Tyndale's Words in Everyday English

Phrases we use daily — 'the salt of the earth', 'a law unto themselves', 'the powers that be' — were all coined by William Tyndale in his Bible translations. When you describe someone as 'the salt of the earth' or dismiss a rule-breaker as 'a law unto themselves', you are quoting William Tyndale. The scholar commemorated by the tower on Nibley Knoll did no...