P024 A Short History of the English BIBLE.
P024 A Short History of the English BIBLE. In 1517 Luther published his ninety-five theses; and in 1521 he was summoned to the Diet of Worms.
Melanchthon, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Ulric Zwingle, Farel, and other reformers were in the field.
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V.
TYNDALE’S TRANSLATIONS; ESPECIALLY HIS NEW TESTAMENT.
William Tyndale, Born 1484,(1) Died 1536.
Principal Contemporaries: (Some have already been named in the preceding chapter, and are not repeated here.)
Popes: Innocent VIII., 1484-1492; Alexander VI., 1492-1503; Pius III., 1503; Julius II., 1503-1513; Leo X., 1513-1522; Adrian VI., 1522; Clement VII., 1523-1534; Paul III., 1534-1550.
Cardinal: Wolsey, 1515-1529.
Kings of England: Henry VII., 1485-1509; Henry VIII., 1509-1547.
Kings of Scotland: James IV., 1487-1513; James V., 1513-1542.
Reformers: In Germany, Luther, b. 1483, d. 1546; Melanchthon, b. 1497, d. 1560; in Switzerland, Zwingle, b. 1484, d. 1531; Farel, b.
1489, d. 1565; in France, Lefever, b. 1455, d. 1536; in England, Bilney, b. 1500, d. 1531; Cranmer, b. 1489, d. 1556; Latimer, b. 1470, d. 1555; Ridley, b. 1500, d. 1555.
Literary Celebrities: Colet, b. 1466. d. 1519; Erasmus, b. 1467, d. 1536; More, b. 1480, d. 1535; Warham, b. 1450, d. 1532; Linacre, b. 1460, d. 1524; Lilley, b. 1466, d. 1523; Grocyn, d. 1519.
Tyndale was born either at North Nibley, or at Slymbridge, near Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, 1484. About 1500 he went to the University at Oxford, in 1510 to Cambridge, drawn thither, as some suppose, to hear lectures on Greek from Erasmus. In 1521 he became a tutor in the family of Sir John Walsh, of Sodbury, in Gloucestershire.
It was while here that, in controversy with a learned divine, he uttered his famous prediction: "If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than the priests do."
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(FN1)This is the date given as probable by the best authorities, though the precise year is not known. Some place it as early as 1477.
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