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1 | Pastors Ought Be Good Scholars of Bible | 2 Tim 4:13 | DocTrinsograce | 241613 | ||
"On which account, I beseech your lordship, even by the Lord Jesus, that if I am to pass the winter here, to urge upon the lord commissary, if he will deign [permit], to send me from my goods in his keeping a warmer cap, for I suffer greatly from cold in the head, being troubled with a continual catarrh, which is aggravated in this prison vault. A warmer coat also, for that which I have is very thin. Also cloth for repairing my leggings. I also ask for leave [permission] to use a lamp in the evening, for it is tiresome to sit alone in the dark. But ABOVE ALL, I beg and entreat your clemency earnestly to intercede with the lord commissary, that he would deign to allow me the use of my Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Grammar, and Hebrew Lexicon, and that I might employ my time with that study." --William Tyndale (1535), from a letter written by him while in prison for translating the Bible into the common language of the people (emphasis mine) |
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2 | Pastors Ought Be Good Scholars of Bible | 2 Tim 4:13 | jeremiah1five | 241616 | ||
If I may...every born again Christian is supposed to be theologians and know what the truth of the Word of God says. Everyone. | ||||||
3 | Pastors Ought Be Good Scholars of Bible | 2 Tim 4:13 | DocTrinsograce | 241618 | ||
Hi, Jer... There is a reason that the pastoral epistles are called pastoral. The calling of the pastor by the Head of the Church for the tending of the flock is one that rightly should be accompanied by study. Those who teach ought themselvels to be men who learn and are learning. Nonetheless, Wycliffe -- following the pattern we see in Paul in the verse above -- was instrumental in accomplishing the very thing that you want us to remember. The ignorance of the Bible, by clergy and laity alike, was something that Tyndale could not abide. His efforts to present the Word in the common tongue of everyone -- something for which he was executed -- have contributed directly to the privilege of our deliberations of the Bible that we enjoy here today. Indeed, once Tyndale expressed to a priest, "If God spare my life, ere many years pass, I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scriptures than thou dost." You can read a bit more about William Tyndale briefly here: http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1501-1600/translator-william-tyndale-strangled-and-burned-11629961.html Foxe's Book of Martyrs (chapter VII) is another interesting read concerning this scholar that God used to so richly. Those who have gone before us, though dead, yet they still speak. In Him, Doc |
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