The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J. B. Phillips

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Bombs fell??? sirens wailed??? and buildings collapsed as J. B.
I hillips talked about beatings??? stonings??? and shipwrecks.
What first-century Christians had to endure was not unlike
what twentieth-centurv Londoners had thrust upon them.
Descriptions of tile first-centuW experience??? however???
couched as they were in the regal English of tile sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries??? were not easy for twentieth-cen-
tury parishioners to understand. To remedy the situation???
the London vicar decided to try his hand at Englishing one
of the epistles. \"It s like seeing an old picture after it s been
cleaned???\" said C. S. Lewis about the result??? and he urged
the vicar to do more
Phillips s university education and pastoral experience
admirablv equipped him to be a translator. He was gradu-
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