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John Rogers (c. 1505 – 4 February 1555) was an English clergyman, Bible translator and commentator. He guided the development of the Matthew Bible in vernacular English during the reign of Henry VIII and was the first English Protestant executed as a heretic under Mary I, who was determined to restore Roman Catholicism.
The Prayer of Manasseh was the work of John Rogers. Rogers translated from a French Bible printed two years earlier (in 1535). Rogers compiled the completed work and added the preface, some marginal notes, a calendar and an almanac. Of the three translators, two met with martyrdom.
John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr) (c. 1500–1555), English clergyman; editor and translator of the Matthew Bible John Rogers (died 1636), English Puritan lecturer of Dedham, Essex
John Rogers – English former diocesan priest, Bible translator and commentator, and the first English Protestant martyr under Queen Mary I of England; abandoned the Catholic Church in the 1530s under the influence of William Tyndale
John Rogers (c. 1570 – 1636) was an English Puritan clergyman and preacher. Described as a "grave and judicious divine" and considered one of the most awakened preachers of his era, according to the book, Lives of The Puritans .
Two complete Bible translations into English, both based on Tyndale's, appear: Myles Coverdale's 1535 text is the first to be printed in England (by James Nicholson in Southwark, London). The Matthew Bible edited by John Rogers under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew", is printed in Antwerp. [2]
Translators of the Bible into Old English (3 P) Pages in category "Translators of the Bible into English" The following 161 pages are in this category, out of 161 total.
Becke there speaks of the book as "the frutes of myne industry", but it appears to be a re-print of T. Matthew's (i.e. John Rogers') "Bible" published in 1537, though it contains Tyndale's 1534 version of 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, not the 1535 revision that was carried into the Matthew bible. There are also significant variations in the tone ...