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The Story of the English Bible

The Story of the English Bible. Mesa Church of Christ October 2012. O.T. – written in Hebrew with some Aramaic N.T. – written in Greek Septuagint (LXX) – Greek translation of O.T. from 3 rd century B.C.

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The Story of the English Bible

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  1. The Story of the English Bible Mesa Church of Christ October 2012

  2. O.T. – written in Hebrew with some Aramaic N.T. – written in Greek Septuagint (LXX) – Greek translation of O.T. from 3rd century B.C. Old Latin (Vetus Latina) – Latin translation of LXX and N.T. in first few centuries A.D. Vulgate – Jerome’s Latin translation of Bible from original languages in late 4th century A.D.

  3. Traditional Apocrypha 1 & 2 Esdras Tobit Judith Additions to Esther Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus (aka Sirach) Baruch Letter of Jeremiah Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men Susanna Bel and the Dragon Prayer of Manasseh 1 & 2 Maccabees Oxford Annotated Apocrypha 3 & 4 Maccabees Psalm 151

  4. Old English/Anglo-Saxon • Aldhelm – Psalms (beginning of 8th century) • Venerable Bede – Gospel of John (early 8th century) • King Alfred the Great – Ten Command-ments, parts of Exodus 21-23, and Acts 15:23-29 (9th century)

  5. Old English/Anglo-Saxon • Aldhelm – Psalms (beginning of 8th century) • Venerable Bede – Gospel of John (early 8th century) • King Alfred the Great – Ten Command-ments, parts of Exodus 21-23, and Acts 15:23-29 (9th century) • Lindisfarne Gospels (mid-10th century) • Rushworth Gospels (late-10th century) • Wessex Gospels (late-10th century)

  6. John Wycliffe • Sometimes spelled Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclif, or Wicliffe • Lived from 1324 – 1384 • “Morning Star” of Protestant Reformation

  7. John Wycliffe “Those heretics who pretend that the laity need not know God's law but that the knowledge which priests have had imparted to them by word of mouth is sufficient, do not deserve to be listened to. For Holy Scriptures is the faith of the Church, and the more widely its true meaning becomes known the better it will be. Therefore since the laity should know the faith, it should be taught in whatever language is most easily comprehended. . . . Christ and His apostles taught the people in the language best known to them.”

  8. Thomas Arundel “This pestilent and wretched John Wycliffe, of cursed memory, that son of the old serpent . . . endeavored by doctrine of Holy Church, devising – to fill up the measure of his malice – the expedient of a new translation of the Scriptures into the mother tongue.”

  9. William Tyndale • Born around 1494 • M.A. degree from Oxford 1515 • Luther nails 95 theses to door in 1517 • Luther publishes N.T. in German in 1522 • Tyndale publishes N.T. in English in 1526

  10. David Daniell “At bottom, More asserts that Tyndale's offense has been to give the people Paul in English, and to translate key words in their Greek meanings as 'senior', 'congregation', 'love', and 'repent', instead of the Church's 'priest', 'church', 'charity', and 'do penance'.”

  11. William Tyndale “I believe, most excellent Sir, that you are not unacquainted with the decision reached concerning me. On which account, I beseech your lordship, even by the Lord Jesus, that if I am to pass the winter here, to urge upon the lord commissary, if he will deign, to send me from my goods in his keeping a warmer cap, for I suffer greatly from cold in the head, being troubled with a continual catarrh, which is aggravated in this prison vault. A warmer coat also, for that which I have is very thin. Also cloth for repairing my leggings. My overcoat is worn out; the shirts also are worn out. He has a woolen shirt of mine, if he will please send it. I have also with him leggings of heavier cloth for overwear. He likewise has warmer nightcaps: I also ask for leave to use a

  12. William Tyndale (continued) lamp in the evening, for it is tiresome to sit alone in the dark. But above all, I beg and entreat your clemency earnestly to intercede with the lord commissary, that he would deign to allow me the use of my Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Grammar, and Hebrew Lexicon, and that I might employ my time with that study. Thus likewise may you obtain what you most desire, saving that it further the salvation of your soul. But if, before the end of winter, a different decision be reached concerning me, I shall be patient, and submit to the will of God to the glory of the grace of Jesus Christ my Lord, whose spirit may ever direct your heart. Amen.”

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