St Paul from the Trenches - by Gerald Warre Cornish - a translation by a soldier during World War I, of the New Testament books, I Corinthians, II Corinthians, and Ephesians chapters 1-4.Could we gat E.V.Rieu The four Gospels?
Cornish Saint Paul from the trenches?
Best wishes and may Gos bless us all!
johanseb
Gerald Warre Cornish (GWC) was born in 1874 at Eton, the son Francis Warre Cornish, the Vice-Provost of Eton College. He worked as a lecturer in Ancient Greek at Manchester University. When the First World War started he joined the British Army and achieved the rank of Major in the 6th Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry. Gerald was killed in action on September 16, 1916, aged 41 at Flers. On his body was found a small mud-strained copybook containing his translation of St Paul's Epistles, which included the two epistles to the Corinthians and the unfinished first four chapters of Ephesians. Gerald Warre-Cornish is buried at Thiepval at the Somme in France. His work was first published in 1937 as “St Paul from the Trenches” and it was reprinted several times up to 1948. In the preface John Sidney Brathwaite wrote that “No-one after reading this will be disposed to doubt the amount of thought and care that went to this very original rendering of the three Epistles.”
Digital Edition
These Trench Epistles were digitised with the help of MissionAssist in 2014. This digitised version of St Paul from the Trenches was translated in 1916 and first published in 1937, and is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS).
If you want the copy in e-Sword, please contact the British and Foreign Bible Society and make your request, and if they approve, ask them to provide the text and preface, and other copyright and printing details, in electronic format to Rick Meyers, at rick@e-sword.net so that this can be provided in e-Sword format, with their copyright, and permission. e-Sword runs on SQLite database format. Alternatively, they could provide it to you and you arrange for it to be placed on Bible Support, together with the authorization details from BFBS providing permission for it to be hosted here.
Added note: You can view this online from https://www.bible.com/versions/1047-gwc-st-paul-from-the-trenches-1916 Select GWC. From https://www.bible.com/bible/1047/1CO.1.GWC you can select the subsequent chapters by clicking on the > to the right.
Edited by Olaf Bacon, 24 December 2023 - 10:30 AM.
