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To: Elsie
Once again, that's largely talking about unauthorized translations. Do you think all translations of the Bible are good? Here, try this NWT out for size.

This however:

William Tyndale was burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English

Is flatly wrong. The bill of indictment against Tyndale is available on the Internet; "translating the Bible into English" is not one of the charges on it. Besides, he was tried and punished in Belgium, why would they even care if he had translated the Bible into a language they didn't speak?

John Wycliffe, was the first (1380 C.E.) to translate the New Testament into English

Wrong. The Venerable Bede translated parts long before Wycliffe did. Even the forward to the 1611 KJV admits that the Bible had been translated into the language of the country many times before they did.

142 posted on 03/29/2018 2:19:24 PM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre! [Hold yourself absolutely to the Teaching! -- BXVI])
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To: Campion
Once again, that's largely talking about unauthorized translations.

Nice qualifier!

179 posted on 03/29/2018 6:02:59 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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