Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Revisers followed Winer. We see the results of
their decision in the Revised New Testament.
To understand this a little more clearly, we
need to remember that the Hebrew language was
either deficient in adjectives, or dearly liked to
make a noun serve in place of an adjective. The
Hebrews often did not say a “strong man;” they
said a “man of strength.” They did not always say
an “old woman;” they said a “woman of age.” In
English we would use the latter expression only
about once where we would use the former many
times. Finding these Hebrew methods of handling
New Testament Greek, the Reformers translated
them into the idiom of the English language,
understanding that that was what the Lord
intended. Those who differed from the Reformers
claimed that these expressions should be carried
over literally, or what is known as transliteration.
Therefore the Revisers did not translate; they
transliterated and gloried in their extreme
literalism. Let us illustrate the results of this
method.
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