Claudius Buchanan, Christian Researches in Asia: with Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages (1811 ed. on IA as christianresearc00buch), p. 59

When the Scriptures speak to a heathen in his own tongue, his conscience responds, "This is the word of God." How little is the importance of a version of the Bible in a new language understood by some. The man who produ…