The English Bible Some Account of Its Origin And Various Versions
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Fortunately, to Colet and Erasmus, scholarship was the means to a great end. For centuries theologians had been, to use Bacon's phrase, cymini sectores, " hairsplitters. " Colet and Erasmus declared that the Bible could be readily understood by all and should not be reserved for a handful of theologians. " I totally dissent, " wrote Erasmus, " from those who are unwilling that the Sacred Scriptures, translated into the vulgar tongue, should be read by private individuals, as if Christ had taugh...t such subtle doctrines that they can with difficulty be understood by a very few theologians, or as if the strength of the Christian religion lay in men's ignorance of it. " The teachings of Colet and Erasmus found yet more powerful utterance in William Tyndale. Whether he studied directly under Colet at Oxford and under Erasmus at Cambridge is questionable, but at all events his years at both universities brought him close to the enthusiasm they had kindled. The desire of Erasmus that the husband- man might sing parts of the Scriptures at his xxiv ' INTRODUCTION plough is echoed in Tyndale's remark to a " learned man " : *' If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou doest.
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