Chapter 11 Fulfilling Wycliffe's Dream

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Reformation ideas were linked to political rebellions in the minds of many people because
a. Leading reformers were encouraging the people to rise up and rebel against the government.
b. Rebellions were often led by men who used Reformation slogans in their speeches.
c. The people could finally read the Bible for themselves and the Bible encourages violent rebellion.
In 1381, peasants rebelled over taxes in England. Who did they blame for much of their suffering?
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What was totally banned in 1407 by the authority of the archbishop of Canterbury?
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Tyndale felt that winning the English people over to reformation truth depended on what?
a. Convincing the archbishop of Canterbury that reform was needed.
b. Educating the common people in Latin.
c. Getting the Bible into English, the common language of the people.
Tyndale had to go to Europe because
a. No printer in England was willing to risk his life to print scriptures in English.
b. He went there to further his study of Hebrew and Greek.
c. He wanted to contact other European reformers who could help him.
In one early printing of his New Testaments, Tyndale got funds from
a. A rich patron in Antwerp, Belgium.
b. A man who had come to destroy the Bibles.
c. A duke in Germany.
John Wycliffe had translated the Bible into English from what language? __________________________
Tyndale translated his New Testament from the language of ___________________
making his Bible the first ____________________________________________________.
_____% of the entire King James Bible is Tyndale's work.
_____% of the King James New Testament is Tyndale's work.
Short words in English tend to mean that the word is an _______________________ word.
What name for God did Tyndale construct from his understanding of the Hebrew? _____________________
Of the Tyndale phrases listed in the book, list two here that you are especially familiar with:
1._______________________________________________________
2._______________________________________________________
What was meant by the word "penance"?
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We have a kind of protection against a serious mistranslation of the Bible in the fact that
a. We have better and more accurate scholars today
b. Our translators do not have any biases or prejudices which could affect their work of translating scripture.
c. We have so many translations that we can compare them and see what is most accurate for ourselves.

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