The KJV Quotation on the Masthead. Look for Others in the Future.

 

Tyndale and Luther did not create the deceptive and foolish "make disciples" paraphrase of the Great Commission. Similar pratfalls are found in the modernized German Bible and the hideous NIV, ESV, RSV, NRSV, and Beck (rhymes with Yuck).

Tyndale and the KJV

In 1525, William Tyndale, an English contemporary of Martin Luther, undertook a translation of the New Testament. Tyndale's translation was the first printed Bible in English. Over the next ten years, Tyndale revised his New Testament in the light of rapidly advancing biblical scholarship, and embarked on a translation of the Old Testament. Despite some controversial translation choices, and in spite of Tyndale's execution on charges of heresy for having made the translated Bible, the merits of Tyndale's work and prose style made his translation the ultimate basis for all subsequent renditions into Early Modern English. 

David Daniell (2003). The Bible in English: Its History and Influence. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09930-4.

The Triumph of the Weak and Despised, The Doom of the Vindictive Bullies.

The garden is quite the battleground, and so are the gardening spaces along the fences and behind the house. 

Weeds love rich soil and take over as soon as they can. I caught a squirrel burying his food under a rose bush. Someone asked, "Why would they do that?" I said, "Sunshine, water, and a prickly guard will allow his future nut tree to be firmly established  and possibly take over. If I pull the weed tree I will uproot the rose." 

However, the bully plant will show its colors and find itself snipped into exhaustion.

I am reading a classic book about the Roman Catholic persecution and slaughter of Huguenots, Vaudois, and other Protestants. From the beginning, Christianity has grown through those paradoxical methods. At the same time, the establishment of the visible church has meant the deadening and final apostasy of many prosperous church bodies.

The great and wise among Protestants in America and England sought to ditch the KJV and replace it with their Revision of the KJV, which lasted as long as the Hula Hoop.

The current KJV-Never crowd includes WELS-ELDONA-ELCA-LCMS-ELS. They may politely disagree with the Message, the various Livings, but they heap scorn on the masterpiece of all translations, the KJV. To prove their feigned nobility, they treat the KJV with silence, lest a sarcastic face-plant leave them looking like the fools they are.

William Tyndale was not only a brilliant translator, but he also associated with the Lutheran Reformation, printing many of his English Bibles not far from Luther's stronghold. He was murdered for his crime of translating, but soon after, the KJV of 1611 was established by another fluke of history (or was it?) 

That Bible became the Scriptures of the English speaking world - the British Empire and the American Republic.

Sceptics of the past and present - like Mencken and Harvard - acknowledge that nothing compares to the KJV. 

Gardens grow in beauty because the gardener watches for the weeds and gently nurtures the  new plants. In one place I look up at the mighty Joe Pye Weed and wait for the butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees to arrive. In the back I hope for the same plants, new and starving for rain, to survive the scorching sun and establish its roots.

American denominations have nurtured the weeds and rooted up sound doctrine wherever they can. Bishop-for-Life Jim Heiser was frightened of Waldo Werning's power (ha!) and did not publish a review of the great phony's work. Why? It was well known that WW would pursue his critics out of the LCMS and beyond. 

I challenged the lying Waldo on the phone and quoted him as a Fuller agent - from the notes I took in my DayTimer. He flew into a rage but he died a Facebook friend. 

Lots of "conservative" Lutherans have disowned and shunned me. They like to rage anonymously against me, and they respond in horror to what I publish in my own name (not afraid of their Father Below). They give me time and energy to work with those few, those happy few, those band of brothers who find a common cause in the Word of God.

Tyndale and Luther - Or Westcott and Hort?

 Apparently not - but wave some Thrivent money at them and they will nod back - "Yes, ma'm, right away. What were your pronouns?"

 "We never could have accomplished so much without that curious, shadowy stranger who encouraged, praised, and supported us."

William Tyndale, Prince of Translators | The American Spectator. "Let's Honor Tyndale by Ignoring Him" - Ignorant Synodical Lutherans

 William Tyndale is the connection between Luther's Reformation and the King James Version of the Bible.
LCMS-ELCA-WELS-ELS-CN love, love, love other versions.
The Calvinist/NCC ESV has great snob appeal.

William Tyndale, Prince of Translators | The American Spectator:



"It is a version that still affects the way we speak. The vast majority of the King James Bible, for instance, comprises Tyndale’s words, and it has influenced every subsequent English version of Scripture. Anyone who has ever used the phrases “the powers that be,” “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak,” or “fight the good fight” is quoting Tyndale, whether he knows it or not, as is anyone who says, “Ask and it shall be given you: Seek and ye shall find: Knock and it shall be opened unto you.“ Tyndale’s New Testament did for the English language what Martin Luther’s German Bible did for the German language: Along with the later Book of Common Prayer, it altered our speech forever. As Daniell remarks, “The great change that came over England from 1526, the ability of every ordinary man, woman, and child to read and hear the whole New Testament in English, accurately rendered, was Tyndale’s work, and its importance cannot be overstressed.”

Tyndale’s classical learning in languages and rhetoric form the indispensable background to his achievement, and demonstrate their enduring significance today. These were gifts that Tyndale used to serve the common people for their edification. As he says in his epistle to the reader at the beginning of his translation of the Pentateuch from Hebrew into English, the reason he had done this work was “[b]ecause I had perceived by experience, how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth, except that Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in the mother tongue, that they might see the process, order and meaning of the text.” But he wished the same for the elites as well. Even when about to be strangled before having his body burned, he still prayed for those in power: John Foxe reports that his last words were, “Lord, open the king of England’s eyes.”"

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