Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . 271 JOHN WYCLIF 273 devoted himself to the congenial task of turning his LatinVulgate into the EngHsh of his time. So did he travel on lifes common wayIn cheerful lowliness, and yet his heartThe mightiest duties on itself did lay. He was not trying his prentice hand exactly, havingmade a beginning no earlier than 1356, when he translatedthe Revelation of St. John, with a short Commentaryof his own, which was several times revised. The occasion. WycLlFFE. iFiiiiu .HlUtiita Hti>tOi-j of KiijIiminUliirc/ of this w
Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . 271 JOHN WYCLIF 273 devoted himself to the congenial task of turning his LatinVulgate into the EngHsh of his time. So did he travel on lifes common wayIn cheerful lowliness, and yet his heartThe mightiest duties on itself did lay. He was not trying his prentice hand exactly, havingmade a beginning no earlier than 1356, when he translatedthe Revelation of St. John, with a short Commentaryof his own, which was several times revised. The occasion. WycLlFFE. iFiiiiu .HlUtiita Hti>tOi-j of KiijIiminUliirc/ of this was a fearful pestilence, which swept away vastmultitudes, and, combined with other causes, produceda general gloom, Oxford being more wretched than mosttowns.* He had also formerly translated the Gospels,with an Exposition, the notes being chiefly from theFathers. Doubtless he was assisted by a circle of friends, but howfar their participation went it is not easy to say. * The Last Age of the Church, a tract for the times, may be wronglyattributed to him. 274 OUR OWN ENGLISH BIBLE Forshall and Madden, the recent and laborious editorsof the whole, say there can be no doubt that the accom-phshment of the work must be attributed mainly to hiszeal, encouragement, and direction. He was led to theundertaking slowly and gradually, and it was not completeduntil after several preliminary efforts. The fifteen by them show a great diversity. It is possiblethat, whilst Wyclif took the New Testament, the Oldwas put
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