In his preface, Blofeld says that he does not wish to be a second Wilhelm or Legge, nor does he wish to criticize those predecessors 'shortcomings. He says his intention was to create a version in vernacular language that would be readable for the general public and to provide what he thought was the correct interpretation for ambiguous passages. Better than Confucius?
布勞費爾德在序言中表示，他不想成為「衛禮賢或利雅各第二」，也不是要和先賢的譯本一爭長短，他的宗旨是用現代化的通俗語言給讀者大眾更簡明的解釋，例如有些原文很模稜兩可的地方，他便指點讀者，給一個他認為正確的詮釋。