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Catholics had been allowed to translate the Bible “into languages the laymen could understand” for 1000 years before Luther: • Syriac, 5th Century • Anglo-Saxon: * Caedmon, 7th century * Aldhelm, c. 700 * Venerable Bede, d. 735 * King Alfred the Great (849-99) * Aelfric (d. 1020) • Teutonic (old German), 8th century • Middle English: * Orm (late 12th century) * Richard Rolle (d. 1349) • French, 1297 • Between 1466 & 1517 fourteen translations of the Bible were published in High German & five in Low German • Between 1450 to 1520 there were ten French translations, & also Bibles rendered in Belgian, Bohemian, Spanish, Hungarian, & Russian. • 25 Italian versions (with express Church sanction) appeared before 1500, starting at Venice in 1471. https://t.co/2grBKcv7DU