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William Tyndale

William Tyndale (/ˈtɪndəl/; sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; c. 1494 – c. 6 October 1536) was an English scholar who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. He is well known for his translation of the Bible into English. He was influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus, who made the Greek New Testament available in Europe, and by Martin Luther. A number of partial translations had been made from the seventh century onward, but the spread of Wycliffe's Bible in the late 14th century led to the death penalty for anyone found in unlicensed possession of Scripture in English, although translations were available in all other major European languages.[citation needed]

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We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's. ” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!

Boys, Ere, Law, Passionately, Pope, Years

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

Affirm, Blood, Body, Bread, Christ

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

Goodness, Root, Roots, Spring, Springs

There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God.

Apostle, Cobblers, Touching, Water, Work

And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.

Baptized In, Blood, Good, Heart, Part, Promises

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

Faith, God, Imagination, Plain, Promised, Trust

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.

Confirm, Days, Diversity, Heresy, Matter, Opinion

We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher.

God, Make, Master, Men, Teacher, Teaching

Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.

Blood, Body, Institution, Memorial, Noted

Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done.

Done, Known, Long, Spiritual, Spoken, Things

they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.

Causes, Chooseth, Contrary, God, Men, Scripture

The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.

Christianity, Church, Exists, Institution, Institutions

Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.

Heart, Joy, Joyful, Leap, Men, Signifieth

For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.

And Love, God, Might, See, Son

I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.

Boy, Boys, Causes, Drives, Know, Scripture

Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of. . . serve his brethren.

Crafts, Let, Men, Occupation, Serve

All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.

Deserving, Rewards, Suffering, Thereof, Way

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

Establish, Eye, Impossible, Mother, Perceived, Truth

Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.

Children, Eagles, Father, Know, Teaches

Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known.

Christian, Desire, Paul, People, Widely

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