John 17:17 ..."Thy word is Truth..."
Will Kinney:--- Good Posts on this Thread.
Vendetta Ride:---- Very good points in your post above! You posted ( and rather well)- (didn't know about the Gothic one- thanks.) what I was going to mention about those early english translations. Tyndale lived/worked translated about the same time period as Martin Luther, but unlike Luther, Tyndale did not have a friendly Government allowing him to do his work. He fled, but was captured in Belgium (which was a R.C. governed country) , and he was burned at the stake. Much of his translation/phrasing survived and was used by the 1604 translators.
Then the gents who were Protestant refugees in the city of Geneva ( from the claws of the R.C. Queen Mary of England ) translated a Bible that was used for many decades. Much blood, tears and sweat in order to get the Bible into the hands/language of the common people. Makes a person wonder what those R.C. agents/Jesuits are going to say on Judgement Day ..?
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