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By the Rt. Revd. Anthony Burton medieval worlds that now has the last tracker organ in Nova 2 The Revd. Dr. Robert Crouse, an international following. Scotia, installed it in his tiny Pbsc Annual one of the most influential rural church and started a General Meeting Canadian theologians of his Many of his students baroque concert series that has generation, died Jan. 15 in discovered in themselves attracted musicians to summer 3 his rural childhood home on a vocation to holy orders. concerts for 47 years. About The PBSC – 25 Crouse Road, Crousetown, His sermons continue to be the same time he started a Years On , where his family a touchstone for preachers university choir that continues had lived for more than 200 around the world. For all to flourish. 7 years. He was 80. that, it was neither his Bible Translation academic career nor his Later he would help found in Eastern He had left the house tireless voluntary service to an annual theological Malaysia 70 years before to attend the Church that set him apart conference, an academic King’s Collegiate School journal, and a publishing in Windsor, Nova Scotia, house, all of which survive where he would later be him. He gave popular judged the most brilliant talks on theology as it was student in its 263- embodied in the church year history. Academic architecture of Europe, distinction followed, which he loved to explore, with degrees from King’s, camera in hand. In his Tübingen, Toronto, and idyllic garden he cultivated Harvard; and teaching 129 varieties of roses, and posts at the universities a vast collection of herbs of Harvard, Toronto, and rare plants from which Bishop’s (Lennoxville), and he would produce for his Dalhousie. He taught for friends salads of 30 or more 32 years at King’s College. ingredients.

A world authority on The Revd. Dr. Robert Crouse His roommate at Harvard Augustine and Dante, was Tom Lehrer, who wrote he was in great demand from his generation. A master “The Vatican Rag” and set the internationally as a lecturer. without a masterpiece, it was Periodic Table of Elements to For many years he served his personality that affected so song. Crouse shared this sense as the first non-Roman deeply those who knew him. of fun. With encouragement Catholic visiting professor (and his friends encouraged at the Augustinianum of the He was a quiet, somewhat him often) he would oblige Pontifical Lateran University shy man with a deep, with a comic ditty or incorrect in Rome. With James Doull he smoky voice, a wide range old anthem like the “Maple established a school of thought of interests, a great depth of Leaf Forever”. concerning the theological knowledge, and a twinkling, mischievous wit. He rescued tradition of the ancient and – Continued on page 2

Visit our web site: www.prayerbook.ca Easter 2011 The Prayer Book Society of Canada Newsletter In Memoriam – Continued from page 1 that piety, liturgy, and philosophy In a dissolving civilization he was an depend on each other. Philosophy unmovable force for stability, prophetic He had a great gift for friendship. To would be abstract without liturgy: in his determination to refocus the children he was comfortable as an liturgy put before the mind of the Church he loved on things heavenly old sweater, to those who sought him worshiper authorized images to be and eternal. When he preached at my out for spiritual counsel he was the employed by the Holy Spirit in the consecration, he spoke of Gregory the kindliest of fathers, to his students he soul. Great: “In the midst of the unsteady was a velvet hand in a velvet glove — flow of time,” said Gregory, “the man invariably merciful on those whose His home was famous for its hospitality, of God knows how to keep steady the essays came to him late. wonderful food, wine and conversation. steps of his mind” (Moralia in Job, xxxi,

But most of the time it was effectively a 28, 55). But just how is that possible? The whole was greater than the sum hermitage, without telephone, internet, I think the Venerable Bede penetrated in this man of many parts. It was television or radio: carved over the the secret of it, when he reported how the interrelation of those parts that mantelpiece were the Latin words Gregory, “amid the incessant battering inspired people to want to be around St. Bernard chose for his monasteries: of worldly cares,” strove to be “fastened, him. While uncommonly rooted in “The solitary place shall be glad, the as by the cable of an anchor, to the one place, his primary community was desert shall rejoice and blossom as the peaceful shore of prayer” (Historia neither Crousetown, nor the Canadian lily … and a highway shall be there and ecclesiastica, II, I). Church, nor the a way, and it shall be called the way of but the Church throughout time. One holiness” (Isa. 35:1-9). Happily an increasing quantity of had a sense that as he celebrated the Robert Crouse’s writing is appearing Eucharist the entire spiritual world A contemplative, Crouse understood online to inform and bless generations opened up before him. Paradoxically that material things conceal in their to come, and I hope that much that is it was exactly this relation to the depths a sign of their divine origin. unpublished will now be gathered and Church catholic that rooted him to his His contemplative life was the hidden receive the public attention it deserves. particular community, denomination wellspring in him to which so many and theological tradition. were instinctively drawn. His old (The Rt. Revd. Anthony Burton is the colleague Wayne Hankey, to whom I He was not the kind of Anglo-Catholic rector of the Church of the Incarnation, owe some of these observations, wrote who would set aside the insights of the Dallas, Texas. This article originally on his passing: “No student of his ever Reformation, but saw them as necessary appeared in “The Living Church”, January ceases to hear him and so to walk in the moments under the providence of God 28, 2011.) presence of the Logos”. for Christian theology. He understood

