George Campbell, answered from the texts and cited to the page.
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.123
Yet "will any one say, that these critical inquiries, which in a critical exercise on the passage would be very proper, 1 say not, necessary, but any wise conducive to the illustration of this simple proposition, God knoweth all things? And if so, there can be no unity in the subject, nor simplicity in the performance, in which things so diverse are junv- bled together.Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence, pp. 439–440
I proceed now to consider what is properly called elocution, or what regards the expression or enunciation of the sentiments by language. The word has sometimes of late been less properly used for pronunciation. Let it be observed, that I here always mean by it, all that regards the enunciation of the thoughts by language.Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence, pp. 296–297
The faithfulness'of Moses, as mentioned both here and in the Pentateuch, had often appeared to me foreign from the scope of the context, which related in both places solely, to the excellency of the office, not to the worthiness of the officer. At the same time I did not see how mi-os could be translated otherwise than faithful.Lectures on Systematic Theology and Pulpit Eloquence, p. 168
Practised in a translation undertaken precisely because the received version had ceased to be understood in some places.