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ADVERTISEMENT
To the Edition of 1796.
In the year 1767, the Society for propagatmg Christian Knowledge
published the first edition of the following translation of the New
Testament, into the Gaelic language. In the opinion of good judges,
the work was executed in the most faithful manner, and it has been
well received in every part of the Highlands. The author, however,
was himself sensible that it was susceptible of improvement, and in an
interleaved copy marked with hk own hand several corrections,
which in the present edition have been carefully made. With a view
to its further improvement, the translation has lately, in whole or in
part, been revised by gentlemen in difìèrent parts of the Highlands,
"who were every way qualified for that important task, and have freely
communicated their remarks to the editor. He has ventured, hov/-
ever, to make no alterations, but such as, on a critical examination,
appeared necessary and important, and such as the author himself,
fead he been in life, would have probably approved of.
In the original, some words not unfrequently occur, which may be
differently interpreted. In such cases, that signification which was
judged the most proper has been always adopted. The other mean-
iogs have, however, been in many instances given at the bottom ef
the page.