Title: Foxe's Christian martyrs of the world; the story of the advance of Christianity from Bible times to latest periods of persecution ..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Foxe, John, 1516-1587
Subjects: Martyrs Persecution Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., C. Foster publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Hebrew and Greek. And not only did he go back to theoriginal languages seeking for the truth, but he embodied that truthwhen found in so noble a translation that it has ever since beendeemed wise by scholars and revisers to make but few changes init; consequently every succeeding version is in reality little morethan a revision of Tyndales. It has been truly said that the pecu-liar genius which breathes through the English Bible, the mingledtenderness and majesty, the Saxon simplicity, the grandeur—un-equalled, unapproached in the attempted improvements of modernscholars-—all are here, and bear the impress of the mind of oneman, and that man William Tyndale. The New Testament was the work to which he chiefly devotedhimself, bringing out edition after edition as he saw anything to beimproved. Of the Old Testament he translated only the Pentateuch,the historical books, and part of the prophets. Later English Bibles.Only three years passed by, after Tyndales cruel death, and a great
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WILLIAM TYNDALE, TRANSLATOR OP THE ENGLISH BIBLE. IS STRANGLED 364 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. change had come over England. The Reformation gained groundamong clergy and laity. The king, who had openly quarreled withthe pope, no longer opposed the desire of his subjects for a peo-ples Bible. Myles Coverdale, the man who after Tyndale playedthe most prominent part of any in the history of the English Bible,was the first man to translate and publish the entire Bible in theEnglish language. Unlike his great predecessor, Tyndale, whose work was inspiredsolely by religious enthusiasm and self-devotion, Coverdales trans-lation was made by the order, and with the encouragement of others;his chief supporters being Sir Thomas More, and Lord Thomas Crom-well the minister of king Henry VIII. Coverdale was also a man ofvery different stamp from Tyndale. He had neither his ability norstrength of character, nor was he, like him, qualified by lifelong studyfor his task as a translator, and the di

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