You wrote:
“In your zeal perhaps you didn’t notice the quotes were ‘ ‘ not “ “ and as such I was paraphrasing you in the same post where I quoted you. “ “ goes around quotes, ‘ ‘ is a paraphrase.”
In your zeal, you invented a quote and said it was mine. I never did that to you and I won’t do so. If you already quoted me accurately, then merely do so again. This isn’t difficult.
“Quibble quibble quibble.”
Evade, evade, evade - you have yet to post proof of your claims about Tyndale. Why is that?
“And my statement was in no way limited to any specific time, so pointing out that the Latin translation of the Bible wasn’t “authorized” until 1546 is another meaningless quibble.”
No, it’s called a fact, and it matters. Your comments - whether accidentally or purposely - give the impression of one fact when in reality that would be wrong. You probably did that accidentally because you simply had no idea about when the Vulgate became the official translation of the Catholic Church. As with many things here, you simply don’t seem to know the required facts, dates, documents, books, histories, personalities, cultures, laws, councils, etc.
“Tyndall was executed for being a famous Bible translator.”
No. And again, you fail to offer a single shread of proof to that effect. Why? As I already posted, noted historians who actually researched and wrote about Tyndale, prove that Tyndale’s act of translating the Bible - which apparently was not even finished when he was arrested - was never arrested, or tried or executed for the act of translating the Bible.
“My exact point was, as you said “Only Protestants produced such a thing in English.””
And that was a fact. Only Protestants produced an official language, mandated, authorized Bible for people who read English.
“The Church has authorized translations (into Latin, even if they didn’t ‘think’ of it as a translation)and forbidden translations (as detailed in the index of forbidden books), exactly as I stated in the beginning.”
And yet you are still WRONG. Tyndale was never, EVER, arrested, or tried, or executed for the act of translating the Bible into English.
Never happened. The experts on Tyndale admit this is the case. You assert otherwise without a single shred of evidence.
You’ve been wrong all along.
That’s not going to change unless you start relying on the facts.
The specific charges against Tyndall was a mere legality and a quibble. He was an infamous Bible translator and was killed for it.
Hiding behind the legalities of the specific charge is like insisting that OJ Simpson isn’t a murderer because he was legally exonerated.
Both Catholics and Protestants have had official translations and forbidden translations of the Bible, and nothing you have said has changed that salient fact.