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All texts are translations of translations of translations: Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. O Every person is a reader and translator, decoding or translating the text according to a different set of systems than that entextualised in the text, so the the idea of one correct reading is dissolved. If all this is so, then Paul is merely another reader, another translator, and his texts are nothing more than one more text in the pool of intertextuality.

In sum, if you want to understand the why, how and wherefore of Christianity, or more 21 22 Translating Religious Texts generally glimpse the individual writer in the grip of religious fervour, do not miss the writings of St Paul. Secondly, St Paul's writings are historically significant. Suffice it to say that Christianity remains one of the most significant intellectual influences in Western society and culture. Perhaps no one has played a greater role in contextualizing Christianity in Western society than St Paul.

16 More importantly for our purposes, however, it renders much less credible arguments than would attribute such subtlety of interpretation simply to the state of seventeenth-century English. If that were the case, then Tyndale's 'rebuke me of sin' would have 18 Translating Religious Texts sufficed. What we are looking at here is, I suggest, clear evidence of informed and educated personal choice. ' Though the selected translation of elengcho here is 'reprove' (again replacing 'rebuke' in Tyndale), the translators have also added 'convince' in the margin.