“We must come to understand incarnational translation, which is to say, understanding translation as interpretation. There are two ways an interpreter can fail. One is through assuming that the languages he works with are like mathematics and that any deviance from that standard should be considered as a failing. This is the way of the man who wants to get the three Latin words vir feminam amat into three English words and wants them to be the same three English words every time. Whenever he works the same math problem he wants to get the same answer. The other fellow fails because he is too loose, rendering those words as a logging truck hits an elk” (The Paideia of God, p. 98).
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