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. IX.
1 In the same tyme Antiochus turnyde
a&yogh;ein vnonestly fro Perse.
2 Sothely he
hadde entrid in to that citee, that is said
Persibolis, and he temptide for to robbe
the templis, and oppresse the citee; bot,
the multitude rennynge togidre to armers,
he is turned in to fli&yogh;t; and so it bifelle,
that Antiochus after the fli&yogh;t loodly
turnyde a&yogh;ein.
3 And whan he came aboute
Ebathana, he knewe what thingus ben
don a&yogh;einus Nychanore and Tymothe.
4 Forsothe he wroth demede in wrath,
hym for to mow turne in to Jewis the
wronge of hem, that dryuen him. And
therefore he bad the chaar for to be
led, with out ceesyng doynge iourney;
heuenly dom dryuynge, for that he spac
so proudly, hym to cummyng to Jerusalem,
and to makynge it `the gadrynge
of sepulcre of Jewis.
5 Bot the Lord
God of Yrael, that byholdith alle thingus,
smote hym with a wound incurable and
inuisible; forsothe as he eendid this same
word, an hard sorewe of entraylis toke
hym, and bittir tourmentis of ynward
thingis.
6 And sothely iustly ynow&yogh;, forsothe
he that hadde tourmentid the entrailis
of other men, with many and newe
tourmentis, thou&yogh; he in no manere ceesside
of his malice.
7 Forsothe ouer this he fulfillid
with pride, brethinge fijr in ynwitt
in to Jewis, and he comaundynge the
neede for to be haastid, it byfelle, hym
goynge in fersnesse for to falle of the
chaar, and the membris for to be traueilid
with the greuous hurtlyng to gidre
of body.
8 And he that was seen to hym
seelf for to comaunde also to the wawis
of the see, ouer mans maner fulfillid with
pride, and for to weye in balauncis the
hei&yogh;tis of hillis, nowe meekid to erthe,
was born in a beere, witnessynge in hym
self the opyn vertu of God;
9 so that
-- --
wormes buyliden out of the body of the
vnpyteuous man, and the quyck fleshis
of hym with sorewis fleetiden out. Also
with sauour of hym, and stynkyng, the
oost was greeued;
10 and he that a lytil
byfore demyde hym to touche the sterris
of heuen, no man mi&yogh;te beere hym,
for vnsuffryng of stynke.
11 Therfore here
of he ledde doun of greuouse pride, bygan
for to cum to knowynge of hym self,
warnyd by Goddis plage, or vengeaunce,
by alle momentis his sorewis takynge
encresis.
12 And whan he mi&yogh;te not nowe
suffre his stynke, thus he saith, It is iust
for to be suget to God, and a deadly not
for to feele euen thingus to God.
13 Forsothe
the cursid man preyede the Lord
these thingis, of whom he was not to
getynge mercy.
14 And the citee, to whom
he hastynge came, for to leede it doun
to erthe, and for to make a sepulcre of
thingus born togidre, nowe he desijreth
for to &yogh;eelde free.
15 And the Jewis, whom
he said hym self to hauynge nether sothely
worthi of sepulture, bot to betakeinge
to foulis and wijld beestis, for to be
to-drawen, and to distruyng with litil
children, now he bihetith to makyng
euen to Atynyens, or men of Atenys;
16 also to ournynge with best &yogh;iftis the
holy temple, whom he robbide bifore,
and to multipliynge holy vessels, and to
&yogh;eeuynge of his rentis costis perteynynge
to sacrifices;
17 ouer these thingis
and hym to beynge a Jewe, and to walkyng
by eche place of the lond, and to
prechynge the power of God.
18 Bot sorewis
not ceesynge, forsothe the iust
dome of God had aboue come in to hym,
he dispeyrynge wrote to Jewis, in to
maner of biseechynge, epistlis, conteynynge
these thingis.
19 To the best citeseyns,
Jewis, most helthe, and wele for to fare,
and to be ryche, or in prosperite, the
-- --
kyng and prince Antiochus.
20 &YOGH;if &yogh;e faren
wele, and &yogh;oure sonys, of sentence alle
thingus ben to &yogh;ou, we don most thankyngus.
21 And Y in sekenesse ordeyned,
sothely myndeful of &yogh;ou benygnly, turnynge
a&yogh;ein fro places of Persis, and cau&yogh;te
with greuouse enfirmytee, led needful for
to haue cure for comyn profit;
22 not dispeirynge
my self, bot hauynge myche
hope of scapyng the enfirmyte.
23 Forsothe
Y biholdynge that and my fadir,
in what tymes he ledde oost in hee&yogh;er
placis, shewide, who after hym shulde
resceyue princehod;
24 that &yogh;if eny contrarie
thing bifelle, or hard thing were
told, theese that weren in cuntrees, witynge
to whom the summe, or charge, of
alle thingus was left, shulden not be trublid.
25 To these thingus Y biholdynge of
next, alle mi&yogh;ty men and nei&yogh;boris aspyinge
tymes, and abijdynge cummynge,
haue ordeyned my sone Antiochus kyng,
whom Y, rennynge a&yogh;ein oft in to hee&yogh;er
rewmys, commendide, or toke in to
keepyng, to many of &yogh;ou, and Y wrote to
hym what thingus ben suget.
26 And so Y
preye &yogh;ou, and axe, myndeful of benefices
openly for to vse and priuyli, that eche
of &yogh;ou kepe feith to me, and to my sone.
27 Forsothe Y trist, hym to do myldly,
and manly, or curteysly, and suynge my
purpose for to be comoun to &yogh;ou.
28 Therfore
the man queller and blasfeme smyten
warst, and as he had tretide other, in pilgrimage
in mounteyns, in wretchidful
deth is sett fro lijf.
29 Forsothe Philip,
his euen souker, transferride the body;
whiche, dreedynge the sone of Antiochus,
wente to Tholome Philometore, in to
Egypt.
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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