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Rh style he is rivalled by his great enemy, the Chancellor. Never were two English writers better matched in fight than More and Tyndale; loud was the wrangling over the Reformer's rendering of the Greek Scriptural words charis, ecclesia, presbyteros, metanoia. All Greek scholars must see what an advantage Tyndale had over Wickliffe, when we read an absurd version of Wickliffe's in the parable of the son, who at first refused to work in his father's vineyard, but afterwards ‘stirid by penaunce’ went. The men that loved not the Reformation had a rooted mistrust of Tyndale's Bible. Long after the Martyr's death, Bishop Gardiner in 1542 brought for&shy;ward a list of 102 Latin words (so he called them), which ought to be retained in any English version ‘for the majesty of the matter in them contained.’ Among these majestic words were olacausta (sic), simulacrum, panis, peccator, zizania, hostia, and others of the like kind. It was a happy thing that the Bishop was