REL 1510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Myles Coverdale, Coverdale Bible, Thomas Cranmer
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Faithful among the faithless, faithful only he His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal John wycliff"s hand-written manuscripts were the first complete bibles in the. Wycliff (or wycliffe), an oxford theologian translated out of the fourth century latin vulgate, as the greek and hebrew languages of the old and new testaments were inaccessible to him. Curiously, he was also the inventor of bifocal eyeglasses. Wycliff spent many of his years writing and teaching against the practices and dogmas of the roman church which he believed to be contrary to the holy writ. Pope was so infuriated by his teachings that 44 years after wycliff had died, he ordered the bones to be dug-up, crushed, and scattered in the river! Gutenburg invented the printing press in the 1450"s, and the first book to ever be printed was the bible (in latin). With the onset of the reformation in the early.
