Today's promise: God's timing is perfect
Never disappointed
Every day I call to you,
my God, but, you do not answer. Every night you hear my voice, but I find no
relief. Yet you are holy. The praises of Israel surround your throne. Our
ancestors trusted in you, and you rescued them. You heard their cries for help
and saved them. They put their trust in you and were never disappointed.
Psalm 22:2-5 NLT
The fugitive translator
William Tyndale was born
about 1494 and educated first at Oxford, where he was ordained into the
priesthood, then at Cambridge, where he joined the Reformation. He became
convinced that England would never be evangelized using Latin Bibles. Tyndale's
efforts to get permission to translate the Bible into English were
unsuccessful, so he left England.
His first English New
Testament was printed in Germany in 1525. As Tyndale's English Bibles were
smuggled into England, the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of London
began attacking him fiercely. On June 18, 1528 Thomas Wolsey, the
English cardinal, ordered Tyndale's arrest and extradition to England. It took
seven years to track him down, then spent eighteen months in a cold castle
dungeon.
Tyndale, in his early
forties, was found guilty and condemned to death as a heretic. Referring to the
king's opposition to his English Bible, Tyndale said, "Lord, open the king
of England's eyes."
The year that Tyndale
died, there were two English Bibles containing his translation of the New
Testament. When presented to Henry VIII, the king, not realizing it contained
Tyndale's work, proclaimed, "In God's name let it go abroad among the
people."
Tyndale's Bible
translations were his lasting legacy. They were so well done that they made up
90 percent of the wording of the King James Version published nearly one
hundred years later.
Adapted from The One Year® Book of Christian History by E.
Michael and Sharon Rusten (Tyndale, 2003), entry for June 18.
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
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