Central Figure after a Pompeian Wall-painting of Dionysos

The Enthroned Sun-God and His Twelve Powers

"Behold, around mine own celestial throne
Are set twelve others, like a jewelled zone
Within the Realm that evermore endures."

THE

RESTORED NEW TESTAMENT

THE HELLENIC FRAGMENTS, FREED FROM THE
PSEUDO-JEWISH INTERPOLATIONS, HARMONIZED,
AND DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE AND PROSE

WITH INTRODUCTORY ANALYSES, AND COMMENTARIES,
GIVING AN INTERPRETATION ACCORDING TO
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY

AND A NEW LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE SYNOPTIC
GOSPELS, WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARIES

BY

JAMES MORGAN PRYSE

Φιλοσοφώτερον καὶ σπουδαιότερον ποίησις ἱστορίας ἐστίν
Poetry is more philosophical and more serious than history

-Aristotle

ILLUSTRATIONS DRAWN BY JOHN O'NEILL

SECOND EDITION

NEW YORK

JOHN M. PRYSE

LONDON

JOHN M. WATKINS

21, CECIL COURT, CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C.

Copyright, 1914, by

JOHN M. PRYSE, New York

Copyright, Great Britain

All rights reserved

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE.

PART FIRST. THE GENUINE PORTIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT,

WITH INTRODUCTORY ANALYSES, AND COMMENTARIES.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION TO THE ANOINTING OF IESOUS .

vii

3

19

THE ANOINTING OF IESOUS (RESTORED FROM THE SYNOPTIC

GOSPELS), WITH COMMENTARY

33

THE CROWNING OF JESUS (METRICAL VERSION)

152

SELECTIONS FROM THE FOURTH Gospel, WITH COMMENTARY

INTRODUCTION TO THE INITIATION OF IOANNES

239

249

THE INITIATION OF IOANNES (PROSE VERSION OF THE APOCA-

LYPSE), WITH COMMENTARY

INITIATION (METRICAL VERSION OF THE APOCALYPSE).

THE LETTERS OF PAULOS. INTRODUCTION.

LETTER TO THE GALATIANS

LETTER TO THE KORINTHIANS

LETTER TO THE THESSALONIKANS

PART SECOND. THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS, TRANSLATED INTO MOD-

ERN ENGLISH, WITH COMMENTS ON THE SPURIOUS PORTIONS.

INTRODUCTION

[[THE GOOD TIDINGS]] ACCORDING TO MARK

[[THE GOOD TIDINGS]] ACCORDING TO MATTHEW

[[THE GOOD TIDINGS]] ACCORDING TO LUKE.

GLOSSARY

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481

568

686

813

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