Richard Whately Quote

'Never forget, gentlemen,' he [Whately] said, to his astonished hearers, as he held up a copy of the 'Authorized Version' of the Bible, 'never forget that this is not the Bible,' then, after a moment's pause, he continued, 'This, gentlemen, is only a translation of the Bible.'

to a meeting of his diocesan clergy, in H. Solly These Eighty Years (1893) vol. 2, ch. 2