October 7, 2008
KJV
William Tyndale, priest, + One, 1536
William Tyndale was determined to translate the Scriptures into English for the masses, but his effort was cat and mouse with the royals and the prelates at every turn. His life reads like a 16th century cloak-and-dagger story.
He escaped to Germany where he finally produced over eighty percent of what we call the King James Version. His work has been called “a well of English undefiled,” which makes me wonder how anybody ever understood it at all even then.
Perhaps he would have been quietly pleased to learn that over four centuries later the Associated Press would report that an American country preacher would burn a copy of the new Revised Standard Version at a Sunday morning service and say to the churchers present, “If the King James Version was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.”
For his reward, Tyndale was strangled to death on 6 October 1536.
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For my reward (maybe yours), my mail server went on the fritz yesterday making Tyndale a day late. — Lane
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