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Is it clear that the quotation is referring to a "single" work or project? Could it mean that all the pieces have been translated at some time or other so that it is all available now?

An analogy would be the ancient "Septuagint" which was a collection of various pieces of the Jewish scriptures that came to be translated at various times and places and collected at some point, but were not the product of one group or location. Similarly with the "Old Latin" materials.
 
Bob Kraft, emeritus UPenn

On 3/12/2013 10:51 PM, Bob Peckham wrote:
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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.
Professor of French
University of Tennessee at Martin
Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy
Director, Globe-gate Intercultural Web Project

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