The New Testament in Modern English - J.B. Philips

The New Testament in Modern English Revised Student Edition J.B. Phillips Preface to the Student Edition When I began the work of translating Paul’s epistles in 1941 I certainly had no idea either that my efforts would be published or that I should eventually translate the whole New Testament. I wrote for the young people who belonged to my youth club, most of them not much above school-leaving age, and I undertook the work simply because I found that the Authorized Version was not intelligible to them. My primary aim was not in any sense to compete with the version of 1611, but to communicate to young people inspired truths of which they were almost entirely ignorant. It is, then, with the greatest possible pleasure that I welcome this schools edition of my whole translational work. It is as though the wheel had come fuel circle after eighteen years and once more I find myself using modern language to communicate ancient truths to young people. Before ordination I had myself a shor