sentences:  He was professor of biblical criticism at the University of St Andrews from 1919, and principal of its St. Mary's College from 1940, retiring from both posts in 1954.He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1949, and Vice-President of the British Council of Churches from 1950-1952.In the late 1950s he worked as a translator of the New Testament text for the New English Bible.