A year after Tyndales’s death, English reformer John Rogers edited a compilation of Tyndale and Coverdale’s translation work and published the Matthew Bible. At Thomas Cranmer’s request, Henry VIII authorized that this Bible, revised by Coverdale and called the "Great Bible," be bought and read throughout the realm.
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