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The majority of A Pathway into the Holy Scripture was first prepared as the Prologue to Tyndale’s early translation of the New Testament (Cologne, 1525). The Prologue was subsequently modified and published as a separate tract about 1530. In this piece, Tyndale draws upon the Vorrhede [Preface] to Martin Luther’s 1522 New Testament. yet he enlarges upon the German Reformer’s work: “What in Luther’s Bible is barely seven pages was expanded by Tyndale into a full fourteen.” (David Daniell, William Tyndale: a Biography [New Haven: Yale, 1994], p. 119-120).
The Pathway was published in a blackletter edition in 1536; it was reprinted in 1573, and it was included in the collected edition of Tyndale’s works, vol. 1, published by the Parker Society in the volume titled Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures (edited by Henry Walter; Cambridge, 1848). The present edition primarily follows the text of 1536 edition; it has been edited to reflect greater conformity to contemporary spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar.
Original text is in the public domain. Copyright © 2022 by Protestant Heritage Press: preface and comments. Revised and reprinted by Chapel Library with permission, 2024.
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