by Herbert Samworth | Mar 5, 2019 | Reformers
HIS LEGACY – by Dr. Herbert Samworth • How is it possible to even think of writing a legacy of such a person as William Tyndale? In many ways he is the father of the English Bible. While it is true that John Wycliffe was the first to translate the Bible into the...
by Herbert Samworth | Jan 13, 2019 | Reformers
HIS EXECUTION – by Dr. Herbert Samworth • Despite the efforts of Latomus, Doyle, and Tapper to have him recent, Tyndale stood firm against their arguments. The only way by which Tyndale could counter their arguments was from his knowledge of Scripture,...
by Herbert Samworth | Dec 5, 2018 | Reformers
HIS IMPRISONMENT – by Dr. Herbert Samworth • As we have seen from our previous installment of the life of William Tyndale, he was betrayed and arrested in May 1535. He was taken to the Vilvorde Prison where he would be incarcerated for the remaining...
by Herbert Samworth | Sep 30, 2018 | Reformers
HIS ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT – by Dr. Herbert Samworth • By the year 1534 William Tyndale could look back with a degree of gratitude and accomplishment. He had finished the translation and printing of the New Testament in 1526 and a second revised edition...
by Herbert Samworth | Jul 28, 2018 | Reformers
WILLIAM TYNDALE AND SIR THOMAS MORE – by Dr. Herbert Samworth When we last noticed William Tyndale, he had completed the publication of the Pentateuch in 1530 and his revised second edition of the New Testament in 1534. We must pause in our narrative of...
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 | Apr 16, 2010 | Reviews
A book review by Dr. Herbert Samworth This is the review of the first of the three books authored by J. F. Mozley and deals with the life of William Tyndale. When the Society for Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) published the book in 1937 it was the first...
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...
