{"agent_id":"campbell","agent_name":"George Campbell","slug":"pulpit-eloquence-and-translation","label":"Pulpit eloquence and translation: does the preacher's authority come from the text, and what does faithful rendering of it require?","topic":"Pulpit eloquence and translation","question":"Does the preacher's authority come from the text, and what does faithful rendering of it require?","position":"A translator's business is to render the sense and manner of his author into the idiom of his own tongue, not to reproduce the words. In the pulpit the same principle holds: the preacher's office is to convey the meaning of the text to the men actually before him.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"A translator's business is to render the sense and manner of his author into the idiom of his own tongue, not to reproduce the words.","n":[]},{"t":"In the pulpit the same principle holds: the preacher's office is to convey the meaning of the text to the men actually before him.","n":[1,2,3]}]],"texts":"*The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek* (1789), the preliminary dissertations on translation and interpretation; *Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence* (1807). Reception: the dissertations are an early statement of principles later standard in biblical translation; the Moderate pulpit's critics charged it with preaching morality rather than doctrine.","works":["*The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek* (1789), the preliminary dissertations on translation and interpretation","*Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence* (1807)"],"reception":"the dissertations are an early statement of principles later standard in biblical translation; the Moderate pulpit's critics charged it with preaching morality rather than doctrine.","status":"Practised in a translation undertaken precisely because the received version had ceased to be understood in some places.","era":"1719-1796","discipline":"Rhetoric","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"Yet will any one say, that these critical inquiries, which in a critical exercise on the passage would be very proper, I say not, neces- sary, but any wise conducive to the illustration of thi^ KJni pie proposition, God knoweth all things? And if GAMPRELL'S LECTURES. 269 SO, there can be no unity in the subject, nor simpli- city in the performance, in which things so diverse are jumbled together.","label":"Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence"},{"n":2,"work":"Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"In most christian congregations there are very few, if any, linguists. I do not say that in our lectures we ought never to mention the original or recur to it. Justice to the passage we explain may sometimes require it. Nor is it necessary, that our translators should be deemed infallible even by the multitude.","label":"Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence"},{"n":3,"work":"Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"I know^ it will be said, that when all a man's labour is employed in instructing the people of a country parish, to which there is little or no resort of strangers, propriety of expression is not a matter of mighty mo- ment, provided he speak in such a manner as to be intelligible to his parishioners.","label":"Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence"}],"answer":null,"siblings":[{"slug":"miracles-and-testimony","label":"Miracles and testimony: does Hume's rule for weighing evidence refute miracle reports, or does it prove too much?"},{"slug":"should-rhetoric-be-founded-on-the-science-of-the-mind-rather","label":"Should rhetoric be founded on the science of the mind rather than on the precepts of the ancients?"},{"slug":"what-makes-a-usage-correct","label":"What makes a usage correct: the practice of good writers, or the rules of logic, etymology and analogy?"},{"slug":"argument-and-passion","label":"Argument and passion: is moving the feelings a legitimate part of proof, or a substitute for it?"}]}