God’s Outlaw: William Tyndale

William Tyndale

Somehow I was reminded of William Tyndale today reading this post by a good sister Berean Wife, and how God had him do His will to translate the Bible and put it in our hands that we who today enjoy freedom to practice our faith might have full access to God’s Word. We are blessed that we live in such free environments, yet many take it for granted — their Bibles only sit pretty on the bookshelf while gathering dust as the minds of their owners grow dull from a lack of true meat (Hosea 4:6).

In fact, there’s no point mentioning Sola Scriptura when many who fall for false teachings and other heresies don’t even read the Bibles for themselves.

“Coincidentally”, I found the following video series on Tyndale’s life over at YouTube so I thought I’d share it. Consisting of 8 parts, the series is taken from the 1986 movie God’s Outlaw.

William Tyndale (c. 1494 – 1536) was a 16th-century Protestant reformer and scholar who translated the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. While a number of partial and complete Old English translations had been made from the seventh century onward, and Middle English translations particularly during the 14th century, Tyndale’s was the first English translation to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, and the first to take advantage of the new medium of print, which allowed for its wide distribution. In 1535 Tyndale was arrested, jailed in the castle of Vilvoorde outside Brussels for over a year, tried for heresy and then strangled and burnt at the stake.

Much of Tyndale’s work eventually found its way into the King James Version (or “Authorized Version”) of the Bible, published in 1611, which, as the work of 54 independent scholars revising the existing English versions, is to a large extent based on Tyndale’s translations. (Source)

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