Call Upon Him

[464 words] For the longest time people had no opportunity to hear the Word of God like we have opportunity today. Not only did this apply to those not trained in the Scriptures, but this applied to those who were supposed to lead and teach the people in matters pertaining to God. However, in a time when the Roman Catholic Church reigned supreme, and oppressively so, there were pockets within the larger local communities that sought to get the Word of God into the hands of the common folk. One such man was named John Wycliffe (1320-1384). He was not trained in the Greek and Hebrew languages (languages of the Bible), but he was informed well-enough from the Latin Bible that he desired to take the Latin Bible and translate it into the English language of his day. This he did. To give you a sense of the difficulty of…