[SoothingDave]

Was there a point to posting this? It had nothign to do with him translating it into English, that had already been done.

The church declared it contained thousands of errors as they torched hundreds of New Testaments confiscated by the clergy, while in fact, they burned them because they could find no errors at all.

Now we see the problem. He was propagating errors. In a monolithic state this is analogous to treason.

Things are different in a modern secular state like ours. We really should not try to apply our standards to people living in a different time.

SD

[hopespringseternal]

Was there a point to posting this? It had nothign to do with him translating it into English, that had already been done.

Are you simply ignorant of history? Wycliffe was the first translation, and while he was not burned he was put on trial and one of his friends was burned.

Now we see the problem. He was propagating errors. In a monolithic state this is analogous to treason.

A remarkable assertion, since the same monarch that had Tyndale strangled and burned for "errors" authorized a translation that relied heavily on the work of...Tyndale.