It is the very last circumstance which the Priestly Code would have invented, when the time which could be conveniently spent upon a pilgrimage was too brief to suffer the custom to be Perpetuated.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
It is impossible to reconcile the idea of an intelligent and beneficent Creator with the belief that the wretchedness and degradation, which are the lot of such a large proportion of human kind, result from His enactments; while the idea that man mentally and physically is the result of slow modifications Perpetuated by heredity, irresistibly suggests the idea that it is the race life, not the individual life, which is the object of human existence.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
In such cases the earlier translator's blunders and omissions in describing his source were likely to be Perpetuated in the new rendering.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos