ideas and their verbal expression in the minds of the individual authors. Envisaging inspiration as primarily a direction of a person’s mental conceptions means that God’s word is translatable. If inspiration applies to the original words of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, then it means that those words alone are the divine revelation. That would inescapably mean that our English Bibles are not the actual words of God, but a mere translation of them into English. Such a view of inspiration is explicitly