QUOTE : At the Transfiguration, when the divinity of Jesus is revealed to the apostles, his clothes and face glowing and shining in front of them, Peter stood amazed, scarcely able to speak. Tyndale had translated his stumbling words as the slightly odd, ‘Master here is good beinge for us’, which was perhaps a mistake, perhaps an attempt to convey Peter’s confusion. The King James Translators had him say simply, ‘Lord, it is good for vs to be here.’ Harwood, reaching high for propriety and perspicuity, managed to turn the apostle into a frock-coated, bewigged and slightly obsequious 1760s estate agent, exclaiming ‘Oh, sir! what a delectable residence we might establish here!