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. XIII.
1 In the hundrid and nyne and fourtithe
&yogh;eer Judas knew&yogh;, Antiochus Eupator for
to cume with multitude a&yogh;einus Judee;
and with hym Lisias,
2 procuratoure and
prepoost of needis, with hym hauynge an
hundrid and ten thousand of foot men,
and of horsmen fyue thousand, and olyfauntis
two and twenti, chaaris with
sykelis three hundrid.
3 Forsothe and
Menelaus ioynyde hym to hem, and with
grete disceit bisou&yogh;te Antiochus, not for
helthe of the cuntree, bot hopynge hym
for to be ordeynd in to princehod.
4 Bot
the kyng of kyngis reiside the ynwittis
of Antiochus in to the synner; and Lisias
shewynge, or conseilynge at ere,
him for to be cause of alle yuels, he
comaundide, as custome is to hem, hym
-- --
taken to, for to be slayn in the same
place.
5 Sothely in the same place was a
toure of fifty cubitis, hauynge of eche syde
an gadryng of ashe; this hadde biholdynge
in to dounward.
6 Fro thennus he
comaundide the sacrileger, or cursid man,
for to be cast doun in to the ashe, alle
men puttynge hym forth to the deth.
7 And bi siche lawe it bifelle the breker of
lawe for to dye, nether Menelaus for to
be &yogh;ouen to erthe.
8 And forsothe iustly
ynow&yogh;; for whi for he dide many trespassis
a&yogh;einus the auter of God, whos fijr
and ashe was holy, he is dampnyd in
deth of ashe.
9 Bot the kyng with out
brydil in mynde, came to shewynge hym
wars to Jewis, than his fadir.
10 Whiche
thingis knowen, Judas comaundide the
peple ni&yogh;t and day for to ynclepe the
Lord; that as euermore, and nowe he
shulde helpe hem;
11 whiche sothely dredden
for to be priued of lawe, and cuntree,
and of the holy temple; and that he
suffride not the peple, that a whijl goon,
hadde a litil quycknyd a&yogh;ein, for to
be suget eftsoonys to blasfeme naciouns.
12 And so alle men doynge togidere that
thing, and axinge mercy of the Lord
with weepyng, in fastyngis by alle three
days cast doun, Judas monestide hem
for to make hem redy.
13 Forsothe he
with eldre men thou&yogh;te, bifore that the
kyng mouede oost to Judee, and gate the
citee, for to go out, and bitake to dom
of the Lord the out goynge, or eende, of
the thyng.
14 And so &yogh;euynge power of
alle thingis to God, maker of nou&yogh;t of
the world, and monestynge hise for to
fi&yogh;te strongly, and `vn to deth, for lawes,
temple, citee, cuntree, and citeseyns for
to stonde, ordeynyde the oost aboute Modyn.
15 And tokyn &yogh;ouen to his of victorie
of God, the strongist &yogh;unge men chosen,
bi ny&yogh;t assaylinge the kyngis halle in
tentis, he slew&yogh; fourtene thousand men,
-- --
and the most of olyfauntis, with these
that weren putt aboue.
16 And with hee&yogh;ist
dreed and distourblyng thei fulfillynge
the tentis of enmyes, and thingus eisily,
or welsumly, don, wenten awey.
17 Forsothe
this is don the day li&yogh;tynge, the
proteccioun of the Lord helpynge hym.
18 Bot the kyng, taken tast of hardynesse
by craft of Jewis, temptide hardynessis
of placis;
19 and he mouede the tentis to
Bethsura, that was a stronge hold of
Jewis; bot he was dryuen hurtlid and
menushid.
20 Forsothe to these that weren
withynne, Judas sente needful thingus.
21 Forsothe Rodochus, summan of the
oost of Jewis, telde out to enmyes priuytees;
whiche sou&yogh;t is taken, and shitt
to gidre.
22 Eftsone the kyng hadde word
to hem that weren in Bethsura, &yogh;aue the
ri&yogh;t hond, resceyuede, wente awey.
23 Ioynyde
with Judas is ouercummen. Forsothe
as he knew&yogh; Philipp for to haue
rebellid at Antiochie, whiche was left on
needis, he astonyed in mynde, bisow&yogh;te
Jewis, and suget to hem, swerith of alle
thingis, of whiche it is seen iust; and
recounseilinge offride sacrefice, wirshipide
the temple, and puttide &yogh;iftis.
24 He
byclippide Machabeus, and made hym
duyk and prince fro Tholomaida vnto
Gerreyns.
25 Sothely as he came to Tholomaida,
men of Tholomaida baren greuously
the accordyng of frendship, hauynge
indignacioun, lest perauenture thei
braken pees.
26 Than Lisias styede vp the
dom place, and expounyde resoun, and
ceeside the peple, and turnyde a&yogh;ein to
Antioche; and this maner the kyngis
goynge out and turnynge a&yogh;ein wente
forth.
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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