The Man Who Could Not Keep Silent

William Tyndale could read the Bible in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. But that wasn't enough. While serving as a tutor in a Gloucestershire manor in the early 1520s, he sat at table with local clergymen who barely knew Scripture themselves. Meanwhile, the plowmen and servants working the surrounding fields had no access to God's word in their own language. Something kindled in Tyndale that no threat could extinguish — God's word had been written on his heart, and he could not keep it locked inside.…