From: Glenn Morton (glennmorton@entouch.net)
Date: Sun Sep 21 2003 - 09:07:57 EDT
I probably am confusing him with Tyndale. I didn't go check things out.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Murphy [mailto:gmurphy@raex.com]
>Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 6:12 AM
>To: Glenn Morton
>Cc: asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: royalty
>
>
>Glenn Morton wrote:
>>
>> George wrote:
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
>> >Behalf Of George Murphy
>> >Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 6:35 PM
>>
>> > I'll be happy to when I meet them. Disseminating an
>> >unauthorized translation of
>> >the Bible would get you into trouble. & both Wycliffe & Wishart
>> >disagreed with Rome on
>> >other matters.
>>
>> Agreed, but Wycliffe was kidnapped out of Amsterdam (I believe)
>because he
>> was shipping bibles to England. The main thing he wanted was for
>the average
>> person to read the Bible for himself. To stop that, the
>authorities killed
>> him. If he hadn't been doing that, he probably would have been safe in
>> otherwise tolerant Holland.
>
> Wycliffe was not executed - though I'm not sure whether he
>literally "died in
>bed." He was condemned posthumously by the Council of Constance &
>~40 years after his
>death his bones were dug up & burned. You may be confusing him
>with Tyndale, who was
>sending Bibles to England & was betrayed to RC authorities in
>Belgium & burned.
>
> Shalom,
> George
>
>--
>George L. Murphy
>gmurphy@raex.com
>http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>
>
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