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].
To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
CAP. II.
1 Forsothe ther weren and false prophetes
of the puple, as and in &yogh;ou
shulen be maystirs li&yogh;ers, that shulen
bringe in sectes of perdicioun; and thei
denyen `the ilke Lord that bou&yogh;te hem,
`aboue ledynge to hem silf hasty perdicioun,
`or dampnacioun.
2 And many
shulen sue her leccheries, bi whiche the
weye of treuthe shal be blasfemyd;
3 and
thei shulen marchaundise of &yogh;ou in
coueitise bi feynyd wordis. To whom `now
doom `sum tyme ceesith not, and the perdicioun
of hem nappith not.
4 Forsothe
if God sparide not to aungels, but bitoke
hem `to be turmentid, drawen with
boondis of helle in to helle, for to be
kept in to doom;
5 and sparide not to the
first world, but kepte Noe, the ei&yogh;tthe,
bifore goer of ri&yogh;twisnesse, bringynge in
the `diluuye, or greet flood, to the world
of vnpitouse men;
6 and he driuynge in to
poudre the citees of men of Sodom and of
men of Gomor, dampnide bi turnynge
upsedoun, puttinge ensaumple of hem
that weren to doynge yuel, `or vnpitously;
and deliueride iust Loth,
7 oppressid fro
the wrong `of curside men, and leccherous
conuersacioun;
8 sotheli in si&yogh;t and heringe
he was iust, dwellinge anentis hem that
fro day in to day turmentiden with wickide
werkis a iust soule.
9 The Lord knew
for to delyuere pitouse men of temptacioun,
sotheli for to kepe wickide men
-- --
in to the day of dome for to be turmentid;
forsothe more hem that walken aftir flesch,
10
in coueitinge of vnclennesse, and despijsen
lordscheping, bolde, dreden not to bringe
in sectes `plesinge to hem, blasfemynge;
wher aungels,
11 whan thei ben more in
strengthe and vertu beren not a&yogh;ens hem
the execrable, `or cursid, doom.
12 `Thes
sotheli as vnresounable beestes, kyndeli in
to capcioun, `or takinge, and in to deeth,
blasfemynge in thes thingis that thei
knowen not, shulen perische in her corupcioun,
receyuynge the hijre of vnri&yogh;twisnesse,
13
gessynge `the voluptees of the
day delijces of defoulinge and of wemme,
`with delijcis flowinge, in her feestis
doynge leccherie with &yogh;ou,
14 hauynge i&yogh;en
ful of auoutrie, and vncesynge trespasse,
deceyuynge vnstedefast soules, hauynge the
herte excercisid in coueitise, the sones of
cursynge,
15 forsakinge the ri&yogh;t weie, erreden,
suynge the weie of Balaam of Bosor, the
which louede hijre of wickidnesse.
16 Sotheli
he hadde correpcioun, `or reprouyng,
of his woodnesse; a doumbe beest vndir
&yogh;ok, spekinge with voys of man, forbede
the vnwisdom of the prophet.
17 Thes ben
welles with oute watir, and cloudis, `or
mijstis, driuun with `whirlinge wijndis,
to whom the thicke mijst of derknessis is
reserued.
18 Sotheli thei spekinge in pride of
vanyte, deceyuen in desijris of flesch of
leccherie hem, that `a litel scapen. The
whiche lyuynge in errour,
19 bihotinge
liberte, `or fredom, to hem, whan thei
ben seruauntes of corupcioun. Sotheli of
whom ony man is ouercome, `of him and
-- --
`he is seruaunt.
20 Forsothe if men forsakinge
the defoulinges, `or vnclennesses,
of the world, in the knowinge of oure
`Lord and sauyour Jhesu Crist, eftsoone
inwlappid in thes, ben ouercome, the
latter thingis ben maad to hem worse
than the former.
21 Sotheli it was betere
`to hem for to not knowe the weie of
ri&yogh;twisnesse, than for to turne a&yogh;en
aftir the knowinge, fro that holy maundement
that was bitakun to hem.
22 Sotheli
`the ilke thing of verrey prouerbe bifel to
hem, An hound turned a&yogh;en to his
woom, `or castyng vp, and a sowe
waschun in the walewinge, `or slowe,
of cley, `or fen.
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].
|
