The Minister and His Greek Testament

From "The Minister and His Greek New Testament," originally published in The Presbyterian 88 (February 7, 1918), Machen speaks pretty straightforwardly about the decline of Greek among ministers:

The widening breach between the minister and his Greek Testament may be traced to two prinicipal causes. The modern minister objects to his Greek New Testament or is indifferent to it, first, because he is becoming less interested in his Greek, and second, because he is becoming less interested in his New Testament.

—J. Gresham Machen, Selected Shorter Writings (Phillipsburg: P&R, 2004), 210.