PBSC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting of the Prayer Book Society of Canada will be held on Saturday, June 25, 2011, at St. George’s (Round) Church in Halifax, beginning at 2:00 PM. The annual Chairman’s and Treasurer’s reports will be presented, and the meeting will elect up to fifteen Councillors to serve as members of the National Council alongside the officers and the branch chairmen. The meeting will conclude with Evensong at 4:00 PM.

Nominations are invited for the positions of National Chairman, Vice-Chairmen, Treasurer, Membership Secretary and Recording Secretary. Nominations for these positions must be received by the end of April, since these officers are elected by the branch chairmen prior to the AGM. Nominations are also invited for the positions of Councillor and Honorary President, and these may be either submitted beforehand or presented at the AGM. Nominees for all positions must be members of the PBSC, and nominations require a mover and a seconder, both of whom must also be members of the PBSC. Nominations are to be sent to the national Recording Secretary, Mr. Ronald Bentley, at 737 Hot Springs Way, Gloucester, , K1V 1W8. E-mail: [email protected].

2 Visit our web site: www.prayerbook.ca The Prayer Book Society of Canada Newsletter Easter 2011 The PBSC – 25 Years On By Desmond Scotchmer Bartholomew’s Church in Toronto, the (BAS p.10); “theology as the statement I am sitting down to write this with two Revd. Ken Scott, a retired clergyman of the Church’s belief is drawn from events on my mind: one is the founding who had helped found Royal St the liturgy”. It followed, then, that the of the Prayer Book Society of Canada, George’s School in Toronto, and Jack purpose of the introduction of the BAS, 25 years ago, the other the recent death Webb, a retired school principal. Out since it involved such radical change to of the Revd. Dr Robert Crouse. of their own pockets, they had put liturgy, must also be to change doctrine! up the money for a series of excellent Beginnings lectures on the Book of Common In the BAS, the relationship between The origins of the PBSC are, of course, Prayer at St Paul’s Bloor Street, Toronto. church and Scripture is radically connected deeply with the arrival of And so it was in January 1986 that reinterpreted, with the Scriptures the Book of Alternative Services. I I sat down with four others at the becoming no more than “a repository of remember clearly the first time I picked Faculty Club, to the Church’s symbols of life and faith”. up a copy of the book: a cursory glance organize an infant Prayer Book Society The implication is clear: as no more through it filled me with alarm. It was of Canada. Ken Scott became our first than a “repository” of “symbols”, what clear to me that the book was intended President, Jack Webb our first Treasurer, was regarded by previous generations to re-shape , and I didn’t Wayne Hankey our Vice President of Anglicans (indeed, by orthodox much like what I saw. I expressed my and theological advisor, Fr Greene our Christians everywhere, and in all ages) concerns to church-going friends, and chief gadfly and cheerer-on. I became as being definitive, is really no more to my clergy. I was astonished to find the first General Secretary, though at than a resource of imagery and symbol, almost everywhere the same response: the time I had no idea at all what a elements of which can be retrieved blank amazement, even outrage that I “General Secretary” was, let alone what individually or severally, rearranged, could be as obtuse and reactionary as to one should do. and restructured to conform to question the New Directions on which contemporary ways of thinking. What’s the Anglican Church was set. The five of us were very different more, liturgy and doctrine can and people, high church and low church, should change and shift with the times: However, on my trip home to Ottawa old and young, academic and non- “it is consequently vital that [liturgy] for Christmas, I visited an old friend academic, lay and clergy, yet it was wear the idiom, the cadence, the world- from High School; he put me in contact obvious to all of us that the new book view, the imagery” of the passing age with a friend of his, a graduate student had little if any connection with (BAS, p. 10). at Oxford, also home for Christmas. classical Anglican norms, and was an The three of us met over beer and pizza attempt to alter not just the ethos of This is in sharp contrast to the Book in the Byward Market, on a bitterly cold Anglicanism, but its doctrine, that is, its of Common Prayer, where the status of and snowy evening in the last week in teaching. Chief among these changes the Scriptures as “God’s word writ” is December. “You must found a Prayer were its approach to Scripture, and the spelled out clearly and unambiguously: Book Society! Without delay!” my relation between Scripture, doctrine the Bible possesses both authority and new friend from Oxford urged. “There and the church. integrity. The new theology, with its are people you must get in touch with vague and airy talk about “symbols” at King’s College, in Halifax. In the Doctrinal Change at the and “imagery” and shifting world meantime, get together with anybody Heart of the Issue views, strips that authority and integrity who feels the same way.” The student The eyes of many Anglicans glaze over away. The Gospel, as something that from Oxford was none other than at the mention of doctrine, but it is is revealed and eternal, timeless and Tony Burton, later to be Bishop of important to understand this: doctrinal True, as something to be handed on Saskatchewan, and the people with change goes to the very heart of the unimpaired, is at the heart of classical whom he put me in touch in Halifax extended crisis of Anglicanism over Anglican theology. Indeed, it is the were the Revd. Dr. Wayne Hankey – the past three generations. Doctrine, essence of all orthodox Christian and the Revd. Dr. Robert Crouse. the BAS tells us, is to be found in teaching, from the Church Fathers liturgy: “liturgy is a reflective process onwards. What is being presented I had previously met, that autumn, in which doctrine may be discovered in the BAS is something quite Fr Robert Greene, Rector of St – Continued on page 4

