The Translator They Burned
In 1536, William Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake outside Brussels. His crime? Translating the Bible into English so that, as he once...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24.
In 1536, William Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake outside Brussels. His crime? Translating the Bible into English so that, as he once told a clergyman, "the boy that driveth the plough" might know Scripture better than the priests. Church authorities had banned his work, burned his books in bonfires at St. Paul's Cross in London, and hunted him across Europe for over a decade.…
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