SOURCE: Daniell, David. “The Wicked Mammon.” In William Tyndale: A Biography, pp. 155-73. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1994.

In the following essay, Daniell considers Tyndale's work The Parable of the Wicked Mammon as “an exposition of the New Testament teaching that faith is more important than works” and asserts that it is “loosely based on a sermon by Luther.”

We next hear of Tyndale in Antwerp, that tight, thriving city of trade and commercial enterprise. We do not know when he left Worms or where he was in the two years between the issuing of the Worms New Testament and the Compendious Introduction in 1526 and 8 May 1528 when his next book, The Parable of the Wicked Mammon, was printed in Antwerp. One thread of evidence has him in Hamburg with Miles Coverdale at some point, but that is associated with the translation of the Pentateuch, and probably belongs...