The Translator They Burned at the Stake
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake outside Brussels, strangled, and burned. His crime was translating the Bible into English so that,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24.
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake outside Brussels, strangled, and burned. His crime was translating the Bible into English so that, as he once told a clergyman, "the boy that driveth the plough" could know Scripture as well as any priest. Church authorities had banned his work, burned his books, and hunted him across Europe for nearly a decade.…
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