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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[Prologue on the book of Judges.]
This book of Judicum makith mencioun, how the sones of Israel braken the boond
of the Lord, and serueden aliene goddis, after the deeth of Josue, and of elder men
that lyueden long tyme after the deeth of Josue, whiche hadden seyn the merueilis
and grete dedis of the Lord, and othere men risen aftirward, whiche herden the
comaundementis and domes of the Lord and diden alle thingis contrarie. Wherfore
the Lord bitook hem in to the hondis of her enemyes, and weren maad tributaries to
hem, and serueden hem; and whanne thei weren turmentid and angwischid greetli,
thei crieden to the Lord; and he herde hem, and sente iugis, that is, domesmen, whiche
delyuereden hem for a tyme, til thei eftsone hadden for&yogh;ete the Lord. And therfore
the Lord lefte enemyes to hem, whiche thei my&yogh;ten not distrie, to punsche hem,
whanne thei wenten awei fro the Lord, and fro hise comaundementis.
Here bigynneth the bok of Judicum.
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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