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Happy 400th Birthday to the King James Bible -- The Most Influential Book in the English Language
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| May 2, 2011
| Larry Stone
Posted on 05/06/2011 11:09:57 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy
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posted on
05/06/2011 11:19:48 PM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
To: Alex Murphy
A clergyman hopelessly entrenched in Roman Catholic dogma once taunted Tyndale with the statement, We are better to be without Gods laws than the Popes. Tyndale was infuriated by such Roman Catholic heresies, and he replied, I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life ere many years, I will cause the boy that drives the plow to know more of the scriptures than you!
http://greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/william-tyndale.html
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posted on
05/06/2011 11:26:00 PM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
To: fortheDeclaration
A clergyman hopelessly entrenched in Roman Catholic dogma once taunted Tyndale with the statement Which clergyman? It's telling that these anti-Catholic sentiments are rarely attributed to an actual person.
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posted on
05/06/2011 11:36:18 PM PDT
by
Al Hitan
To: Cronos
I'm not sure about your last statement. the KJV probably played a big part in creating Modern English (not in "fixing"), but that also includes Shakespeare and yes, the OED later. Shakespeare's English is rather different from the English of today, yet it is much closer in time to Jonathan Swift's English than Swift is to ours. Swift is completely understandable to any English reader today. No footnotes are necessary for children being introduced to his work.
Dictionaries intervened.
ML/NJ
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posted on
05/07/2011 5:48:52 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: fortheDeclaration
Great to see you around, ftD!
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posted on
05/07/2011 8:07:54 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed: he's hated on seven continents)
To: Alex Murphy
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posted on
05/07/2011 8:02:37 PM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
To: Al Hitan
Which clergyman? It's telling that these anti-Catholic sentiments are rarely attributed to an actual person. Give me a break!
Those are exactly the sentiments Rome has always had!
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posted on
05/07/2011 8:04:25 PM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
To: fortheDeclaration
Give me a break! Why should I give you a break? You claimed "A clergyman hopelessly entrenched in Roman Catholic dogma once taunted Tyndale". I'd like to know who it was so we can verify the truthfulness of your claim.
Those are exactly the sentiments Rome has always had!
Your opinions have as much value as your anonymous quote.
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posted on
05/07/2011 11:41:29 PM PDT
by
Al Hitan
To: fortheDeclaration; Al Hitan
ftd, that's popular fiction, unattested and made up a few centuries later. It has no attestation and not even a name or a witness for reference. It is not something that Tyndale even wrote about, right?
If you believe fiction like that, then no wonder Dan Brown makes such a good living...
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posted on
05/07/2011 11:46:15 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(Libspeak: "Yes there is proof. And no, for the sake of privacy I am not posting it here.")
To: Cronos
If you believe fiction like that, then no wonder Dan Brown makes such a good living... Amen to that.
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posted on
05/08/2011 12:25:29 AM PDT
by
Al Hitan
To: Cronos
No one made up anything, that is a factual event and statement.
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posted on
05/09/2011 3:07:21 AM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
To: Al Hitan
Tyndales comment is a factual one, and I believe it was said by Tyndale when he was denied the right to translate the Bible.
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posted on
05/09/2011 3:11:29 AM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
To: Al Hitan
The current owner of Little Sodbury Manor graciously allowed us to take photos of the Great Room. It is here that Tyndale had discussions over dinner with visiting Catholic priests and prelates. It is perhaps in this room that the famous discussion was carried on, in which a priest said, We only need the popes laws, and Tyndale replied that he defied the pope and all his laws and that he intended to make the plowboy to know the Scriptures.)
http://www.wayoflife.org/database/historyenglishbibletyndale.html
And it is likely that he picked up the quote from Erasmus.
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posted on
05/09/2011 3:19:48 AM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
To: fortheDeclaration
Actual, it is not factual and has no attestation and not even a name or a witness for reference.
It is not something that Tyndale even wrote about.
It's like Dan Brown making up history -- namely you repeated a fake statement with no attestation (who is this unnamed person who said it? and who wrote it down? Certainly not Tyndale himself, and it was not heard of for centuries after)
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posted on
05/09/2011 3:20:22 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Libspeak: "Yes there is proof. And no, for the sake of privacy I am not posting it here.")
To: fortheDeclaration; Al Hitan
Actual, it is not factual and has no attestation and not even a name or a witness for reference.
It is not something that Tyndale even wrote about.
It's like Dan Brown making up history -- namely you repeated a fake statement with no attestation (who is this unnamed person who said it? and who wrote it down? Certainly not Tyndale himself, and it was not heard of for centuries after)
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posted on
05/09/2011 3:20:30 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Libspeak: "Yes there is proof. And no, for the sake of privacy I am not posting it here.")
To: fortheDeclaration
Tyndales comment is a factual one You haven't established it as fact.
I believe it was said by Tyndale when he was denied the right to translate the Bible.
I'm not really interested in what you "believe" about it.
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posted on
05/09/2011 3:35:04 AM PDT
by
Al Hitan
To: fortheDeclaration
It is perhaps in this room that the famous discussion was carried on Perhaps not.
And it is likely that he picked up the quote from Erasmus.
I'm not really interested in musings on Way of Life that haven't been validated. Either the priest said it or he didn't. Let's see the evidence.
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posted on
05/09/2011 3:42:25 AM PDT
by
Al Hitan
To: Al Hitan; fortheDeclaration
I believe it was said by Tyndale Ftd -- when one believes this unaccounted, unfactual, non-historical statement, is it accompanied by a "burning in the bosom" or was it with a "seeker stone" buried in a hat?
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posted on
05/09/2011 3:51:37 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Libspeak: "Yes there is proof. And no, for the sake of privacy I am not posting it here.")
To: Cronos
Yea right, it seems so impossible that it happened.
Now, Peter being the first Pope, that is something to reallllly believe in!
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posted on
05/09/2011 4:14:34 AM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
To: Al Hitan
And I am not interested in what you believe or don't believe.
What Tyndale did DO was make the plowboy know more Bible then any Papist.
And that IS a fact.
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posted on
05/09/2011 4:18:07 AM PDT
by
fortheDeclaration
(When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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