To which may be added the testimony of the present Bishop of Durham, who speaks of Tyndale’s work thus: “In rendering the sacred text, he remained throughout faithful to the instincts of a scholar. From first to last his style and his interpretation are his own; and in the originality of Tyndale is included in a large measure the originality of our English Version. For not only did Tyndale contribute to it directly the substantial basis of half the Old Testament (in all probability) and of the whole of the New, but he established a standard of Biblical translation which others followed. It is even of less moment that by far the greater part of his translation remains intact in our present Bibles, than that his spirit animates the whole. He toiled faithfully himself, and where he failed he left to those who should come after the secret of success.... His influence decided that our Bible should be popular, and not literary, speaking in a simple dialect, and that so, by its simplicity, it should be endowed with permanence.” Mr. Froude’s testimony may perhaps be added here, not because it is requisite, but as the historian’s tribute to a noble man: “Of the translation itself, though since that time it has been many times revised and altered, we may say that it is substantially the Bible with which we are all familiar. The peculiar genius--if such a word may be permitted--which breathes through it, the mingled tenderness and majesty, the Saxon simplicity, the preternatural grandeur, unequalled, unapproached in the attempted improvements of modern scholars, all are here, and bear the impress of the mind of one man--William Tyndale.” As an example of this identity we take a passage from Tyndale’s version; the words in italics remain as Tyndale placed them in both the Authorised and Revised Versions. The passage that we select is Matt. xviii. 19-27:-- “_Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree_ in _earth_ in _any_ manner _thing_ whatsoever _they shall_ desire, _it shall be_ given _them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them._ “_Then came Peter to him, and said_, Master, _how oft shall my brother_ trespass _against me and I_ shall _forgive him_? shall I forgive him _seven times_? _Jesus_ said _unto him, I say not unto thee seven times, but seventy times seven_ times. _Therefore is the Kingdom of Heaven likened unto a certain King which would_ take account of _his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him which owed him ten thousand talents: but_ when _he had_ nought _to pay_, the _lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and his children and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant fell down and_ besought _him saying_, Sir, give _me_ respite, _and I will pay_ it every whit. Then had _the Lord_ pity on the _servant_ and loosed _him and forgave him the debt_.”