The Translator's Unfinished Bible
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake near Brussels, strangled, and burned for the crime of translating Scripture into English. His final...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14.
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake near Brussels, strangled, and burned for the crime of translating Scripture into English. His final words rang out across the courtyard: "Lord, open the King of England's eyes!" The work that had consumed his life — putting God's Word into the language of plowboys and merchants — lay unfinished. Tyndale had completed the New Testament and portions of the Old, but the full English Bible remained incomplete.…
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