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