The Evolution of the English Bible a Historical Sketch of the Successive Versio
The Evolution of the English Bible a Historical Sketch of the Successive Versio
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In these respects the glory rests with his predecessor, Wycliffe. But the English of the fourteenth century is not our English, and Wycliffe's Bible is not a translation at first hand, but only a translation of the Latin Bible.
* This Polyglot Bible derives its name from Complutum, the ancient name of Alcala, where a university was founded in 1 500 by Cardinal Ximenes. It was in six folio volumes, and contained the Hebrew and Greek texts, the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the Chaldee paraphrase ...of the Pentateuch, with a Latin translation ; Greek and Hebrew grammars, and a Hebrew dictionary.
120 WILLIAM TYNDALE AND HIS WORK For felicity of diction, and for dignity of rhythm, Tyndale never has been and never can be surpassed. The conception of the Bible as essentially the people's book came down to him as we have seen from Wycliffe, but his splendid embodiment of that conception in the popular English of his own day is the work of his indivi- dual genius. Far from vulgarising the Bible by lowering his standard of language down to the popular level (as though a man should descend to render Shakespeare's Comedies into the dialect of the modern farce), he lifted the common language, in a true nobility of homeliness, up to the sublime level of the Bible.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In these respects the glory rests with his predecessor, Wycliffe. But the English of the fourteenth century is not our English, and Wycliffe's Bible is not a translation at first hand, but only a translation of the Latin Bible.
* This Polyglot Bible derives its name from Complutum, the ancient name of Alcala, where a university was founded in 1 500 by Cardinal Ximenes. It was in six folio volumes, and contained the Hebrew and Greek texts, the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the Chaldee paraphrase ...of the Pentateuch, with a Latin translation ; Greek and Hebrew grammars, and a Hebrew dictionary.
120 WILLIAM TYNDALE AND HIS WORK For felicity of diction, and for dignity of rhythm, Tyndale never has been and never can be surpassed. The conception of the Bible as essentially the people's book came down to him as we have seen from Wycliffe, but his splendid embodiment of that conception in the popular English of his own day is the work of his indivi- dual genius. Far from vulgarising the Bible by lowering his standard of language down to the popular level (as though a man should descend to render Shakespeare's Comedies into the dialect of the modern farce), he lifted the common language, in a true nobility of homeliness, up to the sublime level of the Bible.
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