A real translation is in the main an interpretation. To the best of his ability he has tried to be exact and idiomatic. The initial difficulties in making a new version are started by the text used. At points where the text was in such disrepair that no conjecture could heal it, he inserted three dots. A longer line of dots in the poetical books indicated the original text was missing or it was in too much disrepair.
Some Hebrew terms have no English equivalent which corresponds to the original meaning.
Something is dropped if they pass from Hebrew to English. The text used for the New Testament was that of H. von Soden, whose critical edition of the Greek New Testament based upon unprecedented researches, appeared during the first decade of the twentieth century. Quotations or direct reminiscences of the Old Testament are printed in italics. The Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine.