Friday, March 15, 2019

...and a God was the Oracle (an 1800 Translation of John's Gospel)


As posted in The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England), Volume 88 1800

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John 1: 1—18 by Dr. John Hill.

At first was THE ORACLE; and the Oracle was with

2. THE DEITY; and A GOD WAS THE ORACLE: the same was at first with THE DEITY.

3. Through Him were all things made; and without Him was not even a single thing made that hath been:

4. In Him was life; and the life was the light

5. Of men: and the light shineth in the dusk; but the dusk comprehended it not.

6. There was a man sent forth from God, whose

7. Name was John: the same came for testimony, to testify concerning the light; to the end that

8. All, through him, might believe: (he was not that ]personage] The Light; but [he came] to testify concerning the Light).

9. That was the true Light, which, coming into the world, enligteneth every man.

10. He was in the world, and through Him the world was made; but the world knew him not

11. He came unto His own [home] and His cwn [household] entertained Him not:—

12. But as many as received Him, to them gave He authority to become children of God; even to them

13. That believe on His name: who were born, not of [peculiar] races, nor of fleshy will, nor of man's will, but of God.

14. And THE ORACLE became flesh, and sojourned among us (and we ourselves beheld his glory, a glory suitable to The Father's only genuine [Son]), full of grace and truth:—

15. (Jobn testified concerning Him, and proclaimed, saying: This is He of whom I spake; who, coming after me, hath been before me; for he was my PRINCE).

16. —And of His fulness have we all received; even

17. Grace surpassing grace: for THE LAW was given through Moses; but the Grace and the Truth [of THE GOSPEL] came to pass through JESUS CHRIST.

18. GOD no one hath ever seen: THAT SON, the only genuine, reclining on HIS FATHER'S bosom, himself expounded.

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