Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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[Prologue on the First book of Paralipomenon.]
This book of Paralipomenon, the firste, bigynneth at Adam, rehersynge the ri&yogh;t
lyne of generacioun in to Abraham, and alle the sones of Abraham, and the sones
of hem, touchinge schortli of Saul king, and afterward of Dauith; rehersinge many
thingis whiche ben not writen in the book of Kingis before, til to the regne of
kyng Salomon. Here endith the prologe, and here bigynneth the firste book of
Paralipomenon.
The Prolog in the first boke of Paralipomenon.
&YOGH;if the makynge of the seuenty remenours
abyde styll pure, and as it is
turned of hem in to Greek, my Chromati,
holiest and wysest of byschopis, in veyn
thou schuldist bydden me that I translate
to thee Ebreu volymes in Latyn word.
Forsothe that hath ocupied onys the eris
of men, and hath streynthid the feith
of the waxynge chirche, ri&yogh;twijs was also
with oure sylence to be apreued. Nowe
forsothe whan dyuerse saumplers ben
born for the dyuersite of regyouns, and
thilk olde germeyn translacyoun is corrupt
and defoulid, thou wenyst of oure
dome to ben, outher to schewen of manye
whiche be verrey, outher a new werk to
maken in old werk, the Jewis forsothe
scornynge, that, as it is seid, to fytche to
gyder ee&yogh;en of curluris. Alisaunder
and Egipt in their seuenty preysen
auctour Eusichy; Constantynople vnto
Antioche apreuith the saumpleris of martir
Lucyan; the mene prouynces bytwene
-- --
thes reden Palestynes bokis, the
whiche out trauayld of Origene, Eusebe
and Pamphilie pupplischeden; and al the
world bytwene hem selue in this thre
maner dyuersite fi&yogh;tith to gyder. And
certis Origenes not oonly exsaumplis
maad in oon of foure makyngis, `forn
a&yogh;eyn alle the wordis discryuynge, that
the oon discordynge, the tother betwene
hem silf acordynge, anoon be vndernomyn;
bot, that is of more hardynesse,
in the makynge of the seuenty he mengide
the makynge of Theodocioun, that is,
markynge that weren to lytyl with
sygnys of a sterre, and that weren seen
ouermych leid to, with lityl &yogh;erdis. &YOGH;if
thanne to other it was leful not to holden
that oons thei hadden taken; and aftir
seuenty lytyll sellis, the whiche with
outen auctour of the comoun ben boostid,
thei opneden alle the sellis, that forsothe
in the chirche is rad that the seuenty
knewyn not; why me taken not my
Latyn men, the whiche han maad so the
newe with the olde makynge vndefoulid,
that my traueyl I preue with the
Ebrewis, and, that is more than these,
with the Apostlis auctours. I wrote not
&yogh;ore a boke of the best maner of remenynge,
schewynge tho thingis of the
euangely, Fro Egipt I haue clepide myn
sone, and, That Na&yogh;are he schal be clepid,
and, Thei schul seen in whome thei hau02Q0009
pungid; and that of the apostle, That ee&yogh;e
hath not seen, ne ere hath herde, ne in to the
hert of man hath stey&yogh;ide up, the whiche
God hath maad redye before to the
louynge hym; and other lijc to thes, in
the bokis of Ebrewis to ben founden.
Certis the apostlis and the euaungelistis
hadden knowen the seuenty remenours,
and whenns that to hem to seyn tho
thingis that in the seuenty ben not had?
Crist, oure God, is maker of either testament,
in euangelie aftir Joon, Who
leuith, he seith, in me, as seith the
-- --
scripture, flodis of his wombe schul
flowen `quyke waters. Forsothe it is
writen, that the Saueoure witnessith to
ben writen; where it is writen, the
seuenty han not; the hyd thingis knowith
not the chirche. To the Ebrewis than
it is to turnen a&yogh;eyn, wherof and the Lord
spekith, and the disciplis beforn taken
exsaumplis. Thes thingis bi pese of olde
men I speke, and to my bacbyters oonly
I answer, the whiche gnawen me with a
dogge tothe, in opyn bacbytynge, reedynge
in corners, and acusatours and
defendours, whann in other men they
apreuen that in me thei repreuen; as
vertue and vice ben not in the thingis,
bot with the autour ben chaungid. Bot
I haue had mynde the makyng of the
seuenty translatours, sumtyme fro Greke
amendid, me to haue &yogh;euen to &yogh;oure, and
not enmye of hem owyn to ben eymed,
whome in the couent of bretheren euermore
I schal expownen. And that Debregemyn,
that is, the wordis of days,
I haue remened, therfore I haue don
that I my&yogh;te bryng to ri&yogh;t the insolible
lettyngis and the wodis of namys, the
whiche, thor&yogh; vice of writers, ben confoundid,
and the dulnes of wittis, more
opynly, and by distyncciouns of verse; to
me my silf and to my wrytynge aftir
Hismenyum, &yogh;if eris of other ben dowmbe.
-- --
An other Prolog.
The boke of Paralipomenon, that is,
the breggyng of the Olde Testament,
siche and so myche is, that with outen
it who so wyll by pride sechen to hym
the kunnynge of scriptures, scorne he
hym silf. Forsothe by alle the namys
and iuncturis of wordis, and the laft stories
in the bokis of Kyngis ben touchid,
and vnowmbrable questiouns of the euaungelies
ben soyled.
Here eendith the prolog in the first
boke of Paralipomenon, and bygynneth
the first boke of Paralipomenon.
Here bigynneth the bok of Paralipomenon.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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