The most pernicious lie in an article chock-filled of lies, distortions, slander and flat out invented nonsense:
“By Tyndale’s day, it was still a crime to translate or read the Bible in one’s mother tongue.”
The Catholic Church did not object to English translations. In fact, there had been published, English-language breviaries for forever. (Breviaries were compilations of readings and prayers from the bible; they typically included the entire New Testament, and all the psalms, prayers, and hymns from the Old Testament. The Catholics objected to Tyndale’s bible because of the commentaries and bad translations.
English translations weren’t more common simply because if you were literate at all, you were literate in Latin. The English language simply was too primitive to even express the Greek arguments.
In the Religion forum, on a thread titled HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE - WILLIAM TYNDALE, dangus wrote:
The most pernicious lie in an article chock-filled of lies, distortions, slander and flat out invented nonsense:
“By Tyndale’s day, it was still a crime to translate or read the Bible in one’s mother tongue.”
The Catholic Church did not object to English translations. In fact, there had been published, English-language breviaries for forever. (Breviaries were compilations of readings and prayers from the bible; they typically included the entire New Testament, and all the psalms, prayers, and hymns from the Old Testament. The Catholics objected to Tyndale’s bible because of the commentaries and bad translations.
English translations weren’t more common simply because if you were literate at all, you were literate in Latin. The English language simply was too primitive to even express the Greek arguments.
“The English language simply was too primitive to even express the Greek arguments.”
pffffft
I’ll not get into sectarian arguments, but your last sentence is, to put in Catholic parlance, “reductio ad absurdum”.
It’s amazing that Shakespeare could compose a sonnet!
I’ll retreat back to neutral territory, now. Y’all enjoy your vitriolic counseling.
“In fact, there had been published, English-language breviaries for forever.”
Breviaries and Bibles aren’t the same thing. The Council of Toulouse specifically exempted breviaries, even while banning the Old and New Testaments to be possessed by the laity.