12 SEPTEMBER 1935, Page 17

[To the Editor of Tan SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" If ever at

an Oxford Group meeting the language used by a speaker falls below the highest level of literary taste, I console myself with the reflection that, if conversa- tional Greek was good enough for the Apostles, conversational English should be good enough for me."

Dr. Streeter is like the lady who consoled herself by the reflection that, if the Authorized Version was good enough for St. Paul, it was good enough for her.

It is popularly supposed that the Apostle Paul did not use the Authorized Version, and that the Apostles spoke in Aramaic.—Yours, &c.,ACADEMICIJS.

P.S.—I think Dr. Streeter has not been reading Luther recently.