Matt Shamblin

Husband, Dad, Son, Pastor

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

John Wycliffe is one of my heroes. His passion, conviction, and desire to get the Word of God into the hands of the people. This week I was able to look at our earliest surviving copy of Wycliffe’s English Bible. The Wycliffe Bible was produced in the late 1300s, roughly 1382–1395, making it the first complete English rendering of the Bible, over 200 years before the King James Version of 1611. If you look closely you’ll notice it’s handwritten, not printed. Every copy had to be produced by scribes. This was before printing arrived in England, so owning a Wycliffe Bible meant owning a massive, labor-intensive manuscript. It became a medieval bestseller.

More than 250 Wycliffite Bible manuscripts survive, which is extraordinary for a banned or controversial medieval English text. Only about 20 of those are complete Bibles.The copy you see me looking at in this picture — one of two I was able to take a look at — includes Genesis to Isaiah. The other one was a Wycliffe New Testament from 1390. It was risky after 1408–1409 to produce and own one of these. The Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, Thomas Arundel, restricted unauthorized new Scripture translations and public reading of Wycliffe-associated texts. So later possession or use of these copies could become religiously dangerous, especially if linked with the Wycliffe followers, known as Lollards.

Also, take a look at the last image, a calendar at the front of the second smaller Wycliffe Bible we looked at, from 1390. At the bottoms of the page the scribe has written: “Anno Domini 1348, in festo Sancti Michaelis Magni, evenit prima pestilentia Londoni” — “In the year of our Lord 1348, on the feast of St. Michael the Great, the first plague occurred in London.”

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@iheartJ37 @tomascol @LucyLou6084 You’ve done a lot of work here to work around the plain distinction made by Paul between “men” and “women”. This is only a highly debated passage of Scripture for those who want to deny the plain reading.

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@iheartJ37 @tomascol @LucyLou6084 It’s a bit silly to ignore the context in which Paul draws a distinction between men and women.

“I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.” - (1 Timothy 2:12)

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@SteveDeaceShow @Josh_Ehrich It’s interesting how quickly libertarians throw out the label “heretic” when people disagree with their positions for theological reasons and then defend those positions with political reasons.

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@JeffNoffsinger @IMS @NASCAR I was there years ago and it was packed. It’s hard to see how few are there today

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The evangelical church by and large has propagated a faith of ignorance. Ignorance to the history of Christianity and an ignorance to faithful doctrine. Further salvation by works(which is what Roman Catholicism ultimately is), apart from grace appeals to the flesh.

[New York Post @nypost]

Catholicism sees major resurgence among Gen Z, led by men https://t.co/vtipiCmDTQ

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@poperespecter1 @Heidel_bro1563 False

[Kentucky Today @KyTodayEditor]

Kentucky pastor’s family desperately fights with ‘broken system’ https://t.co/TvBXpoahk5 via @kytodayeditor

[kay glory @kayglory10]

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Man, if this doesn’t make you proud to be an American, I don’t know what will!

[Sadie @Sadie_NC]

Your US military pilots.
The Raptor 22.
❤️❤️❤️

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@pastorclint A Coyote 5.0 with a Paxton Supercharger!

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz & the 7,000 starving prisoners inside

This was the first time that the horrors of the Holocaust were fully revealed to the world

Here is what the Soviets found in Auschwitz, where over 1 million were murdered

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@toddgray4 @SunriseKidsKY @KentuckyBaptist @SBCCP What a visionary leader Dale Suttles is! You can’t be around that guy for more that a minute without getting excited about what God is doing @SunriseKidsKY

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@ERLC How can this even be possible?