Open the king’s eyes

Michael Haykin  |  Features  |  history
Date posted:  1 May 2017
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Open the king’s eyes

Henry VIII | photo: BBC

There is a portrait of William Tyndale that hangs in the dining-hall of Hertford College, Oxford.

His right hand in the painting is pointing to what appears to be a Bible, under which there is a Latin couplet, of which the translation runs thus:

To scatter Roman darkness by this light
The loss of land and life I’ll reckon slight.

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