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3 unusual facts about William Newcome


John 1:1

1808 “and the Word was a god” - Thomas Belsham The New Testament, in An Improved Version, Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome’s New Translation: With a Corrected Text , London.

Reflections on the variations, or inconsistencies, which are found among the four Evangelists

The inconsistencies in the Gospels of the New Testament found by Middleton were later listed as 11 in number, by William Newcome.

William Newcome

In his version he claims to give ‘the critical sense … and not the opinions of any denomination.’ In his notes he makes frequent use of the manuscripts of Thomas Secker.



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