Once he said to Magdalen, with a certain intonation of anxiety in his voice: "I cannot see what they think they benefit thereby.

Surely the tongue in which the Scriptures were written must be the best to study them in--for those who have learning to do so.

Translators do their best, but errors must creep in.

For the ignorant and unlettered we must translate, but why for such men as our friends here ?" "But the ignorant and unlettered are forbidden to read or buy the living Word ?" said Magdalen quickly.
"Yes; because they would not understand, and would breed all sorts of pestilent heresies.

The Scriptures are not of private interpretation.