Visit our web site: www.prayerbook.ca 3 Easter 2011 The Prayer Book Society of Canada Newsletter different. Clearly there was a profound and perfect Man, upon the Cross. This I have not changed that opinion. Dr disconnect between the BAS and BCP. is the essence of Christianity, it is what Crouse expressed it best: “the BAS starts Anglicanism was being stripped of its we read in the Scriptures; it is what the from the acceptance of contemporary essence and its core, and hardly anyone Church Fathers, the mediaeval doctors, culture as its standard, and reinterprets was noticing. and the Anglican reformers are all the Gospel in its light”. agreed upon. Yet it receives short shrift Initial Impressions in the BAS. And on top of everything, the prose Confirmed was just plain crushingly dull, insipid; And indeed, a closer study of the The worst, for me, was the falling heavily on the ear of anyone book revealed that initial impressions Introduction to the Funeral Rite. This who delighted in the robust and were correct: repentance and sin extraordinary document rambles on transcendent prose of the Book of are consistently downplayed, indeed with some anthropological meditations Common Prayer. Language, diction, marginalized: one could live one’s entire on the practices of our forefathers (as if and tone need to be appropriate to life with the BAS without ever having these have any relevance for Christian context. The lover does not address his to confess one’s sins. Indeed, sin in believers), and then states “For the truth beloved in the same way he addresses the BAS is viewed as being something is that we do not know the condition his buddies over a beer. Who would ask corporate and communal, rather than of the dead…and everything that we the boss for a raise in the same language individual: what does that say about say about them remains at the level of and diction that they use to speak individual responsibility? There is a symbol” (BAS, p. 567). I remember with the greengrocer? Surely, when marked shift away from the BCP’s turning in disbelief from the page when we address the “high and lofty One emphasis on the need for an inner I read these words. What type of a that inhabiteth eternity, whose name transformation of the human soul, book was it that the Anglican Church is Holy” a special form of language is to an outward emphasis on what the of Canada was putting in our hands? called for, one that reflects the sanctity Church does as a corporate community. Did not St Thomas, falling on his knees and splendour of God. It seemed clear Worship is centred on the Community, before the risen Lord, in one of the to me that Anglicanism had entered a what we do, rather than on God, and most vivid of all scenes in the Gospel, crisis: its defining characteristics were what He has done for our redemption utter the supreme expression of faith set being lost, and with it Anglicanism’s through the Cross. out in the whole Bible: “My Lord and Scriptural roots. my God”? Does this great moment of The Eucharistic prayers move the faith not affirm the reality of Christ’s Early years of the Society emphasis away from Christ’s atoning resurrection? Has Our Lord not These are the issues that we sought to death on the Cross: the word “cross” promised us that in his Father’s house raise in the earliest years of the PBSC. hardly occurs in the BAS Eucharistic are many mansions, and that he goes to There was another issue, too. The BAS prayers, the word “passion” not at all: prepare a place for us? Is this not central was introduced in a most appallingly indeed the Cross is reduced to but one to the Christian message to the world? insensitive manner, which caused an act in the history of redemption as We proclaim Sunday by Sunday that we immense sense of hurt and betrayal played out in Scripture, rather than its look for “the Resurrection of the dead, among many faithful Anglicans. In consummation and defining point. In and the Life of the world to come”. editorials, in articles, in sermons and fact, the authors of the BAS go as far as Mere symbol? I think not! addresses by clergy and bishops, above to attack the BCP for its emphasis on all, in the various “implementation the completeness, the finality, and the For me it was clear: the book was a sessions” for the BAS, we were efficacy of Christ’s death on the cross mere “dumbing down” of the eternal subjected to long discourses about as “mediaeval” (BAS pp. 178, 179). and unchanging truths of the Christian how inadequate, how poor, just how But the Christian Church has always religion, everywhere there was an plain “wrong” the Book of Common taught that in Adam all have sinned, attempt to soften the realities that Prayer was; and how reactionary, and and that God, in His holy wrath, is Scripture sets out before us: sin, death, foolish, and blind were those who angered by that sin, but in His holy judgement, the need for repentance, wanted to hang onto it. Frustratingly, love has taken that sin upon Himself, individual responsibility for our actions, the theology and the history put and paid the price that the law of redemption, the promise of bodily forward to substantiate these claims righteousness demanded, in the person resurrection and eternal life. In the 25 was usually debatable, sometimes even of his only Son, Jesus Christ, true God years since the introduction of the book demonstrably incorrect. Particularly

