WORDS FROM THE MARBLE

#WILLIAM_TYNDALE ~ Th e man who translated the Bible into English and was burnt alive at the ridiculous young age of 42 years old, for his efforts. (Google Foxe's book of Martyrs.) Nearly 500 years ago, this week, William Tyndale, fondly called 'Father of the English Bible' was strangled and burned at the stake after being tried and convicted of heresy and reason for translating the Bible into English. HIS OFFENSE! He translated the Greek Bible into English. That you have a Bible in a language you can read is largely due to his labours, and many of the very phrases you read in it retain the flavour of his understanding of the Greek and Hebrew. A graduate of Oxford and Cambridge, Tyndale had a powerful desire to make the Bible available even to the common people in England, in order to correct the 'Biblical ignorance of the priests.' At one point Tyndale told a priest, "If God spares my life, are many years pass, I will cause a boy that drive...

WERE ÒYÙN 6 Alatise has written many quotes, this he wrote before his families came for him i could digest and was able to associate meaning to. "Those who failed, failed because they refused to plan, and those who fall, fall because they failed to heed advice. "Alatise just shot himself in the leg", i thought. "Had Alatise heed to advice too, he wouldn't have been a victim of circumstance". "Like what Uhmu Umar (my mother) used to tell me, "It's not advisable for he who is still alive to make mockery of the dead, for no one knows how death has planned to squeeze life out of him". So, i swallowed my opinion of his situation. Few months after Alatise's families came for him, i began to missed him. I didn't missed him because of his quotes, of course i wasn't a fan of it. All i did then was to read it and nothing more. His benign demeanor was what i actually missed. Had it been Alatise was healthy mentally, he would have be...

WERE ÒYÙN 5 Peju pleaded with all she knows, but i didn't dance to her tune. So, she picked her luggage up and left sorrowfully. Mina has dressed up when i entered the room. The look on her face wasn't the euphoric type. It was like that of a woman, who caught her husband with another woman in a brothel. "Who is that lady?", She inquired angrily. "You mean that uncultured lady that breezed in?", i replied. "Are you still asking me?", she raised her eyebrows. "Oh, i didn't tell you? She is my course mate. She has been disturbing me all this while...", I paused. "Disturbing you in what sense?, she asked. "She has been disturbing me that she wants me. She wants us to be dating", i expressed, stammering. "O' babe, why didn't you inform me before now, i would have deal with her", she worried. "smiles..., just let her go", i insisted. Unlike Mina that has friends and cousins around, P...

WERE ÒYÙN. PART 4 Throughout the day, my thought was fixed to the quote. Yet, i couldn't savour any meaning from it. "Don't be like that poor man, who later became rich and wanted to become God, for he was broken". I began to asked myself: who was that poor man, who later became rich and wanted to become, and was later broken? No! "this is out of it.", I halt bothering myself over the quote. " If Alatise is not this confused, how would one know he is a lunatic ", i thought and move on. Ever since Alatise chased Mina with plank, she has refused to pay me visit. Of course, i didn't blame her. Had i been in her shoe, i would have done more than not paying such friend visit anymore. I can't just imagine myself being chased by madman with plank, not even in my dream. Mina after her encounter with Alatise, we had resolved on using her room for the tutorial, but it couldn't work, for her room was just like a bazaar. They were four in t...

WERE ÒYÙN. PART 3 "Umar! come inside the room now", Peju requested. Fear hijacked me all over again. "How am i going to face her when i entered the room?", "Maybe i should just lower my gaze, but what if she asked me to read the contents of the piece to her ears? Ehn! i will just melt", range of thoughts began to visit my mind. Of course, i have gotten some words of courage from Alatise's quote, but that it wasn't enough. I wasn't an aficionado of motivational quotes, so i hardly get motivated by it. Besides, I was only astounded that Alatise could write, and whatever he writes did read my state of mind. I was still outside, rehearsing on how to face her when she called again. "Umar!" "I am on my way Peju", i began to walk slowly like a snail. When i got to the door, i halt and recited a verse from the Holy Book. Then, i opened the door and entered. I couldn't found Peju where she was when i came out. I turne...