But with it came persecution, according to the words of the Master: _The brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child_. A father exasperated because his son, a mere boy, had taken part in these holy readings, caught him by the hair, and put a cord round his neck to hang him.[471] In all the towns and villages of Tyndale's country the holy pages were opened, and the delighted readers found therein those treasures of peace and joy which the martyr had known. Many cried out with him, 'We know that this Word is from God, as we know that fire burns; not because any one has told us, but because a Divine fire consumes our hearts. O the brightness of the face of Moses! O the splendor of the glory of Jesus Christ, which no veil conceals! O the inward power of the Divine word, which compels us, with so much sweetness, to love and to do! O the temple of God within us, in which the Son of God dwells!'[472] Tyndale had desired to see the world on fire by his Master's Word, and that fire was kindled. The general dissemination of the Holy Scriptures forms an important epoch in the Reformation of England. It is like one of those pillars which separate one territory from another. Here, for the moment, we suspend our course, and repose for a brief space ere we turn our steps to other countries. [441] Tyndale, _Doctrinal Treatises_, p. 18. [442] '_The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke_, by Willyam Tyndale, and finished in the yere of our Lord God M.D. anno xxv.' There is a copy of it in the Cambridge Library. In this edition Tyndale wrote, 'faether, maester, sayede,' &c., instead of 'father, master, said.' [443] Foxe, _Acts_, vi. p. 591. [444] Tyndale's _Works_, vol. i. pp. 131, 161, 148; vol. iii. pp. 136, 139. [445] Mr. Christopher Anderson, who has displayed such a combination of learning and discernment in his work entitled _The Annals of the English Bible_, comes to no decision as to the place of impression. He only remarks that if we examine well the capital letters, initials, &c., we may now be able to name the printing office from which that volume proceeded. [446] Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 127. [447] Tyndale, _Doctrinal Treatises_, p. 83. [448] Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 127. [449] Pythagoras in the _Epicteti Enchir._ p. 334. [450] Anderson, _Annals of the English Bible_, i. p. 427. [451] 'Let not to take pains with loss of time in his own business.'—Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 124. [452] 'Master Tyndale should have been delivered to him.'—_Ibid._ [453] 'He knew no other remedy but to accuse Poyntz.'—Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 430. [454] Tyndale, _Works_, ii. pp. 195, 251. [455] Tyndale, _Works_, ii. pp. 195, 251. [456] _State Papers_, vii. pp. 662, 663, 665. [457] _Ibid._ ix. pp. 662-664. [458] Letter to Cholerus. Erasmus died shortly after, on the 12th of July, 1536. [459] Foxe, _Acts_, v. p. 127. Urkunden des Augsburg Reichtages, ii. p. 719. [460] Tyndale, _Works_, i. p. 294.