Thursday, February 8, 2024

Tyndale's Bible + Tyndale's influence in the english language


Tyndale Bible refers to the body of biblical translations by William Tyndale, the first English translation to work directly from Hebrew and Greek texts & the first mass produced English biblical translation. 

However, the term Tyndale's Bible is not strictly correct, because Tyndale never published a complete Bible.

Gospel of John
Prior to his execution Tyndale had only finished translating the entire New Testament and roughly half of the Old Testament.

Tyndale at the stake in Brussels, 1563

not many people know the amount of phrases coined by Tyndale that are part and parcel of the common-folk-English-language:

*a moment in time
*fashion not yourselves to the world
*seek and ye shall find
*ask and it shall be given you
*judge not that ye be not judged
*let there be light
*the powers that be
*the salt of the earth
*a law unto themselves
*it came to pass
*the signs of the times