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. I.
1 Forsothe, thou Theophile, first I made
a sermoun, `or word, of alle the thingis,
that Jhesus bygan for to do and teche,
2 til
into the day, in which he comaundinge
to apostlis `bi the Hooly Gost, whom
he chees, was takyn vp;
3 to which and
he &yogh;af hym silf alyue, `or quyke, aftir
his passioun, in manye argumentis, `or
prouyngis, by fourty dayes apperinge to
hem, and spekinge of the rewme of God.
4 And he etinge to gidere, comaundide to
hem, that thei schulden not departe fro
Jerusalem, but schulden abyde the biheeste
of the fadir, the which &yogh;e herden,
he seith, by my mouth;
5 for sotheli John
baptiside in watir, but &yogh;e schulen be baptysid
in the Hooly Gost, not aftir these
manye dayes.
6 Therfore thei that camen
to gidere, axiden him, seyinge, Lord, if
-- --
in this tyme schalt thou restore the
kyngdom of Israel?
7 Forsoth he seide to
hem, It is not &yogh;oure for to haue knowe
tymes or momentis, the whiche the fadir
hath put in his power;
8 but &yogh;e schulen
take the vertu of the Hooli Gost comynge
fro a boue into &yogh;ou, and &yogh;e schulen be
witnessis to me in Jerusalem, and in al
Judee, and Samarye, and `til to the vtmeste
of erthe.
9 And whanne he hadde
seid thes thingis, `hem seynge, he was
lift vp, and a cloud receyuede hym fro
the y&yogh;en of hem.
10 And whanne thei bihelden
into heuene `him goynge, lo!
twey men stoodyn ny&yogh; bisydis hem in
white clothis,
11 the whiche and seiden,
Men of Galilee, what stonde &yogh;e biholdinge
into heuene? This Jhesus, that is
takyn vp fro &yogh;ou into heuene, `so schal
come, as &yogh;e sy&yogh;en him goynge into heuene.
12 Thanne thei turneden a&yogh;en to Jerusalem,
fro the hil that is clepid Olyuete,
`the which is bisydis Jerusalem,
hauynge the iurney of a saboth.
13 And
whanne thei hadden entride into the
`soupyng place, thei wenten vp in to
`the hi&yogh;ere thingis, where thei dwelten,
Petre and John, James and Andrew, Philip
and Thomas, Bartelmew and Mathew,
James of Alfey, and Symound Zelotes, and
Judas of James.
14 Alle thes weren dwellinge,
`or lastinge, `to gidere in preier,
with wymmen, and Marie, the modir of
Jhesu, and with his bretheren.
15 In tho
dayes Petre rysynge vp in the myddel
of bretheren, seide; forsoth ther was a
cumpeny of men to gidere, almest an hundrid
and twenty;
16 Men bretheren, it bihoueth
the scripture for to be fulfillid,
which the Hooly Gost bifore seyde by the
mouth of Dauith, of Judas that was leder
-- --
of hem that tooken Jhesu;
17 the which was
noumbrid in vs, and gat the sort of
this mynysterie.
18 And forsoth this weeldide
a feeld of the hyre of wickidnesse,
and he hangid, to-barst the myddel, and
alle his entrailis ben sched a brood.
19 And
it is maad knowun to alle men dwellinge
in Jerusalem, so that thilke feeld was
clepid Achildemak in the langage of hem,
that is, the feeld of blood.
20 Forsoth it
is writun in the book of Salmes, The
habitacioun of him be maad desert, and
be there not that dwellith in it, and another
take the bisshopryche of him.
21 Therfore
it bihoueth of these men, that ben
gederid to gidere with vs in al tyme, in
which the Lord Jhesu entride yn, and
wente out among vs,
22 bigynnynge fro
baptym of John `til into the day in
which he was takyn vp fro vs, oon of
these for to be maad a witnesse of his
resurexcioun with vs.
23 And thei ordeyneden
tweyne, Joseph, that is clepid
Barsabas, that is namyd Justus, and
Mathi.
24 And thei preiynge seiden, Thou,
Lord, that `hast knowe the hertis of
men, schewe whom thou hast chosun of
thes tweyne,
25 oon for to take the place
of this mynisterie and apostilhed, of the
which Judas trespasside, that he schulde
go into his place.
26 And thei &yogh;auen lottis
to hem, and the lot felde to Mathi; and
he was noumbrid `to gidere with enleuene
apostlis.
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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