the cultural speck out of the eye of the biblical text: “principlizing obscures the fact that any articulation of the allegedly transcultural principles still reflects the culture of the translator.”26 (3) Principlizers must guard against thinking that their principles are purer than the Bible itself; even the statement of the principle is itself somewhat culturally conditioned, for interpreters are enculturated too.27 Clark acknowledges that a “soft” principlizing is necessary for evangelical theology.