4 Visit our web site: www.prayerbook.ca The Prayer Book Society of Canada Newsletter Easter 2011 galling was the routine sneer at the was clearly going to be a grass-roots We started our first fundraising Prayer of Humble Access, derided as organization, founded from the bottom attempt, and called it the “Cranmer the “Prayer of Humble Excess”. We do up. It was exciting! Crusade”, arousing the wrath of not presume to come to this thy Table, another bishop, in one of the largest O merciful Lord, trusting in our own We tried very hard to make our voice dioceses in the country. He wrote righteousness, but in thy manifold and heard in a spirit of conciliation and an Open Letter to the Society. We great mercies…” To hear that prayer, charity. We made it clear in our Aims were “partisan”, “contentious and which spoke so closely to my heart and and Objectives that we were not against reactionary”, waging “guerrilla warfare” had played such an important part in liturgical revision as long as the new and “rearguard action” with a “lack of my own conversion held up to mockery liturgies reflected the theology of the Christian charity”. Most of all, we were was very difficult to bear. BCP, and as long as the BCP was still “pathetic”. available for those who preferred it. Implicit in all that was being said was But usually we were met with a curious We published the letter (PBSC the promise that the BAS would reverse mixture of contempt, condescension, Newsletter No. 15, March 1990), the decline of the Anglican Church by and outright hostility. and defended ourselves, quoting the bringing people back into the church. reference to the PBSC in the judgement The message to those who loved the Some dioceses refused to allow us to of the Supreme Court of Appeal BCP was clear: your spirituality is advertise in diocesan papers. We were of the Anglican Church of Canada irrelevant and out of date, and there forbidden the use of a church for our (meeting in Winnipeg to adjudicate the is no place for you in the new church first Annual General Meeting. We took validity of ordinations using the BAS) unless you change. To be inclusive, the matter to the Primate: the bishop recognizing “the hand of reconciliation you were to be excluded, unless you who had denied our request defended extended in the intervention of the changed! Prayer Book Society of Canada”.

