Highlights of the Exhibition
The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection
at
Bridwell
Library
1996-2006
September 7-November 18, 2006
Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament
John Wesley. Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament. London: William Bowyer, 1755.
During 1755, when a period of poor health forced him to rest from itinerant preaching, Wesley began preparation of an edition of the New Testament with commentary. Wesley based his translation on the contemporary Greek text and commentary of Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687-1753), a Tübingen Pietist, and pioneer in Biblical exegesis. The copies exhibited here represent two distinct phases in the evolution of Wesley’s translation. One example is the finished text as it appeared in print in 1755. The other is something quite different – the proof sheets of the volume annotated by Wesley’s friends and colleagues, and Wesley himself. Wesley scholars have authenticated the Wesley inscription’s independently. Some of the most interesting notes appear here in Luke 23:34.
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