HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT ENGLISH BIBLE

"TYNDALE'S NEW TESTAMENT" was published under King Henry VIII; the "Bishop's
Bible" in 1568; "THE KING JAMES" or "Authorized Version" in 1611; "The Revised
Version" in 1881. Each of these was brought out because the previous one was found
to contain errors. (Read "History of the Reformation of the Church in England," by J. H.
Blunt, Ch. I). Zwingli, writing to Luther, in commenting on his translation of the Bible into
German, says:

"Thou dost corrupt the word of God; thou art seen to be a manifest and common
corrupter and perverter of the Holy Scriptures; how much are we ashamed of thee!"
(Vol. II, DE SACRAMENTS, p.412).

Here are some of his typical corruptions: "WHEREFORE, BRETHREN," St. Peter
commands us,

"labor the more, that by good works you may make sure your vocation and election" (2
Peter 1:10); But Luther OMITTED the words "BY GOOD WORKS." "We account a man
to be justified by faith" (Romans 3:28). Luther added the word "ALONE." Calvin's
translations of the Scriptures were equally faulty. A Protestant authority says: "Calvin
MAKES THE TEXT OF THE GOSPEL TO LEAP UP AND DOWN; he uses violence to
the letter of the gospel, and besides this, adds to the text." (See Molinaeus'
TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, Part XI, p.110).

In his APOLOGY, Sec. 6, Mr. Burgess, a Protestant, says of the English Protestant
version: How shall I approve, under my hand, a translation which has many omissions,
many additions; which sometimes obscureth, sometimes perverteth the sense, being
sometimes senseless, sometimes contrary?" So the prohibition of the Catholic Church
against Bible reading had reference to the reading of faulty translations of the
Scriptures. Such faulty translations are not surprising, as the devil, too, quotes the
Scriptures dishonestly:

In Matthew 4:1-11, we read: "At that time, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert, to
be tempted by the devil... Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, and set Him
upon the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him: if thou be the Son of God, cast thyself
down. For it is written: That he hath given his angels charge over thee.

"This we read in the 9Oth Psalm; but there the prophecy was not spoken of Christ, but
of the just man; so the DEVIL HAS QUOTED THE SCRIPTURES DISHONESTLY. As
Satan changes himself into an angel of light, and even from the Holy Scriptures
prepares snares for Christians, so now he uses the testimonies of Scripture itself not to
instruct, BUT TO DECEIVE.