[P-Marlowe]

Others will plainly see that God inspired the printing press because he saw that those who were responsible for teaching the Scriptures were failing him.

I'd dare say that once the scriptures had been translated into the vernacular of the people, there was finally a use for the printing press, so God ordained that it should be invented.

Prior to Wycliffe and Tyndale, it was a crime to translate the scriptures into the vernacular of the laity. The church allegedly held the keys, but they had all the doors locked.

It was Wycliffe and Tyndale and Luther who unlocked those doors. If anyone could have been said to posess the keys to the kingdom it was Wycliffe, Tyndale, Luther and Gutenberg. They put those keys to good use and the Reformation was born.

[ScubieNuc]

Prior to Wycliffe and Tyndale, it was a crime to translate the scriptures into the vernacular of the laity.

Wow! A crime! That's an eye opener. What was the reason that the Scriptures were supposed to be kept in Latin or Greek or whatever?