of sources from which it drew. Beginning with the
devoted and inspired labors of Tindale, through him
it drew on the translations of Jerome, of Erasmus, of
Luther, and through Coverdale and his successors, it
drew on the Swiss-German version of Ziirich, on the
Latin translations of Pagninus, of Münster, of Tre-
mellius, of Leo Juda, of Castalio, and of Theodore
Beza, and on the French translations of Lefèvre and
Olivetan, and of the "venerable company of pastors
at Geneva," besides occasional phrases from new
translations into Spanish and Italian. It gathered
its materials wherever they could be found, adopting
here a word and there a phrase in order to arrive
at the closest and most expressive English within
their power. Nothing is more remarkable in the his-
tory of our English Bible than this large-minded
and eager search, to which I shall presently recur,
through all the possible sources for anything that
would help towards the best translation into English;
and we may well suppose that this careful scrutiny
of so large a variety of sources, which is not par-
alleled in the history of any other Bible, did much to
give its permanence to the work of the translators.

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