Massachusetts Bible Society
The Massachusetts Bible Society is an ecumenical Christian organization founded in Boston on July 6, 1809, and incorporated in 1810, making it the third-oldest Bible society in the United States. Its original mission was distributing Bibles and Testaments to people who lacked them, work carried out across the state by traveling agents and among immigrant arrivals at the Boston docks. The society published and circulated editions of the Scriptures, later operated Bible bookstores, and continues today as an organization promoting biblical literacy.
In the collection (2 works)
The New Testament, with Explanatory Notes (1864) with Sylvanus Cobb, Matilda H. Payson
Cobb's magnum opus, completed shortly before his death: the entire New Testament with a running apparatus of explanatory notes giving the Universalist understanding of every significant passage. Standing between Paige's multi-volume commentary and Hanson's later New Covenant translation (both in this collection), it was designed as the one-volume family Testament for Universalist households.
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The New Covenant (1884) with John Wesley Hanson, Universalist Publishing House
A Universalist translation of the New Testament. Hanson renders the text afresh from the Greek with critical and explanatory notes, correcting the renderings on which, he argued, the doctrine of endless punishment depended — most famously translating aionios as 'aeonian' or age-lasting rather than 'everlasting.' Whatever its scholarly standing, it is a remarkable artifact: a denomination confident enough in its reading of scripture to publish its own Testament.
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