORISED ENGLISH VERSION;

WITH INTRODUCTION, AND VARIOUS READINGS
FROM THE THREE MOST CELEBRATED MANUSCRIPTS
OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK TEXT.

BY

CONSTANTINE TISCHENDORF.

TAUCHNITZ EDITION, VOLUME 1000.

LEIPZIG: BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1869.

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INTRODUCTION,

BY

CONSTANTINE TISCHENDORF.

To place the glorious works which adorn the

d and America within reach of the readers of oth
e aim of the noble originator of the “Tauchnitz
selecting the Word of God as recorded by the
sandth volume of the series, he has chose
ate crown for such a structure of human genius
is early as the reign of Elizabeth, the English nati
stborised translation, executed by the Bishops
Z of Archbishop Parker; and this, half a centu
1611, was revised at the command of James
¿y of learned divines, and became the present

It is the New Testament portion of this ve the thousandth volume of the Tauchnitz Collection! was on the Greek text at that time accepted by cans, and translated with scholarship and conscien version of the New Testament has deservedly t % of great reverence, and a truly national treas Church. The German Church alone possesses Testament a treasure of similar value.

the Greek text of the apostolic writings, since

century,

has suffered

many a mischance at th

ho have used and studied it. th