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🗓️ 27 December 2017
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Only one of William Tyndale's letters has survived throughout the years. On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Dr. Stephen Nichols discusses what Tyndale wrote when he was a prisoner at Vilvoorde Castle in Belgium.
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0:00.0 | There are many surviving books of William Tindale. Of course, the most famous one is the Tindale Bible. |
0:07.0 | But in terms of material from his own hand, there is only a single letter that survives. It was written in Latin and it |
0:16.2 | was written while Tindale was a prisoner in the castle at Ville Vourde about six |
0:21.5 | miles north of Brussels. This castle was built in the Middle Ages in 1374, |
0:28.0 | and while it might sound romantic, it certainly wasn't. It had a lot of cold and dingy dungeon basements and that's where Tindale was and |
0:37.6 | that will shed some light on this letter that he wrote. Again it's the only surviving letter from Tindale, |
0:44.0 | and I will read it to you in full. |
0:46.7 | It sounds a little familiar to Paul's last words |
0:49.8 | in 2nd Timothy. |
0:51.0 | Here we go. |
0:52.2 | I believe, right, Worshipful, that you are not ignorant of what has been determined concerning |
0:56.9 | me, therefore I entreat your lordship, and that by the Lord Jesus that if I am to remain here in the Villevorta Castle during the winter, you will request |
1:06.5 | the commissary to be kind enough to send me for my goods which he has in his possession |
1:12.2 | a warmer cap, for I suffer extremely from cold |
1:15.5 | in the head being afflicted with a perpetual guitar, which is an inflammation in the nose or throat, which is considerably increased in this cell. |
1:26.0 | A warmer coat also for that which I have is very thin. |
1:29.8 | Also a piece of cloth to patch my leggings. |
1:32.4 | My overcoat is worn out, my shirts are also worn out. |
1:36.7 | He has a woolen shirt of mine if he will be kind enough to send it. |
1:40.3 | I have also with him leggings of thicker cloth for putting on above. He is also warmer night caps. |
1:46.0 | I wish also his permission to have a lamp in the evening, |
1:49.0 | for it is wearisome to sit alone in the dark. |
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