Things passing by are kept present by the memory, while current things are perceived. Expectation contains things in the future. This profound experience of time can be applied to our Bible Society meeting, held at an historic moment close to the end of the 20th century and on the threshold of the third millennium. In this instance of special time we return to the Bible, which we translate, distribute and read. This book has the Words of God who was in the past, is now and will be the same forever.
Misfortunes experienced by our country negatively influence Bible work.
Over the last two centuries, the PBS has developed or suffered parallel to the churches which it seeks to serve. This latter was edited in 1975 and is called the Warsaw Bible. Soon after this we began working on a new translation of the New Testament in contemporary Polish, according to the UBS dynamic equivalent translation principles which appeared in 1991. In 1997 the Polish biblical scholar Bishop Kazimierz Romaniuk, who is an honorary member of the PBS, published his new Bible translation for the Roman Catholic Church. The PBS handled this version, which had been in preparation since 1995.