William Tyndale on the person of Christ
One person in two natures, unconfused and undivided
And thus we have in plain and open words a manifest article of our faith, that our Saviour Christ is very God and very man.
THE POSITION
One Christ, very God and very man, read off the opening of 1 John: "that which was from the beginning" testifies that he is God, and "which we heard, and saw with our eyes, and our hands handled" that he is man. His prologue to John names the two errors the evangelist wrote against, one denying Christ to be very God and the other very man, and later in the 1 John exposition he that the devil's whole study is to destroy trust in what Christ suffered "in his flesh."
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life. 2 And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE
English translator of the New Testament from Greek and of the Pentateuch from Hebrew, working in exile in the Low Countries, whose wording runs through the King James Version. He was strangled and burned at Vilvoorde in 1536. He was also the first English Protestant theologian of weight, defending justification by faith, the authority of Scripture over the church, and the obedience owed to kings. This entry rests on the Obedience of a Christian Man, the Answer to Sir Thomas More, the Brief Declaration of the Sacraments, the exposition of 1 John and his biblical prologues, all in the Parker Society edition (1848–1850).
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"William Tyndale on the person of Christ", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/tyndale/christology (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/tyndale/christology).