The Word Worth Dying For: William Tyndale, the Afflictions of Christ, and the Making of the English Bible
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William Tyndale's life was defined by a single-minded devotion to translating the Bible into English, described by Stephen Vaughan as always singing one note. Tyndale was willing to submit to royal authority and any punishment if the king would only permit a plain English translation of the Scriptures to circulate among ordinary people. Since unauthorized translation was banned under the Constitutions of Oxford, Tyndale fled to the Continent in 1524. In 1526, he completed…
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