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. XV.
1 Forsothe as Nychanore foonde Judas
for to be in places of Samarye, he thou&yogh;te
in the day of saboth with al feersnesse
for to ioyne bateil.
2 Forsothe Jewis, that
sueden hym by need, sayinge, Do thou
not so feersly and heithenly, bot &yogh;eue
honour to the day of halewyng, and
wirshipe thou hym, that biholdith alle
thingus.
3 And he vnblessid, axide, &YOGH;if
there is a mi&yogh;ti in heuen, that comaundide
the `day of sabothis for to be don?
4 And hem answerynge, There is oo Lord,
and he in heuen mi&yogh;ti, that comaundide
the seuenthe day for to be don.
5 And he
saith, And Y am mi&yogh;ti vpon erthe, whiche
comaunde armers for to be taken, and
needis of the kyng for to be fulfillid.
Nethelese he gate not, for to perfourme
counseil.
6 And sothely Nychanore with
souereyn pride enhaunsid, thou&yogh;te for to
ordeyne a comoun victorie of Judas.
7 Forsothe
Machabeus tristide euermore with
al hope, help to cummynge to hym of the
Lord,
8 and monestide hise, that thei shulden
not inwardly dreede at the cummynge to
of naciouns, bot shulden haue in mynde the
helpis don to hem of heuen, and nowe
shulden hoope of Almi&yogh;ty the victorie to
cummyng to hem.
9 And spekynge to hem
of lawe, and prophetis, and monestinge
what thingis thei diden bifore, he ordeynyde
hem redier.
10 And so the ynwittis
of hem reysid, he shewide to gidere the
falsnesse of heithen men, and brekyng of
oothis.
11 Forsothe he armyde eche of hem,
not bi strengthing of sheld and shaft,
bot with best wordis and monestyngis, a
sweuen worthi of byleeue expowned, by
whiche he gladide alle.
12 Sothely the visioun
is siche. Onye, that was hee&yogh;ist
prest, a good man and benygne, shamfast
in si&yogh;t, and mylde in maners, and fair in
-- --
speche, and whiche was excersisid, or
hauntid, in vertues fro a chijld, holdynge
forth the hondis for to preye for al the
peple of the Jewis.
13 After this thing
and an other man for to haue apeerid,
in age and glorie wondreful, and in hauynge
of grete fairnesse aboute hym.
14 Forsothe
Onye answerynge to haue saide,
This is the louer of bretheren, and of
peple of Yrael; this is he, that myche
preyeth for the peple, and for al the holy
cite, Jeremye, the prophete of God.
15 Forsothe
Jeremye for to haue strei&yogh;te forth
the ri&yogh;thond, and to haue &yogh;ouen a golden
swerd to Judas,
16 sayinge, Take thou the
holy swerd, a &yogh;ift of God, in whiche
thou shalt cast doun the aduersaries of
my peple Yrael.
17 And so thei monestid
with wordis of Judas ful goode, of
whiche feersnesse mi&yogh;te be enhaunsid,
and the ynnewittis of &yogh;unge men be
confortyd, thei ordeynyden for to fi&yogh;te,
and tourmente to gidre strongly, that
vertu shulde deme of needis, for that the
holy citee and temple weren in perel.
18 Sothely for wijues, and sonys, and also
for bretheren, and cosyns, was lesse bysynesse,
bot most and first dread was for
holynesse of the temple.
19 Bot not leste
bysynesse hadde hem that weren in the
citee, for these that weren to assailynge
to gidre.
20 And whanne now alle men
hopiden dom to beynge, and enmys
camen, and oost was ordeynyd, beestis
and horsmen putt to gidre in couenable
place,
21 Machabeus biholdynge the cummyng
of multitude, and dyuers apparel
of armers, and feersnesse of beestis,
strecchynge out the hondis in to heuen,
ynclepide the Lord doynge grete wondris,
whiche not after power of armers,
bot as it plesith to hym, &yogh;eueth to worthi
men victorie.
22 Forsothe he saide, ynclepinge
this manere, Thou, Lord, that sentist
thin aungel vnder Ezechie, kyng of
-- --
Juda, and hast slayn of tentis, or oostis,
of Senacherib, an hundrid foure score
and fyue thousand;
23 and now, lordshiper
of heuens, sende thou thi good aungel
bifore vs, in dreed and tremblyng of
gretenesse of thin arm,
24 that thei dreede,
that cummen a&yogh;einus thin holy peple.
And bi these thingis thus he perfitly
preyede.
25 Forsothe Nychanore, and thei
that weren with hym, with trumpis and
songis moueden to.
26 Judas forsothe, and
thei that weren with him, God ynclepid
by preyers of knowlachyng, wenten to
gidre.
27 Sothely in hond fi&yogh;tynge, bot in
hertis preyinge God, castiden doun fyue
and thritty thousand, not lesse, by the
presence of God gretely delytynge.
28 And
whanne thei hadden ceesid, and with
ioye turnyden a&yogh;ein, thei knewen Nychanore
for to haue fallen, with his armers.
29 And so crie maad, and perturbacioun
stirid, by cuntree voice thei blessiden the
Lord almi&yogh;ty.
30 Forsothe Judas comaundide,
that by alle thingis in body and
ynwitt was redy for to dye for citeseyns,
the hed of Nychanore, and the hond with
the shuldre gird off, for to be brou&yogh;t
forth to Jerusalem.
31 Whidir whanne he
fully came, men of his lynage clepid to
gidre, and prestis to the auter, he clepide
and hem that weren in the hee&yogh; rock.
32 And the hed of Nychanore shewid, and
the cursid hond, whiche he holdynge
forth a&yogh;einus the holy hous of almi&yogh;ty
God gretely gloriede,
33 also he comaundide
the tunge of vnpitous Nychanore kitt
off, for to be &yogh;ouen to briddis gobetmele;
forsothe the hond of the wood man for
to be hongid vp a&yogh;einus the temple.
34 Therfore
alle blessiden the Lord of heuen,
sayinge, Blessid the Lord, that kepte his
place vndefoulid.
35 Forsothe he hangide
vp Nychanoris hed in the hee&yogh;ist rock,
that it were euydent, or knowen, and
opyn signe of helpe of God.
36 Therfore
-- --
alle men by commoun counseile demyden
in no maner this day for to passe withoute
worschiping,
37 sothli for to haue
worschipyng the thrittenthe day of the
moneth Adar, that is said, by voice of
Sirye, the first day of Mardochyus.
38 Therfore
these thingis don a&yogh;einus Nychanore,
and of the tymes the citee weeldid of
Ebrues, and Y in these thingis shal make
an eend of word.
39 And sotheli &yogh;if wel and
as it acordith to the storye, this thing
and Y wole; &yogh;if ellis lesse worthily, it is
to be grauntid to me.
40 Sothely as for to
drinke euermore wyne, or euermore water,
is contrarie, forsothe for to vse chaungable,
or now oon, now another, is delitable;
so to men redynge, &yogh;if the word be
euermore vniustly axid, or a&yogh;ein sou&yogh;t, it
shal not be couenable, or plesinge; therfore
here it shal be eendid.
Here endith the storie of Machabeus,
the whiche is the laste book of the Olde
Testament. And nowe bigynneth the
Newe Testament; first is the prolog of
Matheu, apostle and euangelist.
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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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