A small correction to David Heilpern’s article from last week to give credit where its due. Seventy-five years before the King James version these lines appeared in the Tyndale bible: ‘Ypocryte / first cast oute the beame oute of thyne awne eye / and then shalte thou se clearly to plucte oute the moote oute off thy brothers eye.’
Amongst William Tyndale’s other contributions to the English language were, ‘In the begynnynge’ and ‘let there be lyghte’, but for his efforts (quoting Wikipedia), ‘he was convicted of heresy and executed by strangulation, after which his body was burnt at the stake’.
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