.Therefore I say hereto that he was martyred also because he held
the word of God over all traditions and doctrine of men. And Lo, the
LORD asks those that accuse and persecute his children still today
the same question:
'Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, thorow your
traditions?' Matthew XV.
also see Mark vij.}.
At last, after much reasoning, when no reason would serve, although
he deserved no death, he was condemned by virtue of the emperor's
decree, made in the assembly at Augsburg. Brought forth to the place
of execution, he was tied to the stake, strangled by the hangman, and
afterwards consumed with fire, at the town of Vilvorde, (morning of 6
October) A.D. 1536; crying at the stake with a fervent zeal, and a
loud voice, "Lord! open the king of England's eyes." -- Foxe's Book
of Martyrs
A couple of years after Tyndale's death, Miles Coverdale's Bible was
to be used in every parish in the land. This was largely based on
Tyndale's Bible. In 1539 Tyndale's own edition of the Bible became
officially approved for printing. The Great Bible was the first Bible
ever authorized for public use.
William Tyndale's translation is the foundation of all reformed
English versions published for three centuries afterwards:
Coverdale's Bible New Testament is a revision of Tyndale 1534;
Matthew's Bible is a revision of Tyndale 1535; Taverner's Bible and
the Great Bible are revisions of Matthew's Bible; The Bishops' Bible
is a revision of the Great Bible, and also the N.
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