Epilogue
| HAVE often wondered what it would be like to experience the programme with a gnomic title of The Epilogue (BBC), though usually at 20 minutes
before midnight, I am in no receptive mood. I tuned in last week. It was much as I had expected: soupy uplift, with an organ going flat out on the Vox Humana, followed by a short sermon on a given text. The speaker quoted ftom Saint Matthew, and unfortunately for him, a passage I happen to know particularly well. It was, as if I were passing through a nightmare in which the whole corpus of English literature had been turned into Basic English. At the end of the passage I heard this: "Never worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will have worries of its own. The day’s own trouble will be trouble enough for the day." I rushed to The Book, and found the passage. ""Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself, Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." What dignity, what rotundity! And in the other, what. flatness, what
blankness! For the one has a majesty of utterance that is compelling, without in any way being obscure; the other is falsely "pi," gawky and misshapen. "Tf the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?" If the above is a sample of a new translation, where-
with indeed?
B. E. G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 22
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242Epilogue New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 22
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