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Margaret Deansley discusses this passage in context in “The Lollard Bible and other Medieval Versions”, p. 5. You can get a view of a few pages of it from Google Books if you search the phrase (keeping the quotes) “the whole Bible was long before his days by virtuous and well learned men translated into the English tongue”. The passage is from More’s “Dialogue Concerning Heresies” (1529). The modern edition is in “The Complete Works of St. Thomas More” (ed. Lawler, Marc’hadour, Marius) (Yale, 1981) v. 6, pt. 1 starting around p. 200.
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John
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I cannot locate this quotation of Thomas More using the parenthetical citational "Dialogues III". I live in a town with a soya bean on the water tower. Our 1965 complete works of Thomas More is missing more volumes than it has. I want to see the context of this quotation to determine the weight of its polemical tone. I find no documentary witness to verify the statement, though my history of the English Translation of the Bible through Wycliffe will have nearly 80 online manuscript facsimiles. Please direct me to something online if possible.
Bruce Metzger and many other credible scholars believe Wycliffe's was the first whole-Bible English translation.
"The whole Bible long before Wycliff's day was by virtuous and well-learned men translated into the English tongue, and by good and godly people with devotion and soberness well and reverently read" ( Dialogues III ).
TBob
Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D.
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University of Tennessee at Martin
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