Tyndale’s Bible
L ast Week… John Wycliffe : Unauthorized and rejected at the Oxford Convocation of 1408
T his Week… William Tyndale: Work inspired and infused into the King James Bible.
W illiam Tyndale c – 1536, born in Dursley, Gloucestershire English Protestant Reformer, scholar, and priest. Educated at Oxford and possibly studied under Erasmus. Gifted linguist: fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, in addition to his native English. Tyndale's translation was the first English translation to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts. Also, the first to take advantage of the new medium of print, which allowed for its wide distribution. In 1535 Tyndale was arrested, jailed in a castle outside of Brussels for over a year, tried for heresy and burnt at the stake.
T yndale’s Legacy In translating the Bible, Tyndale introduced new words into the English Language, and many were subsequently used in the King James Bible: –Jehovah –Passover (as the name for the Jewish holiday, Pesach or Pesah) –Atonement –Scapegoat He also coined such familiar phrases as: –let there be light –the powers that be –my brother's keeper –the salt of the earth –a law unto themselves –it came to pass –gave up the ghost –the signs of the times –the spirit is willing –fight the good fight
Y e Olde Wedding Crashers Priest: And now, for our next reading, I'd like to ask the bride's sister Gloria up to the lectern. John: 20 bucks, First Corinthians. Jeremy: Double or nothing, Colossians 3:12. Gloria: And now a reading from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians
F irst Corinthians Modern English “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. {Love never ends (fails). But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.}” -The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 3 rd ed.
F irst Corinthians Tyndale’s English “Love suffreth longe / & is corteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not frowardly swelleth / not dealeth not dishonestly / seketh not her awne / is not provoked to anger / thynketh not evyll / reioyseth not in iniquite: but reioyseth in ye trueth / suffreth all thynge / beleveth all thynges / hopeth all thynges / endureth in all thynges. {Though that prophesyinge fayle / other tonges shall cease or knowledge vanysshe awaye / yet love falleth never awaye.}”
V ocabulary “Love suffreth longe / & is corteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not frowardly swelleth / not dealeth not dishonestly / seketh not her awne / is not provoked to anger / thynketh not evyll / reioyseth not in iniquite: but reioyseth in ye trueth / suffreth all thynge / beleveth all thynges / hopeth all thynges / endureth in all thynges. {Though that prophesyinge fayle / other tonges shall cease or knowledge vanysshe awaye / yet love falleth never awaye.}” Orange: Noteworthy word Blue: Different Spelling Green: Archaic Word
M orphology “Love suffreth longe / & is corteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not frowardly swelleth / not dealeth not dishonestly / seketh not her awne / is not provoked to anger / thynketh not evyll / reioyseth not in iniquite: but reioyseth in ye trueth / suffreth all thynge / beleveth all thynges / hopeth all thynges / endureth in all thynges. {Though that prophesyinge fayle / other tonges shall cease or knowledge vanysshe awaye / yet love falleth never awaye.}”
S yntax “Love suffreth longe / & is corteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not frowardly swelleth / not dealeth not dishonestly / seketh not her awne / is not provoked to anger / thynketh not evyll / reioyseth not in iniquite: but reioyseth in ye trueth / suffreth all thynge / beleveth all thynges / hopeth all thynges / endureth in all thynges. {Though that prophesyinge fayle / other tonges shall cease or knowledge vanysshe awaye / yet love falleth never awaye.}”