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Tyndale was born in Gloucestershire and attended Oxford and Cambridge, where the spirit of the recently departed Erasmus still glowed.
The publication in 1500 of Erasmus' Adagia brought about a trend to translate Latin and Greek proverbs and quotations into national languages.
This error is a perpetuation of Erasmus, who published his Adagia (1500) in which, inter alia, appears the Pandora story in which he mistakes πυξις ( pyxis ) a smallish boxwood box for πιθος, the largest wine storage container.
Charles Darwin also stuttered; interestingly, his grandfather Erasmus Darwin suffered from the same condition, highlighting the fact that stuttering runs in families and is likely to have a genetic basis.
Ithought we'd settled the fight between free will and predestination with a sophomore reading of Erasmus, but lately, it's popping up all over life's syllabus.