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A modern-spelling edition of the 14th century Middle English translation, the first complete English vernacular version. More than two centuries before the King James Version came into existence, Oxford professor and theologian John Wycliffe undertook the first-ever English translation of Scripture. The hand-printed "Early Version" of the ...
This summary of the Gospel of John provides information about the title, author(s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Gospel of John. Author. The author is the apostle John, "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (13:23 [see note there]; 19:26; 20:2; 21:7,20,24). He was prominent in the ...
This summary of the book of Genesis provides information about the title, author (s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Book of Genesis.
This summary of the Gospel of Matthew provides information about the title, author (s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Gospel of Matthew.
John 3:16 For God loved so the world [Forsooth God so loved the world], that he gave his one begotten Son, that each man that believeth in him perish not, but have everlasting life.... Read verse in Wycliffe.
In the fourteenth century, John Wycliffe was the first to make (or at least oversee) an English translation of the Bible, but that was before the invention of the printing press, and all copies had to be handwritten.
To keep it simple, here is a very brief outline of the Bible used before the King James Version. (By the way I am primarily referring to translations that were done in English). 1382 – The Wycliffe Bible translated by John Wycliffe from the Latin Vulgate into English. 1455 – The Gutenberg Bible.
The John Wycliffe Translation. John Wycliffe translated the Vulgate into Middle English in the fourteenth century. Diane Severance explains in her article “John Wycliffe’s Life and Work” that as an “early critic of the Roman Catholic church and an advocate for translating the Bible into English, John Wycliffe paved the way for later ...
John Wickliffe This celebrated reformer, denominated the "Morning Star of the Reformation," was born about the year 1324, in the reign of Edward II. Of his extraction we have no certain account.
The Apocrypha was a subject of controversy that challenged not only Luther and Wycliffe but John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, Ulrich Zwingli and other Reformers. Apocrypha in Greek means “the hidden things,” as per The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.