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Tyndale

NOUN
  1. English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536)

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  • A wealthy, mysterious Englishman named Henry Philips arrived in the port and rapidly gained Tyndale's trust, and hence access to the Pointz household.
  • Tyndale could hardly have known Wyclif's version, which was never printed and was rare in manuscript, but his use of certain words, such as "mote, The Age of the Reformation
  • A year after his death, a complete Bible—two-thirds of which had been translated by Tyndale, the rest by his associate Miles Coverdale—was published by royal permission.
  • The first English translation to get into print was by William Tyndale, an admirer of Luther.
  • No honest critic able to read the koine original could resist the conclusion that Tyndale throughout transcends his proof-text original ms to a sublime degree. David Teems: The Other English William
  • Coverdale, Matthew and the Bishops' all end with the slightly bathetic "henceforth", but Tyndale has the simpler "any more" albeit following the musclebound "neither shall they teach to war", a phrase turned around by everybody else into variants of "neither shall they learn to fight". The King James Bible reconsidered | David Edgar
  • The "agent"—whose real sympathies lay with Tyndale—took the bishop's money, bought lots of the offending books, and sent them to the bishop, who duly burned them in public.
  • He begins with William Tyndale, whose English-language translation of the bible published in 1530 contained the first use of the term "scapegoat" and who then became a scapegoat himself when he was described by Thomas More as a "hell-hound" and blamed for the Peasants' War in Germany. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Mr. Campbell traces the word "scapegoat" to William Tyndale's 1530 English-language translation of the Bible. The Blame Game
  • Many of Tyndale's polemical writings still retain value. Christianity Today
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