If the church were exposed as frauds and thieves. People would begin to challenge the church's authority
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Of sins) or selling the release of loved ones from a church-manufactured Not possibly continue to get away with selling indulgences (the forgiveness In their own tongue, the church's income and power would crumble. No longer would theyĬontrol access to the scriptures. Man, English, would have meant disaster to the church. Having God's Word available to the public in the language of the common One risked death by burning if caught in mere possession of Tyndale's forbidden While in fact, they burned them because they could find no errors at all. The church declared it contained thousands ofĮrrors as they torched hundreds of New Testaments confiscated by the clergy, The more the King and Bishop resisted its distribution, the more fascinated Trickled through and actually ended up in the bedroom of King Henry VIII. They were burned as soon as the Bishop could confiscate them, but copies New Testament in the 1530's were often elaborately illustrated. Plans, and in 1525-1526 the Tyndale New Testamentīecame the first printed edition of the scripture in theĮnglish language. On Tyndale's trail to arrest him and prevent his project. Project was underway, causing inquisitors and bounty hunters to be constantly To flee England, because of the wide-spread rumor that his English New Testament Tyndale showed up on Luther's doorstep in Germany in 1525, and by year'sĮnd had translated the New Testament into English. Translate and print the New Testament in English for the first time in history. William Tyndale wanted to use the same 1516 Erasmus text as a source to In 1523, and another edition of the German German for the first time from the 1516 Greek-Latin New Testament of Erasmus,Īnd publish it in September of 1522. That was designed to martyr him, would translate the New Testament into In the months following the Diet of Worms Council in 1521 Of Contention to the Wittenberg Church door. Tyndale, as Luther declared his intolerance for the Roman Church’sĬorruption on Halloween in 1517, by nailing his 95 Theses Rome, with the curious exception of the famous 1522 Complutensian Polyglot Bible, even as the words of Pope Leo X's declaration that "the fable of Christ was quite profitable to him" continued through the years to infuriate the people of God. No sympathy for this “illegal activity” was to be found from Of the common people, whether that be English, German, or any other tongue. To maintain accuracy… and to translate them faithfully into the languages Original Greek (New Testament) and original Hebrew (Old Testament) languages
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Latin Vulgate had become, and how important it was to go back and use the The 1516 Greek-Latin New Testament ofĮrasmus further focused attention on just how corrupt and inaccurate the Text of the scripture to be produced in a millennium… and the firstĮver to come off a printing press. This milestone was the first non-Latin Vulgate Had managed to collate from a half-dozen partial old Greek New Testament Rendering of the text from the more accurate and reliable Greek, which he The Latin part was not the corrupt Vulgate, but his own fresh With the help of printer John Froben, he published a Greek-Latin Parallel In considering the experiences of Linacre and Colet, the great scholarĮrasmus was so moved to correct the corrupt Latin Vulgate, that in 1516, In that same year, 1517, seven people were burnedĪt the stake by the Roman Catholic Church for the crime of teaching their Of Hus had come true! Martin Luther went on to be the first person to translate and publish the Bible in the commonly-spoken dialect of the German people a translation more appealing than previous German Biblical translations. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs records that Of the Roman Catholic Church) into the church door at Wittenberg. Words of John Hus were that, “ in 100 years, God will raise upĪ man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed.” Almost exactlyġ00 years later, in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his famousĩ5 Theses of Contention (a list of 95 issues of heretical theology and crimes Wycliffe’s manuscript Bibles used as kindling for the fire. Hus was burned at the stake in 1415, with Of the Roman church that threatened anyone possessing a non-Latin Bible
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To read the Bible in their own language, and they should oppose the tyranny Actively promoted Wycliffe’s ideas: that people should be permitted