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Translations of the Bible 87 not a language worthy of conveying the profound moral sentiments of the Bible. Over one hundred and fifty years later, William Tyndale translated the New Testament into English from the original Greek, seeking in the process to produce a version of the Bible which could be accessible to anyone who could read, and to ordinary working people in particular. He was a strong proponent of the view that people should be able to read the Bible in their own language and, accordingly, contributed much to the development of a plain, colloquial English style. Yet Tyndale had to work abroad and was eventually put to death by burning as a result of his work. Here is an example from Tyndale’s Bible, extracted from Genesis, which illustrates the main features of his vernacular style: And the woman sawe that it was a good tree to eate of and lustie unto the eyes and a plesant tre for to make wyse. And toke of the frute of it and ate and gave unto hir husband also with her. . . . And the eyes of both of them were opened. In many ways Tyndale’s English is the first popular expression of modern English. Many of his phrases have entered the language: The powers that be The signs of the times A law unto themselves Eat, drink and be merry having eventually established themselves in the Authorised Version. Other influential Bibles in English were the Coverdale Bible (1535), which was a translation from German and the first complete Bible to be published in English and the Bishop’s Bible (1568) which was a revised version of the Great Bible (1568). The most important and influential Bible was, however, the King James Bible, published in 1611, and also known as the Authorised Version. In 1604 the new king, King James I, wanted to have a version of the Bible which would become the single standardised version for use in all churches and throughout the country and ordered a panel of scholars and translators to produce a version on which there could be general agreement and which would be acceptable to the bishops of the country. The translators aimed for a formal rather than a vernacular style and tended to look to the past for inspiration both in terms of previous Bibles, relying especially on the Tyndale and Coverdale Bibles, and in
88 The Renaissance 1485–1660 terms of forms of the English language. The language of the King James Bible is not, therefore, wholly the language of the beginning of the seventeenth century but its idiom has entered the modern English language as a whole pervasively and in a variety of ways. In terms of grammar, the Authorised Version of the Bible maintains an older word order: for example, they knew him not (for ‘they did not know him’) and things eternal (for ‘eternal things’); the -eth/th thirdperson singular form of present tense verbs is common: for example, God doth know (for ‘God does know’) and your cup runneth over (for ‘your cup runs over’); several irregular verbs appear in older forms: for example, spake (for ‘spoke’), wist (for ‘knew’), and gat (for ‘got’); and several prepositions have a marked usage: for example, the preposition ‘of ’ in tempted of (‘by’) Satan; and the use of ‘his’ as a possessive form: if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted (for ‘if the salt has lost its savour’). Above all, however, phrases, proverbial expressions and sayings which occur in the Authorised Version are now so much part of everyday English that their origins are hardly ever recognised. For example, money is the root of all evil (1 Tim. 6), all things to all men (1 Cor. 9), the blind lead/leading the blind (Matt. 15), at their wit’s end (Psalm 107). Comparisons between the King James Bible and the Modern English Bible (1961) illustrate the extent to which modern English had already been substantially formed by the beginning of the seventeenth century: Now Peter sate without in the palace: and a damosell came unto him saying, Thou also wast with Iesus of Galilee. But hee denied before them all saying, I know not what thou saiest . . . And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and saide to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them, for thy speech bewrayeth thee. Meanwhile Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard when a serving–maid accosted him and said, ‘You were there too with Jesus the Galilean’. Peter denied it in face of them all. ‘I do not know what you mean’, he said. . . . Shortly afterwards the bystanders came up and said to Peter, ‘Surely you are another of them; your accent gives you away!’ The language of the Bible was primarily heard by churchgoers and the rhythms and music of its cadences exerted a major influence on the development of spoken and written English. It reached a vast
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The Routledge History of Literature
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