Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts; being a history of the text and its translations . Erasmus in 1516 andrevised in 1522. This was a new departure, and some of themistakes which Tunstall and others professed to find inTyndales work may have been merely cases in which the Greekgave a different sense from the Latin to which they wereaccustomed. The amount of actual errors in translation wouldnot appear to be at all such as to justify the extremely hostilereception which the leaders of the Church gave to the EnglishBible. More may or may not have been right in liolding thatthe old ecclesiasti
Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts; being a history of the text and its translations . Erasmus in 1516 andrevised in 1522. This was a new departure, and some of themistakes which Tunstall and others professed to find inTyndales work may have been merely cases in which the Greekgave a different sense from the Latin to which they wereaccustomed. The amount of actual errors in translation wouldnot appear to be at all such as to justify the extremely hostilereception which the leaders of the Church gave to the EnglishBible. More may or may not have been right in liolding thatthe old ecclesiastical terms, such as church, priest, charity,round which the associations of centuries had gathered, shouldnot be set aside in favour of congregation, senior, love,and the like : there is much to be said on both sides of thequestion ; but certainly this was no just reason for proscribingthe whole translation and assailmg its author. Nor can such * This copy was discovered in 1740 liy an agent of the Earl of Oxford,?who bestowed on the fortunate discoverer an annuity of £20. LATE XXV,. ^g»
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