Beauties of the Truth A Forum for the Publication of Scriptural Viewpoints Thought to be Harmonious with God’s Plan of the Ages Volume 19, Number 2, May 2008

“ Towards God” (John 1:1) The efforts of the outstanding scholar and Christian John Wycliffe in the 1370’s produced the first English Bible translation still somewhat readable. Written by hand on costly parchment, these precious texts were concealed and carried throughout England by preachers willing to risk their lives so that God’s work could be made intelligible to the common people. With his characteristic intellectual boldness, Wycliffe in this earliest translation of John 1:1-2 broke with 900 years of tradition and the two times the Greek phrase “BD@H J@< 1gT