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LETT them by Wyclife. Then appeared. in
1925, Tyndsle's translation of the New Testa-
ment This was secretly printed in part at
Cologne, but, the secret becoming known.
Tyndale flew up the Rhine to Worms and
there completed his work; 5000 copies were
printed These were stealthily conveyed to
London, concealed in merchandise consigned
to pous merchants at that port, and were as
stealthily sold. The people received them
gladly, but by the King and Bishops the
.'pernicious books as they were styled,
were interdicted. Again, too, Parliament in
terfered, decreeing that these books SHOULD
be by authority OF this act cleeriy and utter
ly abolished, extinguished and forbidden to
be kept and used in this realme, or elsewhere
in anie the Kings dominions." In 1885
Tyndale was arrested on a charge of heresy,
and confined in castle near Brussels. Here,
in the following year he was strangled 10
death.
The next English translation to appear was
what was known as "Coverdale's Bible" This
was printed in Antwerp in 1885. 1t was not
translated out of the original languages, but,
as the author contesses in his preface, ''out of
Douche and Latyn." Two years later Mat
thews's Bible" was published. This Was re-
vision of the two works last named, rather
than translation. Its editor, John Rogers,
who for some ineIplicsble reason adopted the
nom de plume of "Fhomas Matthew'S" was
treated with great consideration by Edward
VI, but on the accession OF Mary he was ar
rested, and, after an Imprisonment of two
years, was burned at Smithfeld. This Bible
became the foundation OF the Authorized
Version of 1911. The next to appear was an
edition in 1889 by Richard Taverner. This,
also, was a revision of former issues, but the
work was well done. Other English versions
of the Scriptures published in the sixteenth
century were "The Great Bible" so called be-
csuse of its size, the pages being nineteen
inchesby nine, larger than those OF any other
Bible: "Wittinghams New Testament" re-
markable as the first edition Of the Scriptures
In which the text was broken into verses and
with numerals used TO distinguish them;
"The Geneva Bible" the first English Bible
printed in Roman type, and also the first in
which italics were used to denote words sup
piled by the translator; and, last of all, an
edition known as "The Bishops Bible" whose
title-page was embellished with halt-length
portrait of Queen Elizabeth. The most cor
rect of these was the Geneva version. This
outlired all the others, and for long time
was a powerful rival of the Authorized Ver-
sion of King James.
An edition of Matthews's Bible published
in 1851 was called "The Bug Bible" because
the psssag. in Psalms XII, s. which in our
version reads, Thou shalt not be afraid for
the terror by night" was rendered in that
book, 80 that thou shalt not nede TO be
atrayed for any bugges by night" Another
edition. the. Genevan. was called 1.-THE
Breeches Bible" because it rendered Genesis
ill.,, Z, "They sewed 6g-leaves together and
made themselves breeches." The Bishops
Bible, 1868. on account Of rendering Jer.
vii, %. as ais there no hydcle IN Gilead?'
was dignifed with the sobriguet "The
Treacle Bib.e." The same passage being rem
derei in the Douay Version, ais there no rosin
in Gilead?" that has been nicknamed the
"Rosin Bible" An edition of the Author
lied Version, published in Oxford in l7l7, is
known as "The Vinegar Bible,"a name given
It because OF a printers blunder in rendering
the title to Luke Xxx" THE Parable of the
Vinegar" instead OF "The Parable of the
Vineyard" The worst nickname of all is
that given to an edition OF the Authorized
Version printed in London by Baker l. Lucas
n 1881. 1t this edition the all-important
negative was omitted from the Seventh Com
nandment Naturally this is called "The
Wicked Bible" Other mistakes, grave or
gay, have been made in different editions of
he Bible by printers; as, for instance, where
Paul is made to say, Purge your conscience
rom good works, instead of from dead works;
md again, where our Savior's words in the |
,eatitudes, BLESSED are the pedee-mdkers,"
Ire made to read-:or the special comfort, we
Iuppose, of ofice-seekers-"Blessed are the |
,ldce-mdkers"
In view of these typographical blunders, it |
Gems only in accordance with the fitness Of |
hings that one Bible should have made David |
ay, in Psalm cxix. l6l, instead of "Princes
lave prosecuted me without cause" "Print-
RS have prosecuted ne without cause"
The standard Bible of the Catholic church
revised edition of what is known as the
ATTN Vulgate This version of the Scrip
ures was translated from the original Ian
,uages by Jerome at the beginning of the
18th century. Jerome's production as it at
rst appeared, differed 80 materially in some
oints from the vetus Italia, the version thu
ccepted by the church, that its author was
harged with heresy and falsi6cation. Even
o great and good a man as ST. Augustine
1ined in this charge for a time. Gradually,
owever, the work gained in favor, and in
wo hundred years after Jerome's death it
ecame the universally received version OF
ne church.
This version, after having been thrice re-
ised, was declared by the Tridentine Couu-
i. in 1876, the authorized version Of the Ro-
ian church. Shortly afterwards an English
was put out, called the "Douay
ersion," which is still extant, and which
ffers from the Protestant Bible chi fly in
lie fact that the passages which, in the latter
,join repentance" as condition of saliva
on, are so rendered in the former as to re-
lire the doing Of "penance"
CARVING.