by Herbert Samworth | Feb 24, 2011 | Reformers
THE SECOND EDITION NEW TESTAMENT – by Dr. Herbert Samworth The months after the death of Frith were difficult for Tyndale. Not only did he lose the help of a trusted companion, what did his death communicate about the continued opposition to the Word of...
by Herbert Samworth | Sep 3, 2010 | Reformers
EVENTS AFTER 1530 – by Dr. Herbert Samworth Following the printing of the Pentateuch in 1530 we do not know much about Tyndale’s activities for a period of time. There was no doubt that he continued his work of translation. Perhaps this was when he began his...
by Herbert Samworth | Jul 23, 2010 | Reformers
THE PENTATEUCH – by Dr. Herbert Samworth Finding that the situation had calmed down in Antwerp, Tyndale returned to the city sometime in 1529. Antwerp provided a number of advantages for Tyndale. First, it would be safer because the city did not have a cathedral...
by Herbert Samworth | Mar 13, 2010 | Reformers
TYNDALE AND HIS TRACTS – by Dr. Herbert Samworth Before Tyndale departed from Worms, he issued his first tract, exclusive of his translations of the Word of God. It was entitled a Compendious introduction, prologue or preface of Paul to the Romans. This is the...
by Herbert Samworth | Mar 6, 2010 | Reformers
TYNDALE IN WORMS – by Dr. Herbert Samworth After their effort to have the New Testament printed in Cologne was frustrated, William Tyndale and William Roye fled up the Rhine River to the city the Worms. Just five years before, Martin Luther had taken his noble...
by Herbert Samworth | Feb 27, 2010 | Reformers
TYNDALE IN GERMANY – by Dr. Herbert Samworth If the earlier events of Tyndale’s life can only be sketched in outline, the years after his departure from England in late 1523 or early 1524 provide even more of a puzzle. We know that Tyndale came to the conclusion...
by Herbert Samworth | Feb 20, 2010 | Reformers
TYNDALE IN LONDON – by Dr. Herbert Samworth In the rehearsal of William Tyndale’s period of residence in London, we have as many of the original sources as for any time of his life. In his prologue to the books of Moses, published in Antwerp in 1530, Tyndale...
by Herbert Samworth | Feb 13, 2010 | Reformers
LITTLE SODBURY MANOR – by Dr. Herbert Samworth The narration of Tyndale’s life has brought us to the year 1521. We are now on firmer ground as regards his activities. In that year he left Cambridge University and returned to his ancestral home – Gloustershire....
by Herbert Samworth | Feb 6, 2010 | Reformers
TYNDALE AT CAMBRIDGE – by Dr. Herbert Samworth In our first study of Tyndale’s life, we have traced his birth, upbringing, and education at Oxford University. This brought us to the year 1516 and William Tyndale would have been about twenty-two years of age. The...
by Herbert Samworth | Jan 30, 2010 | Reformers
TYNDALE’S BIRTH AND EDUCATION – by Dr. Herbert Samworth Among many Christians the King James Bible is considered to be the standard of accuracy and scholarship. Yet, nearly eighty-five percent of its majestic prose of the New Testament is the work of an...
