Hvor dyrt er Guds Ord?

Vet du - hvem som fikk trykket opp de første engelske Nye Testamentene? - at han hadde oversatt dem selv? - at han ble dømt til døden for kjetteri? - at han "lærte" det engelske folk, inkludert Shakespeare, å lese? - at over 85 % av N.T og den første halvdelen av G.T. i King James versjonen (KJV)av 1611, er en kopi av denne mannens oversettelse fra hebraisk i 1530-årene? William Tyndale var født ved Wales’ grenser i ca 1494. Han snakket fransk, gresk, hebraisk, tysk, italiensk, latinsk og spansk flytende I tillegg til hans morsmål som var engelsk. Her er litt av hva du kan finne om livet hans på internett: Tyndale was brought up from a child in the University of Oxford This good man and faithful minister of Christ, was stirred up of God to translate the Bible into English: he was convinced that the way to God was through His word, and had to be available even to common people. John Fox writes: One day, at dinner, Tyndale announced to a visiting clergyman: "If God spare my life, I will cause a boy that drives the plough to know more of the Scripture than thou dost." Tyndale’s 1526 New Testament was the first ever printed in English. Because of persecution they were printed in Worms, Germany. More than 3 000 New Testaments were smuggled into England in ships in bales of cloth. Those who bought them, and were discovered, were punished. In the 1530’s he also translated the first fourteen books of the Old Testament. He was the first who translated anything from Hebrew into English. According to Fox, he wrote to John Frith: "I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day..." Eventually, he was betrayed and arrested in Antwerp in 1535. He was kept in custody in a castle near Brussels. The prison guards have said: “If he were not a good Christian man, we know not whom they may take to be one.” He was tried on a charge of heresy in 1536 and condemned to the stake. He was strangled, and his dead body was burnt, on 6 October 1536. His final words were: "Oh Lord, open the King of England's eyes".