P077 Synoptical Statement.

P077 Synoptical Statement.

3. Wycliffe’s Bible.

1. The translator an early Reformer, b. 1324, d. 1384.

2. Translated from the Vulgate.

3. The labor of many years.

4. Assisted by Nicholas de Hereford.

5. The first translation of the entire Bible into English.

6. New Testament finished in 1380.

7. Old Testament about two years later.

8. This entirely a manuscript Bible.

9. Not printed until the nineteenth century: Solomon’s Song, 1823; New Testament, 1848; entire Bible, 1850.

10. A revised translation made by John Purvey about 1388, and first printed in 1731. Pp. 19-21.

4. The Interval.

1. People mainly dependent on Wycliffe’s Manuscript Bible.

2. Council of Constance, 1414-1418. Wycliffe’s doctrines condemned and his bones ordered to be burned.

3. Council of Basle, 1431-1443. Supremacy of General Council asserted.

4. The Lollards, laboring and persecuted.

5. Scripture translation and use prohibited by Convocation.

6. The Bible still read.

7. Persecutions.

8. "Brothers in Christ." Pp. 21-24.

5. Tyndale’s Translations.

1. William Tyndale, b. 1484, d. 1536.

2. His work done chiefly on the Continent.

3. New Testament printed in part at Cologne, 1525.

4. Tyndale compelled to leave Cologne.

5. Went to Worms, where, in 1526, the work was finished.

6. In the same year the volumes secretly sent to England.

7. Their use forbidden by Bishop Tunstall.

8. Public burning May 4, 1530, in St. Paul’s Church-yard.

9. Use forbidden by king and bishops.

10. Pentateuch published in 1530.

11. Jonah in 1531.

12. Translations from Joshua to 2 Chronicles probably made about the same time.

13. Revised edition of New Testament in 1534.

14. Tyndale’s translations were all from the original Hebrew and Greek.

15. Tyndale a martyr; strangled and burned at Vilvorde, near Brussels, Oct. 6, 1536. Pp. 24-27.

6. Coverdale’s Bible.

1. Miles Coverdale, b. 1488, d. 1569.

2. Bible printed, in 1535, at Antwerp.

3. A controverted point, whether translated from Hebrew and Greek, or from other languages.

4. The latter probably the fact.

5. His five "interpreters."

6. The Zürich Bible his main dependence for the Old Testament.

7. The New Testament chiefly based on Tyndale’s.

8. The first printed English Bible.

9. Royal license given in 1537.

10. Prohibited in 1546, and all copies ordered burned.

11. Restriction removed by Edward VI., 1547. Pp. 27-31.