Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

landowner. Here his attacks upon the superstitions
of popery threw him into sharp discussions with a
stagnant clergy, and brought down upon his head
the wrath of the reactionaries. It was then that in
disputing with a learned man who put the Pope’s
laws above God’s laws, that he made his famous
vow, “If God spare my life, ere many years, I will
cause a boy that driveth a plough shall know more
of the Scripture than thou doest.”
From that moment until he was burnt at the
stake, his life was one of continual sacrifice and
persecution. The man who was to charm whole
continents and bind them together as one in
principle and purpose by his translation of God’s
Word, was compelled to build his masterpiece in a
foreign land amid other tongues than his own. As
Luther took the Greek New Testament of Erasmus
and made the German language, so Tyndale took
the same immortal gift of God and made the
English language. Across the sea, he translated the
New Testament and a large part of the Old. Two
thirds of the Bible was translated into English by
Tyndale, and what he did not translate was finished
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