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SalaamCape TownKuala LumpurSingaporeJakartaHong Kong TokyoDelhi Bombay Calcuttaa    Madras Karachi  \n# THE AUTHOR'S PREFACETO THE ENGLISH EDITION\n\nTHE unselfish and laborious task of translating this bookinto English has been undertaken by Sir EdwynHoskyns.Partly owing to my insufficient familiaritywith the English language,and partly because my timehas been so fully occupied with other work,I have un-fortunately not been able to go through the whole ofthe translation in detail.Sir Edwyn has,however,laidbefore me a fairly long section of his work,and,aftercomparing it with the original German,I am persuadedthat he has performed his task with great skill.Hehas combined fidelity to the text with a considerablefreedom of presentation;and that is,surely,the markof a good translator.Though a translation,howeverskilfully made,must be in some degree a transforma-tion of the original,yet I feel certain that those whothink and speak in English will have before them whatI wished to say.I should like therefore to take thisopportunity of thanking him publicly.  \nIn its English dress my book is now set in a new con-text;and I cannot refrain from asking those who proposeto read it to bear with me whilst I make of them certaindemands which seem to me to be important.  \nI.I beg my English readers to remember that thisbook was written eleven,or,to be precise,fourteen yearsago.When I first wrote it—of the First Edition only thePreface now remains¹—it required only a little imagina-tion for me to hear the sound of the guns booming awayin the north.The man who sat writing his commentarywas then just a young country pastor,only vaguelyaware of what responsibility in ecclesiastical and scien-tific matters really means.Altogether ignorant both ofthe forces which were ranged against him and of thoseupon which he might call for help,he tumbled himselfinto a conflict,the inward and outward significanceof which he could not foresee.Nor was the situation  \n# vi THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION\n\nmaterially different when in I92I he rewrote the wholebook,and let it go out in its second and present form.When,however,I look back at the book,it seems tohave been written by another man to meet a situationbelonging to a past epoch.I Those who now read it—andthis applies,perhaps,even more ta English than to Ger-man readers—ought therefore to remember that theyhave in their hands what is,in fact,the beginning of adevelopment.They ought not to bind the Professor atBonn too tightly to the Pastor of Safenwil,nor to assumethat the present state of theological controversy inGermany can be directly gauged from this book.Whenthey come across opinions expressed in it which seem tothem to be open to very grave criticism and to raise verydelicate problems,they must not assume too readily thatthe author is unaware of them.Indeed,it is most im-probable that criticisms suggested by a first reading ofthe book will not already have been made by the authoror by his friends or by his opponents,and will not alreadyhave been reconsidered and rediscussed in his laterpublications.For English readers the book is thereforean introduction.It invites them to take a part,accord-ing as they are best qualified,in the further work whichhas opened up as a consequence of the publication of thiscommentary.  \n2.It is both an honour and a pleasure to me to knowthat already many English theologians are not whollyunacquainted with my work.This translation has beenpreceded by the publication in English of a collection ofaddresses and of some of my more occasional writings.I have had in my hands a number of books and articles—some good,some less good—which have been writtenabout me both in England and in America.I have alsobeen kept in touch with the endeav","cbCaiqzMOyGAk04j","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqzMOyGAk04j","pdf",8612113,136,"English","# The Author's Preface to the English Edition\n## Translation and purpose of the preface\n## Reader guidance on interpreting the 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