of God, and then burned his body. At the stake he cried: "Lord, open the
King of England's eyes!" Upon Tyndale's version of the Bible the King
James translation is solidly based. "It is astonishing," says Dr.
Geddes, a profound scholar, "how little obsolete the language of it is,
even at this day; and, in point of perspicuity and noble simplicity,
propriety of idiom, and purity of style, no English version has yet
surpassed it." Of course our language has changed greatly in 400 years.
Yet