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 produces a translation of the Bible into a new language, (like Wickliffe, and Luther, and Ziegenbalg, and Carey) is a greater benefactor to mankind than the Prince who founds an Empire. For the "incorruptible seed of the word of God" can never die. After ages have revolved, it is still producing new accessions to truth and human happiness.
Claudius Buchanan — 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
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