Tyndale, William (c. 1492–1536)
English translator of the Bible. The printing of his New Testament was begun in Cologne in 1525 and, after he had been forced to flee, completed in Worms. Tyndale introduced some of the most familiar phrases to the English language, such as ‘filthy lucre’, and ‘God forbid’. He was strangled and burned as a heretic at Vilvorde in Belgium.
| His translation heavily influenced that of Miles Coverdale and, later, James I's Authorized Version of the Bible. |
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