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. VIII.
1 Forsothe of thes thingis that ben offrid
to ydols, `that ben symulacris maad to
mannis liknesse, we witen, for alle we
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han kunnynge. Sothli science, `or kunnynge,
inblowith `with pride; charite
edifieth.
2 Forsoth if ony man gesse, `or
deme, him for `to wyte ony thing, he
hath not &yogh;it knowyn how it bihoueth
hym for to kunne.
3 Forsoth if ony man
loueth God, this is knowun of him.
4 Forsoth
of metis that ben offrid to ydols, we
witen, for an ydol is no thing in the world,
and that ther is no God but oon.
5 Forwhy
`and if ther ben that ben seide goddis,
ether in heuene, ether in erthe, forsoth
ther ben many goddis, and many
lordis;
6 nethelees to vs is oo God, the fadir,
of whom alle thingis, and we in him;
and oo Lord, Jhesu Crist, by whom alle
thingis, and we by him.
7 But not in alle
men is kunnynge. Sothli summe with
conscience of ydol til now eten as thing
offrid to ydols; and her conscience is vnclene,
whanne it is syk.
8 Mete comendith
vs not to God; `neithir forsothe we
schulen faylen, if we `schulen not ete,
`nethir if we eten, we schulen habounde,
`or haue plente.
9 Se &yogh;e forsoth, lest
perauenture this &yogh;oure leue be maad hirtinge,
`or sclaundre, to syke men, `or
freele.
10 Sothli if ony man schal se him
that hath kunnynge, restinge in a place
wher ydols ben worschipid, wher his conscience,
sith it is syk, schal not be edyfyed
for to ete thingis offrid to ydols?
11 And the syke brothir, for whom Crist
deyede, schal perische in thi kunnynge.
12 Forsoth thus &yogh;e synnynge `in to britheren,
and smytinge hir syke conscience,
synnen in Crist.
13 Wherfor if mete sclaundrith
my brother, I schal not ete fleisch
`in to withouten ende, lest I sclaundre my
brothir.
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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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