A biographer of Johann Gutenberg writes that

“He said to himself, from his earliest years that God suffers in the great multitudes whom his sacred word cannot reach. Religious truth is captive in a small number of manuscript books, which guard the common treasure, instead of diffusing it. Let us break the seal which holds the holy things; give wings to the truth, that by means of speech, no longer written at great expense by the hand that wearies itself, but multiplied as the air by an unwearied machine, it may fly to seek every soul born into the world!”

The invention of the printing press was but the breaking of one seal which “holds the holy things.” The aim of Bible translation is to further “give wings to the truth.”