The Confusion of Tongues
by Dr. S. H. Sutherland
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Never in the history of the English-speaking peo ples has there been such a rash of so-called new “ translations” of the W ord of God. The average lay man, instead of being helped by these translations, is becoming more and more confused. He asks, with increasing bewilderment, “ W hat does it all mean? Where w ill this end? What is the matter with the Bible I used to hear at m y mother’s knee and which I learned to read in Sunday school? Is it no longer acceptable? W h y must we obtain this or that trans lation to become real Bible students?” And the cry goes up: “ They have taken away m y Bible, and I know not where they have laid it!” The confusion is increased by the fact that even the so-called “ great scholars” are not agreed as to which translation is most acceptable. So great is the disagreement that there seems no longer to be any standard translation. Every man seems to be produc ing his own Bible as it seems good in his own sight. It all adds up to the sad fact that this generation will be known as “ the generation of confusion” so far as translations of the Bible are concerned. One looks in vain for evidence in this welter of claims for the new Bibles that anything is being accomplished for the spiritual uplift and edification o f the Christian public. Nor is there any proof that people are ob taining a clearer understanding of what the W ord of God actually says, much less of what it means! One unmistakably tragic fact is emerging. The translations receiving the widest publicity from pub lishers and from the liberal element in Protestantism are those which tend to downgrade the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and raise a question as to His spotless humanity and His eternal God head. To the extent that these new “ translations” are able to do this, they w ill negate the influence and authority the Authorized (K ing James) Version has exercised upon the average Christian. Evidence of this deplorable trend appeared in an Associated Press dispatch, dateline London, August 1962. It contains a quotation b y Professor Godfrey R. Driver, direc tor of the ten-man panel now working on the Old Testament, the N ew Testament having appeared a little over a year ago bearing the title, The N ew English B ible, N ew Testam ent. Dr. Driver is reported as stating that “ time-honored words like virgin , I Jehovah and leprosy, will disappear in the new ver-
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