From the beginning then, the PBSC The reaction was astonishing. had two thrusts: concern over doctrine Professors from Winnipeg and and theological change, and pastoral St John’s, from Waterloo and Halifax, concerns about the introduction of the came roaring to our defence, as did BAS and the denial of BCP services for many ordinary faithful Anglicans. We those who wanted them. published many responses in our next Newsletter. The former President of We organized, we advertised. I the Church Army in Canada wrote: remember typing out our Newsletter on “The PBSC is a remarkable grassroots a borrowed word processor, rushing off organization that has widespread to Kinko’s to get it copied, and folding Desmond Scotchmer national membership and support. and stuffing the copies by hand on his actions “You are subversives!” he The PBSC has arisen because of an Jack Webb’s dining room table (boxes hissed (as God is my witness, the word informed and concerned devotion and and boxes of newsletters, thousands of is accurate!), “You have subversive loyalty for the Church of which the them, and all the stamps to be stuck on intent!” I was infuriated, I lost my Book of Common Prayer is a precious individually, in the days before self- composure, I banged on the Primate’s and unique possession…” adhesive stamps! It took us two or three desk. “Subversive? Is it subversive to nights to do them all). worship God using the official liturgy of The incident helped put us on the map. our Church? If so, then we have come We continued to voice our concerns, People responded, letters poured in continued to grow, becoming the from St John’s and Joe Batt’s Arm, to a sorry state of affairs!” Primate and bishop backed down, and after that, second largest organization in the Newfoundland, Fredericton and Anglican Church of Canada, after the Halifax, from Delhi and Walkerville, even the doors to places like St James’ Cathedral in Toronto were opened Anglican Church Women. Taking our Brantford and Holstein and Toronto in cue from Dr Crouse, we were careful Ontario; from Winnipeg; from Calgary to us. But I have never forgotten the image of a bishop calling it subversive how we framed our concerns, stressing and Saskatoon and Regina; from always the importance of the doctrinal Kamloops and Victoria. Hundreds of to stand up for the inherited faith of the letters! I still have them, on file. This Church.

Visit our web site: www.prayerbook.ca 5 Easter 2011 The Prayer Book Society of Canada Newsletter norms of Anglicanism, and the need for This was a significant and important understanding of how God’s purposes faithfulness to Scripture. achievement, and preserves - for the work in the long, rather than the short time being at least - the Book of run. I remember once, when he was And it paid off. The retired Bishop Common Prayer intact. visiting here in Toronto, I mentioned of Calgary, Morse Goodman became how stung I had been by some our first episcopal patron. Later, Members of the PBSC can take pride, particularly virulent attack from some Archbishop Harold Nutter became our too, in the fact that the Anglican member of the Anglican hierarchy. Dr first Episcopal Visitor. We were greatly Covenant, designed to strengthen the Crouse merely said, said in his quiet, heartened when Dr J. I. Packer, one Anglican Communion worldwide, and measured, thoughtful way: “Oh, but of the most outstanding Evangelical bring refractory members into line, is abuse is good! It means they have taken Anglican writers, publisher of many a striking vindication of the positions notice. It means they are finding you a books on the faith and known around held by this Society since its founding. threat. Press on!” the world, consented to become one of Chief among these, is, of course, the our Vice Presidents. identification of the Book of Common Looking Forward Prayer as central to Anglicanism, and Looking around at the position of the Our Accomplishments vital to its continuing life. Back in PBSC in the Anglican Church in 2011, Looking back, after twenty five years, 1986, the common assumption was it’s difficult to foresee how things will I have mixed emotions. We have that the Book of Common Prayer had turn out. On the plus side, relationships achieved far less than we set out to do. been relegated to the scrap heap of between the Society on the one hand, Had our aim not been, after all, to recall history. and the clergy and bishops on the our Church to its full spiritual heritage, other are immeasurably happier than both Catholic and Reformed? Alas! I The Revd. Dr Robert in the days when we were denied use of cannot say we have succeeded there. Crouse churches, and dismissed as subversives. I began by mentioning Dr. Crouse. It We have seen where a theology which And yet, we did manage to accomplish is no exaggeration to say that the debt views doctrine as changing with the two things: first, we initiated a owed by the PBSC to Dr. Crouse is times leads: to a point where, in the theological debate, and second, we were immense. From the very beginning, words of the worldwide Anglican prime players in ensuring that the Book we took our theological and doctrinal Primates meeting at Lambeth, the of Common Prayer remains in place as bearings from him. Kind, grave, and very fabric of Communion is torn the official Prayer Book of the Anglican courteous, he always made himself “at its deepest level”, and the unity of Church of Canada. Without the PBSC, available, sharing his deep learning Anglicanism worldwide threatened. I do not believe this would have been and spiritual wisdom freely. To me, The Anglican Covenant, as I the case. About ten years ago, a friend, personally, he was a very much a mentioned, is a striking vindication of and a reliable source, then a seminarian spiritual mentor and guide, steadying the positions held by this Society since at Trinity College in Toronto, reported and encouraging. its founding, when it was profoundly that a classmate of his (in all innocence, unfashionable to hold them. apparently) had asked “Why does the I took over the presidency of the Prayer Anglican Church have two prayer Book Society after the first year, and And there are two great anniversaries books?” The answer (the professor was held that post for seven years. I had coming up, both noted by last year’s an avowed proponent of the BAS) took no great talent for organization, I did General Synod, and commended (no the class by surprise: “I’ll tell you!” not like the limelight, did not have less, by Synod itself!) for observation he said angrily “One reason, and one any specialized knowledge of Anglican throughout the church: the 400th reason only! The Prayer Book Society theology or doctrine, and was utterly anniversary of the Authorized (King of Canada. That’s why!” uncertain of what we should do, or how James) Bible in 2011 and the 50th to do it. But from the very beginning anniversary of our beloved 1962 At the last General Synod but one, Dr Crouse provided the Society, and Canadian Book of Common Prayer in the fact that the BCP was specifically me personally, with his spiritual and 2012. The opportunity is wide open excluded from a motion to further doctrinal guidance, offering the kind, for the PBSC to further its work. In revise the liturgies authorized for use thoughtful, steadying advice that can the immortal words of our beloved Dr in the Anglican Church of Canada was come only from deep learning, deep Crouse: “Press on!” due largely to the efforts of the PBSC. faith, a deep life of prayer, and a deep

