A discussion between two modern translators,
E. V. Rieu, Litt.D. and the Rev. J. B. Phillips
Dr. Rieu, editor of the Penguin Classics, has recently added to the Classics his own transition of the Four Gospels; he was already known as a vivid translator of Homer The Rev. J. B. Phillips, Vicar of St John's, Redhill, who has made a translation of the letters of rhe New Testament, Letters to Young Churches, has recently added to this a new translation of the Gospels. In the prolamine the two translators discuss the principles on which they worked in translating the Gospels.