is Hebrew to the majority of ministers? Even in the Presbyterian churches they never open a Hebrew Bible from one year’s end to the other. I should like to see our students taught to read English, to know what English means, which only a small majority do. This is not an uncommon view. Richard Watson accurately reflects these sentiments when he says: Some seminary students spend a tremendous amount of time studying Hebrew, but in a small survey of pastors who have been in the ministry for ten years
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