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To: fortheDeclaration

Do you have numbers on any of this?


1,274 posted on 05/19/2008 8:24:02 AM PDT by maryz
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To: maryz
Do you have numbers on any of this?

Look it up.

The fact is that as fast as the Bibles were printed they were sold.

1,291 posted on 05/19/2008 11:27:58 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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“The fierceness and destructiveness of the opponents of Tyndale’s translation systematically followed up and destroyed the thousands of copies that had been widely sold through England and Scotland” (Price, The Ancestry of Our English Bible, pp. 247,48). This hatred of Tyndale’s Bible was so aggressive and thorough that though thousands of copies were printed (Simms says no less than 18,000 between 1525 and 1528), only ONE complete copy and ONE partial copy and ONE fragment and of the first edition are known to be in existence today. In 1527, Tyndale testified to the animosity that was being heaped upon him and his Bible by Catholic authorities in Britain: “In burning the New Testament, they did none other thing than I looked for; no more shall they do if they burn me also, if it be God’s will it shall so be. Nevertheless in translating the New Testament I did my duty and so do I now…”

http://www.wayoflife.org/articles/williamtyndale.htm


1,296 posted on 05/19/2008 11:56:49 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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