by Tim Challies
John Wycliffe’s body had been buried outside St. Mary’s Church for more
than forty years when his grave was disturbed. Upon the orders of Pope
Martin V, his remains were exhumed, his bones burned and the ashes
scattered on the river Swift. This act of desecration was deemed fitting
for one who had been posthumously condemned as a heretic. But, as
Donald Roberts says so eloquently, it was by no means the end of his
legacy for, “As history has revealed, Wycliffe's bones were much more
easily dispersed than his teachings, for out of a sea of controversy and
angry disputation rose his greatest contribution—the English Bible.”
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