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William L. Lorimer. The New Testament In Scots

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THE NEW TESTAMENT IN SCOTS

William Laughton Lorimer (1885–1967) was born at Strathmartine near Dundee and spent most of his life on his native East Coast as a teacher and a classical scholar. In the years before and after the Great War he lectured in Greek at St Andrews University, going on to become a Reader in Humanity at University College, Dundee (1929–53), before returning to St Andrews as Professor of Greek for three years until his retirement in 1955. Engaged with spoken Scots since his boyhood, he made many major contributions to The Scottish National Dictionary in his later years. It was also at this time that he started to translate the New Testament from Greek into Scots. He spent the last ten years of his life at this task, but he died before his final revisions could be made. It was his son Robin L. C. Lorimer who completed the revisions and prepared the manuscripts for publication.

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15 ABOUT THAT TIME Pharisees an Doctors o the Law frae Jerusalem cam an speired at Jesus, “What for div your disciples gang contrair tae the auld weys an hants o our forebeirs? They washna their haunds afore a diet!”

“An ye,” qo he, “what for gae ye contrair til the commaundment o God wi up-haudin your ‘auld weys an hants’? God said, ‘Honour your faither an your mither’, an again, ‘Lat him at bans faither or mither be execute tae the deid’. But ye say, ‘Gin a man says til his faither or his mither, “What I wad hae waired on your throubeirin is aa dedicate tae God”, syne he isna awin faither or mither a haet or rissom mair.’ That gate ye hae cassed an annulled God’s commaund wi your ‘auld weys an hants’. Hýpocrítes at ye ar, weill prophesíed Isaiah anent ye, whaur he says:

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