WILLIAM TINDALL

Frontispiece and title page of William Tyndale’s Revised New Testament of 1534, “deligently corrected and composed with the Greke.” He wanted ordinary people to have direct access to God and a Bible in the language of the people.

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It is impossible to over-praise the quality of Tyndale’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale writing. Its rhythmical beauty, its simplicity or phrase, its crystal clarity have penetrated deep into the bedrock of English today wherever it is spoken. Tyndale’s words and phrases influenced between sixty and eighty percent of the King James Bible of 1611 and in that second life his words and phrases circled the globe

We use them still: ‘scapegoat’, ‘ let there be light’, ‘the powers that be’, ‘my brother’s keeper’, ‘filthy lucre’, ‘fight the good fight’, ‘sick unto death’, ‘flowing with milk and honey’, ‘the apple of his eye’, ‘a man after his own heart’, ‘the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak’, ‘signs of the times’, ‘ye of little faith’, ‘eat, drink and be merry’, ‘broken-hearted’, ‘clear-eyed’. And hundreds more: “fisherman,” “landlady,” “sea-shore,” “stumbling-block,” “taskmaster,” “two-edged,” ‘viper,” “zealous” and even “Johovan” and “Passover” came into English through Tyndale. “Beautiful,” a word which had meant only human beauty, was greatly widened by Tyndale, as were many others. ~ Page 103

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