Abstract
A review of the new annotated edition and translation of Milton's Christian Doctrine, published in two parts as volume 8 of the Oxford Complete Works of Milton. Compared with the Yale prose, the most evident advantage is its bilingual recto-verso arrangement whereby each portion of the translation can be immediately checked against the corresponding segment of the Latin original.
John Hale initiated the project and then collaborated on the translation with Donald Cullington. They divided the labour, swapped and discussed the drafts, but since the latter part of Milton's treatise is increasingly filled with scriptural citations, it was Cullington, who, we are told, ultimately mastered the intricacies of the Junius-Tremellius-Beza Bible and so took prime responsibility for translating and annotating the quotations.
The work is not only newly translated, but also newly transcribed and fitted with an introduction, textual footnotes found on the facing pages, as never before, and commentaries in endnotes.