To the Editor of the "Nonta-Cama Dairy News."
While thanking you for the y of your columns, may I on it once more to correct an absurd slip of which I have been guilty in writing to you. on the Bible, I have written, " Luth In the fifth raph of my letter
German and Wyclif's English Version followed the text of Erasmus." Of if's" I should have Kngland owed much to Wyolif, for his Version of the B uly a manuscript, as time no art of puntis ult was that it was made from the Latin Vulgate, not from the Greek. There wore sufficient reasons why Wyolif could not have translated from Erasmus' Greek text.
Wyolif, like most parish priests of his time, throughout the Catholic Church, could not read either Hebrew or Greek, The Latin Vulgate was all be know. But there wore atill more conclusive reasons. The Greek text of Erasmus was published in 1516 4, while Wyclif had died in 1384, that is, 134 ears before, To make assurance doubly dug up, burned, ashes scattered forty years th, in pursuance of the de-Council of Constance, which condemned him as a heretic.
Tt was, of course, Tyndale who, on the appearance of Erssmus' printed Greek text in 1516, promptly translated it into Eoglish. Less fortunate than Wyclif, his condemnation was pronounced in his lifetime, and he was strangled and burned as the reward of his pious labours. His transition was printed in 1625, nearly s century and a half after the death of Wyel snd exactly a century after the burning of his bones.
I apologize for the slip I made in writing " Wyclif" instead of " Tyndale" only hope that the error was that probably no one was misled by it.
Tam, te, Tous C. Grnsox.
Swatow, June 27.
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Tw the Editor of the
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.