“William Tyndale desired to put the Bile in the hands of the common people. Speaking to the clergy of his day, he said, “If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough, shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost!” Tyndale achieved his goal, but in 1536 he was strangled, then burned at the stake as a heretic.
Nevertheless, much of Tyndale’s translation survived in the King James Bible, and his hope that the common people could study the Bible in English come to pass, as seen in the life of Joseph Smith, a young farm boy.”
Richard N. W. Lambert and Kenneth R. Mays, “400 Years of the King James Bible,” Ensign, August 2011, 45.
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