Saints Translation · Read, study, reflect
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A welcoming guide to reading, understanding, and returning to Scripture.
Saints Translation brings Scripture, source comparison, and study together with Vincent Melli’s photography, writing, and ministry resources. You are welcome to begin with a short reading or to study a passage in depth. There is no need to master the whole collection before opening a chapter.
Choose a starting path
New to Scripture
Begin with Seven Days with Scripture. Each day gives you a short passage, its setting, a question, a prayer, and a practical response.
Returning to regular reading
Choose a Gospel in the Bible directory. Read a manageable section and bookmark the chapter. A missed day need not become a reason to stop.
Ready for deeper study
Open the Study Guides, then move between the reading text, its source comparison, and the named evidence behind its notes.
Three ways to approach a passage
1 · Read the passage
The reading edition gives continuous Saints-priority English in the order of its selected source. Keep the surrounding paragraph and chapter in view. Read the book’s source guide when its numbering or brackets differ from a Bible you know.
2 · Compare the sources
The Comparison Library presents the available source readings and notes. Where both Hebrew and Greek witnesses are supplied, their English renderings are shown separately. Greek-only books and New Testament studies use their own source and reception format; an absent Hebrew counterpart is not supplied.
3 · Examine the commentary
Textual notes discuss wording. Reception notes identify how a named interpreter quotes, discusses, or uses a passage. An editorial connection suggests a way to read passages together. A proposed explanation for a difference remains a hypothesis unless the evidence establishes it. These are distinct kinds of help.
Try it with Jonah 3:4
First read Jonah 3 in context: a warning is proclaimed and Nineveh responds. Then open the paired reading at 3:4. Its Hebrew–English card gives forty days; its Greek–English card gives three. Keep the two readings distinct.
Next open the study of this difference. It preserves the complete cards before discussing wording, named Jewish and Christian interpretation, and possible causes. Ask three questions: What differs? What does the cited interpreter actually address? How certain is the proposed explanation?
Finally return to the chapter. Reflection on repentance and mercy may grow from reading it, while the origin of the numerical difference remains a separate question.
Seven divisions, one reading arrangement
The selected seventy-book collection contains the familiar sixty-six books plus 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, and Sirach. The seven divisions are this project’s Christian reading arrangement, not a canon shared by all churches. Their introductions explain how each division is read in relation to Christ and His people.
I · Law
Creation, covenant, deliverance, and a people called to holiness.
II · Judgement
Covenant life tested through history, injustice, suffering, and mercy.
III · Wisdom
Prayer, discernment, love, lament, and the formation of the heart.
IV · Providence
The prophets’ witness to judgment, mercy, restoration, and God’s faithfulness.
V · Salvation
The four Gospels: the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
VI · Discipleship
Acts and the letters: life, witness, and service in Christ.
VII · Glory
Revelation: faithful witness and the hope of God’s renewal of all things.
Barnabas and Hermas are read separately in the Scholarly Companion. The Saints Gospel is an editorial harmony, and chapter emblems are devotional aids. See About the Translation for method and scope.
A small glossary
Source witness
A particular textual tradition or edition represented in a reading. The book-specific source guide tells you which one is used.
Reception
A later author’s quotation, interpretation, or use of a passage. A thematic resemblance alone does not establish reception.
Pericope
A passage considered as a unit, such as a story, teaching, or poem. The site’s headings help you find these units.
Disparate
The project’s classification for a major difference in meaning or consequence, including legal scope, ritual requirement, agency, narrative assertion, theological portrayal, or cumulative force. It is one of five editorial comparison categories, not a judgment about a tradition’s worth.
Working study edition
A translation and study collection open to correction. Independent specialist review remains pending; the source and review register records the current position.
Bring reading into daily life
The Ministry connects study with Teaching, Preaching, Healing, and Leading. Saints Journey offers Vincent’s photography and writing. Begin with a passage and a photograph if a moment of quiet attention would help you return to the text.
Saints Translation is a Scripture translation and study collection by Vincent Melli. Working study edition; independent specialist review remains pending. Sources and review status.