6 Visit our web site: www.prayerbook.ca The Prayer Book Society of Canada Newsletter Easter 2011 Bible Translation in Eastern Malaysia

(As a heartening reminder of the Society of Malaysia and immediately of the English New Testament, which enormous energy that Anglicanism still I was enrolled in intensive Translation meant that the construction of many possesses in other parts of the world, here is Training in 1997. A linguist from the sentences ended up sounding rather an article contributed by Agatha Sissons, Summer Institutes of Linguistics also peculiar or even meaningless in Biatah. a parishioner at St. Olave’s Church, came to help out with the revision of The “Simanya Bauh” is now widely Toronto. Her father, Revd. Canon the Biatah old Spelling System and read in our Anglican Biatah Bidayuh Chambers Saden, and brother, Revd. Orthography. Hence in 2003, the new Parishes. Canon Gregory Chambers, the author Biatah New Testament (“Simanya of this article, are involved in a Bible Bauh”) was published; not a re-edition In 2003, my Dad, the Revd. Canon translation project in their homeland of of the one published earlier in 1963, Chambers Saden and his team had East Malaysia.) but the first edition of its kind with already been working on the Old Dynamic Translation. It is a faithful Testament, under the authority of the Biatah is the name of one of the ethnic rendering and the kind that makes the Diocese of Kuching. This was to be the groups of the Bidayuh tribe in Sarawak, words of the Bible sounds like God first ever translation into Biatah of the East Malaysia. Its dialect Old Testament. My Dad is also called Biatah. This had long been concerned ethnic group was the first about the spelling and to have been converted translation errors in the to Christianity by the “Payu Bauh”. In 2004, pioneer missionaries after my experience with from England in 1882. the Bible Society, my Dad Churches and schools and his team also came were built. Church under the supervision ministries and formal of the Bible Society of education came together; Malaysia. The next years priests and linguists all were a tough but happy played their parts in this time. The team settled Christian mission among down to five members, the people. The first alongside seven others Biatah Spelling System who were the reviewers and Orthography were and proof readers. produced for the purpose The main Biatah Translation Team. Left to right: Revd. Canon Through patience and of translating the Prayer Book Gregory Chambers, Mr. Tasim, Rev Canon Chambers Saden, persistence, our Biatah Bible and the New Testament into Mr. Jaid Parker, and Mr. Paul Suwing Translation Team managed to Biatah. The second edition submit our completed text to of the Biatah New Testament the Bible Society in 2006, and (“Payu Bauh”) appeared in 1963. himself speaking to us in our own since then until last month we were mother tongue. It is almost a pure still working on bits and pieces of the However, the “Payu Bauh” contained translation of the source language remaining work which included the a number of quite serious textual Greek, which was possible with special final typesetting check. God willing, inconsistencies and spelling errors. I Translation Software, taking the Revised the first ever complete Biatah Bidayuh myself discovered one in 1996 in the Standard Version (RSV) as the window Bible, “Buk Kudus”, will be published course of my Bible studies: Luke 8:32 to the original Greek, and Today’s at the end of this year or early next year. is translated as “. . . and they asked English Version (TEV) as the model him (Jesus) to enter them (swine)”! format. The team was guided by a I brought my finding to my Bishop Translation Consultant. The old “Payu who soon seconded me to the Bible Bauh” was in fact a literal translation

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