Wesley Huff

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Yeah. Well, let's hope people in the future are still able to read the Declaration of Independence.

Yeah. Well, let's hope people in the future are still able to read the Declaration of Independence.

Yeah. Well, let's hope people in the future are still able to read the Declaration of Independence.

Stuff like that.

Stuff like that.

Stuff like that.

Yeah. Partly, I mean, there were proto-reformers before Luther, guys like Wycliffe. So John Wycliffe and William Tyndale both translated the Bible, parts of the Bible into English, and they predated. I mean, and they weren't very popular for it either. I mean, Wycliffe was declared a heretic, and then his body was exhumed and burned because of the work that he did.

Yeah. Partly, I mean, there were proto-reformers before Luther, guys like Wycliffe. So John Wycliffe and William Tyndale both translated the Bible, parts of the Bible into English, and they predated. I mean, and they weren't very popular for it either. I mean, Wycliffe was declared a heretic, and then his body was exhumed and burned because of the work that he did.

Yeah. Partly, I mean, there were proto-reformers before Luther, guys like Wycliffe. So John Wycliffe and William Tyndale both translated the Bible, parts of the Bible into English, and they predated. I mean, and they weren't very popular for it either. I mean, Wycliffe was declared a heretic, and then his body was exhumed and burned because of the work that he did.

Burned him after he was already dead. Yeah, well, Tyndale's line was that he wanted – I believe it was Tyndale. It was either Wycliffe or Tyndale. My friends who are specialists in this are going to get mad at me for this. But one of those two guys said that they wanted the plow boy to be able to read the Bible and know it as well as the priests.

Burned him after he was already dead. Yeah, well, Tyndale's line was that he wanted – I believe it was Tyndale. It was either Wycliffe or Tyndale. My friends who are specialists in this are going to get mad at me for this. But one of those two guys said that they wanted the plow boy to be able to read the Bible and know it as well as the priests.

Burned him after he was already dead. Yeah, well, Tyndale's line was that he wanted – I believe it was Tyndale. It was either Wycliffe or Tyndale. My friends who are specialists in this are going to get mad at me for this. But one of those two guys said that they wanted the plow boy to be able to read the Bible and know it as well as the priests.

And so that's that was their motivation is that they're like, you know, public education for literacy in these areas was largely because they just wanted people to read the Bible.

And so that's that was their motivation is that they're like, you know, public education for literacy in these areas was largely because they just wanted people to read the Bible.

And so that's that was their motivation is that they're like, you know, public education for literacy in these areas was largely because they just wanted people to read the Bible.

But that was a big motivation behind Luther was he's like, I'm going to translate this thing to German because part of his kind of kicking off of the what we call the Protestant Reformation was that he read the Bible in Greek. Because there was a guy named Desiderius Erasmus, who was a, they call them humanists, but it means something different than now.

But that was a big motivation behind Luther was he's like, I'm going to translate this thing to German because part of his kind of kicking off of the what we call the Protestant Reformation was that he read the Bible in Greek. Because there was a guy named Desiderius Erasmus, who was a, they call them humanists, but it means something different than now.