RM, I wouldn't go to hard as the catholics made it a death sentence for any one to read the bible bar priests and monks. So is it of any surprise that it was a catholic priest who discovered Gods name.
William Tyndale - Burned for Translating the Bible into English
William Tyndale believed that people in England should be able to read religious books - especially
The Bible - in their own language. Sixteenth-century leaders of the Church vehemently disagreed. So did the King of England -
Henry VIII - and
so did English law:
In England, however, under the
1408 Constitutions of Oxford, it was strictly forbidden to translate the Bible into the native tongue. This ban was vigorously enforced by
Cardinal Wolsey and the Lord Chancellor,
Sir Thomas More, in an attempt to prevent the rise of English 'Lutheranism'. The only authorised version of the Bible was St Jerome's Latin translation, known as the '
Vulgate', made in the fourth century and understood only by highly-educated people.
A scholar
fluent in eight languages, Tyndale came to believe that the teachings of church leaders were not always consistent with the Bible. Furthermore, he wondered what good it was for people to hear Biblical readings and church liturgies in Latin when the only language they understood was English. Tyndale decided he would translate the New Testament into English.
Like-minded people supported Tyndale's efforts. Working in secret, often outside his own country, he published
his New Testament - today worth millions of dollars - in 1525. Many of the
poetic phrases he used in his translation - "let there be light," "the apple of his eye," "the powers that be" and "eat, drink and be merry" - are still used today.
Not long thereafter, he was "befriended" by
Henry Phillips, a traitor who had always planned to betray Tyndale. After he was arrested in Belgium, near Antwerp, Tyndale was long-imprisoned,
ill-treated then executed. His alleged crimes were disagreements with the Church's teachings and his English-Bible translations.
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