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Oct 6, 2021 · The English reformer, William Tyndale (1494–1536), was the first person to translate the New Testament directly from Greek to English. Tyndale was a priest and distinguished Oxford scholar who strongly believed that everyone should be able to read the Bible.
Oct 2, 2024 · William Tyndale, English biblical translator, humanist, and Protestant martyr. He believed that the Bible alone should determine the practices and doctrines of the church. He translated the New Testament and parts of the Old Testament into English before being executed for heresy.
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William Tyndale captured the heart and wealth of the English language and brought it into God’s service through Bible translation.
Oct 6, 2024 · William Tyndale was a graduate of Oxford, an ordained priest, familiar with Latin and other languages, and a wordsmith in his own native English. He became chaplain to Sir John Walsh and his family at Little Sodbury Manor about 1521, and it is probably here that he started to translate the New Testament from Greek into English.
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When Tyndale was 28 years old in 1522, he was serving as a tutor in the home of John Walsh in Gloucestershire, England, spending most of his time studying Erasmus’s Greek New Testament, which had been printed just six years before in 1516. Increasingly, as Tyndale saw Reformation truths more clearly in the Greek New Testament, he made himself suspe...
Four years later, Tyndale finished the English translation of the Greek New Testament in Worms, Germany, and began to smuggle it into England in bales of cloth. By October 1526, Bishop Tunstall had banned the book in London, but the print run had been at least three thousand. And the books were getting to the people. Over the next eight years, five...
What drove Tyndale to sing one note all his life? It was the rock-solid conviction that all humans were in bondage to sin, blind, dead, damned, and helpless, and that God had acted in Christ to provide salvation by grace through faith. This is what lay hidden in the Latin Scriptures and the church system of penance and merit. This is why the Bible ...
May 26, 2008 · In his Bible translations, Tyndale’s conscious use of everyday words without inversions, his neutral word order, and his wonderful ear for rhythmic patterns, gave to the English, not only a Bible language, but a new prose.
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William Tyndale was a 16th century English theologian and linguist who became the first person to translate and print a version of the New Testament in English. His translation drew directly from original Hebrew and Greek texts and included notes.
