Do men die for that which they do not believe in? Absolutley not. Those who have been martyred and put in prison and tortured have endured such because they believed in something enough to endure it.
John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, John Huss, and John Bunyan were such men.
They believed that the common man should have the Bible in their own language and they were willing to spend years in prison, be burned at the stake and tortured as did scores of other believers to achieve that end.
How much blood was spilled to bring you the Bible in Hebrew? In Greek?
How much blood was spilled in order to bring you the Bible in English? Untold numbers of martyrs made the ultimate sacrifice to bring you the Bible in English.
In their day, Hebrew and Greek were still commonly taught and spoken, even in Europe. By the 17th century, Hebrew was a required language in the schools of those who had the means to have an education and the "learned men" had been fluent in speaking, writing, and translating Hebrew, and Greek and the oriental languages from their childhood.
Mighty men of God such as Wycliffe and Tyndale, and the many others spent their entire fortunes and died paupers to translate the Bible into English. As said before many lost their lives for this cause.
So I have to ask the question. If it is so vital to learn the original languages in order to get the fullest and most intimate sense of what God has to say to us, wouldn't these highly educated and righteous men have been more noble to lose their lives for the cause of bringing us the Bible in Hebrew and Greek?
Yet these men believed no such thing. They believed the Word of God for what it says. They knew the scriptures. Those who claim that a translation, especially the English translation is less than sufficient to bring to us the fullest sense of God's word, dishonour the blood of these martyrs, who are our brothers and sisters in the Lord who purchased us with his own blood.
Chuck Hilton
John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, John Huss, and John Bunyan were such men.
They believed that the common man should have the Bible in their own language and they were willing to spend years in prison, be burned at the stake and tortured as did scores of other believers to achieve that end.
How much blood was spilled to bring you the Bible in Hebrew? In Greek?
How much blood was spilled in order to bring you the Bible in English? Untold numbers of martyrs made the ultimate sacrifice to bring you the Bible in English.
In their day, Hebrew and Greek were still commonly taught and spoken, even in Europe. By the 17th century, Hebrew was a required language in the schools of those who had the means to have an education and the "learned men" had been fluent in speaking, writing, and translating Hebrew, and Greek and the oriental languages from their childhood.
Mighty men of God such as Wycliffe and Tyndale, and the many others spent their entire fortunes and died paupers to translate the Bible into English. As said before many lost their lives for this cause.
So I have to ask the question. If it is so vital to learn the original languages in order to get the fullest and most intimate sense of what God has to say to us, wouldn't these highly educated and righteous men have been more noble to lose their lives for the cause of bringing us the Bible in Hebrew and Greek?
Yet these men believed no such thing. They believed the Word of God for what it says. They knew the scriptures. Those who claim that a translation, especially the English translation is less than sufficient to bring to us the fullest sense of God's word, dishonour the blood of these martyrs, who are our brothers and sisters in the Lord who purchased us with his own blood.
Chuck Hilton
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