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Supply and demand comprise a very powerful force, stronger than any individual or government.  Over time, supply and demand prevail, and ultimately the authorities endorsed the idea of an English translation of the Bible, leading to the printing of the magnificent King James Version (which was very similar to the Tyndale Bible) less than a century later, in 1611.  But the unstoppable effect of supply and demand did not occur soon enough to help Tyndale himself.  He kept improving his translation of the New Testament (his final version was completed in 1635) and also worked on completing his own translation of the Old Testament.  But he was captured in what is now Belgium, before he could translate all of the Old Testament.  His last words were "Lord, open the king of England's eyes" before he was executed as a heretic in 1536.  His assistant, Miles Coverdale, finished Tyndale's translation of the Old Testament and published the complete English Bible in 1537.  The King then approved it.

Supply and demand comprise a very powerful force, stronger than any individual or government.  Over time, supply and demand prevail, and ultimately the authorities endorsed the idea of an English translation of the Bible, leading to the printing of the magnificent King James Version (which was very similar to the Tyndale Bible) less than a century later, in 1611.  But the unstoppable effect of supply and demand did not occur soon enough to help Tyndale himself.  He kept improving his translation of the New Testament (his final version was completed in 1635) and also worked on completing his own translation of the Old Testament.  But he was captured in what is now Belgium, before he could translate all of the Old Testament.  His last words were "Lord, open the king of England's eyes" before he was executed as a heretic in 1536.  His assistant, Miles Coverdale, finished Tyndale's translation of the Old Testament and published the complete English Bible in 1537.  The King then approved it.

Six years later (in 1543) -- ''after'' King Henry VIII split from Rome and founded the Church of England -- the English Parliament passed a law that censored English Bibles again, prohibited unlicensed reading of Scriptures in public, and caused English Bibles to be burned in London and translators to be arrested (one translator was executed, but Coverdale fled to Geneva, where John Calvin was).  The free market had more work to do before it prevailed.

But years ''after'' King Henry VIII split from Rome and founded the Church of England, the English Parliament passed a law in 1543 that censored English Bibles again, prohibited unlicensed reading of Scriptures in public, and caused English Bibles to be burned in London and translators to be arrested (one translator was executed, but Coverdale fled to Geneva, where John Calvin was).  The free market had more work to do before it prevailed.

== The "Free Market" ==

== The "Free Market" ==