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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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CAP. XII.

1   Forsothe in that tyme My&yogh;hel shal rijse, the grete prince, that stondith for sonys of thi peple. And tyme shal cum, what maner was not, fro that sithen folkis bygunen for to be, vn to that tyme. And in that tyme thi peple shal be saued, eche that shuln be founden wrijten in the boke of lijf. 2   And manye of these that slepten in dust of erthe, shuln wake out, other in to euerlastinge lyf, and othere in to shenship, that thei se euermore. 3   Forsothe thei that shuln be tau&yogh;t men, or wijse, shuln shyne as shynyng of the firmament, and thei that lernen, or enfourmen, manye to ri&yogh;twijsnesse, as sterris in to euerlastyngnessis. 4   Forsothe thou, Danyel, close the wordis, and seale the boke, vn to the tyme ordeynyd;

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ful manye shuln passe, and science manyfold shal be. 5   And Y, Danyel, saw&yogh;, and loo! as two other stoden; oon stode on this syde, vpon the ryuere of floode, and an other on that syde, on the tother part of the floode. 6   And I sayde to the man, that was clothid with lynnen, whiche stode vpon the watris of the floode, Hou longe the eende of these merueylis? 7   And Y herde the man, that was clothid in lynnen, whiche stode vpon watris of the floode, whann he hadde reyside vp his ri&yogh;t and left half in to heuen, and swore by the lyuynge in to with outen eende, For in to tyme, and tymys, and the half of tyme. And whan scateryng abrood of the lond of holy peple shal be fulfillid, alle these thingus shuln be eendid. 8   And Y herde, and vndirstode not; and saide, My lord, what shal be after these thingus? 9   And he saith, Go thou, Danyel, for the wordis ben closid and sealid, vn to tyme ordeynyd. 10   Thei shuln be chosen, and be maad whijt, and as fijr many shuln be proued, and vnpytous men shuln do vnpytously, nether alle vnpitouse men shuln vndirstonde; forsothe tau&yogh;t men shuln vndirstonde. 11   And fro tyme in whiche contynuel sacrifice shal be don awey, and abomynacioun in to desolacioun shal be sett, days a thousand two hundrid and nynty. 12   Blessid is he, that abydith, and fully cummeth, vn to days a thousand thre hundrid and thritty and fyue. 13   Forsothe

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go thou to determynd; and thou shalt reste a&yogh;ein, and shalt stonde in thi sort, or part, in the eende of days. Hidre to we reeden Danyel in Ebru; other thingis that suen, til in to the eende of the boke, ben translatid of the making of Theodosyon.
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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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