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. XI.
1 And a `mesure lijk to a &yogh;erd is &yogh;ouun
to me, and it is seid to me, Rise thou,
and mete the temple of God, and the
auter, and men worschipinge in it.
2 Forsothe
caste out the porche, that is with
out forth the temple, and mete it not; for
it is &yogh;ouun to hethen men, and thei shulen
defoule the holy citee bi fourty monethis
and two.
3 And I shal &yogh;iue to my two
witnesses, and thei shulen prophecie a
thousynd dayes two hundrid and sixty,
thei clothid with sackis.
4 Thes ben two
olyues, and two candelstickes, &yogh;euynge
li&yogh;t, thei stondinge in the si&yogh;t of the
Lord of erthe.
5 And if ony man `shal
wolen for to anoi&yogh;e hem, fijr shal go
out of the mouth of hem, and shal deuoure
her enemyes. And if ony `shal
wolen for to hirte hem, thus it bihoueth
him for to be slayn.
6 Thes han power `of
shittinge heuen, that it rayne not in the
dayes of her prophecie; and thei han
power on watirs, `of turnynge hem in to
blood; and for to smyte the erthe with `al
plage, and hou ofte euer thei `shulen
-- --
wole.
7 And whan thei shulen ende her
witnessing, the beest that sti&yogh;eth up of
the depnesse, shal make bateyl a&yogh;ens
hem, and shal ouercome hem, and shal
slee hem.
8 And the bodies of hem shulen
ligge in the streetis of the grete citee,
that is clepid goostly Sodom, and Egipt,
where the Lord of hem was crucified.
9 And `thei shulen see of lynagis, and of
puplis, and tungis, and hethen men, the
bodies of hem bi thre dayes and an half;
and `the bodies of hem shulen not be suffrid
for to be put in biriels.
10 And men
enhabitinge the erthe shulen haue ioye
vpon hem; and thei shulen make myry,
and sende &yogh;iftes to gydere, for thes two
prophetes tourmentiden hem that dwellen
on erthe.
11 And aftir thre dayes and an
half, the spirit of `lijf of God entride in
to hem; and thei stoden on her feet, and
greet drede fel on hem that si&yogh;en hem.
12 And thei herden a greet voys fro heuen,
seiynge to hem, Sti&yogh;e up hidir. And thei
sti&yogh;eden in to heuen in a cloude, and the
enemyes of hem si&yogh;en hem.
13 And in that
hour a greet erthe mouyng is maad, and
the tenthe paart of the citee fel; and `ther
ben slayn in the erthe mouyng the
`names of men seuen thousynd; and `the
tother ben sent in drede, and &yogh;auen
glory to God of heuen.
14 The secounde
woo wente, and lo! the thridde woo shal
come soone.
15 And the seuenthe aungel
song in trumpe, and greete voices ben
maad in heuen, seiynge, The reume of
this world is maad `oure Lordis, and of
Cristis, his sone; and thei shulen regne
in to worldlis of worldlis.
16 Amen. And
the foure and twenty senyoures, `or elder
-- --
men, that sitten in her seetes in the si&yogh;t
of the Lord, fellen `in to her facis, and
worschipiden God,
17 seiynge, We don
thankinges to thee, Lord God almi&yogh;ty,
which art, and which was, and which
art to comynge; which hast takun thi
greet vertu, and hast regnyd.
18 And folkes
ben wrothe, and thi wrath cam, and tyme
of deede men for to be demyd, and for to
&yogh;elde hijre to thi seruauntis, and prophetis,
and halewis, and dredinge thi name,
to smale and litle, and `of destriynge
hem that corrumpeden the erthe.
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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