Translator Martyr 

After reading The King James Bible After 400 Years and Reform and Reaction n Henrican English.  I learnt how we got the King James Bible. I thought it was interesting how all this bibles were made by people like Tyndale, who decided to risk their lives to translate the Bible and allow the English speaking people, to actually understand what they are reading.

First  thing I thought about while reading, was should Tyndale and Wycliffe who were murdered for translating the Bible, be consider as martyr, and from further research Tyndale is considered a martyr by the Christians, and became known as the Father of the Protestant Bible.

On the other hand Wycliffe died of natural causes, the religious authority did not cut ties with him, and take him to court to be sentenced. As they were afraid of the public opinion, people loved Wycliffe and he was also very famous internationally. However 30 years after he died a council of the religious authority decided to take revenge on him by banning all his book and burning his dead buried body. This act of them burning his remains, was seen as a form of martyrdom.

I feel like every translator knows that they are interpreters, as there is no translation without interpretation. And so Bible translators are like teachers in a sense as they are interpreting to us texts in the Bible, that us English speakers would not have understood if it was in Hebrew or Greek. Furthermore in James 3:1 states” not many of you should become teachers, because teachers will face a more severe judgment”. And this is exactly what happened to these translators, they face “sever Judgement” not from God but from man.