Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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Here bigynneth another prologe.
1 Forsothe for manye men enforceden to ordeyne the tellyng of thingis, whiche
ben fillid in vs,
2 as thei that seyn atte the bigynnyng, and weren ministris of the
word,
3 bitaken, it is seen also to me, hauynge alle thingis diligentli bi ordre, to
write to thee,
4 thou best Theofile, that thou knowe the treuthe of tho wordis,
of whiche thou art lerned.
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Here bigynneth the gospel of Luyk.
5 In the daies of Eroude, kyng of Judee,
ther was a prest, Sakarie bi name, of the
sorte of Abia, and his wijf was of the
dou&yogh;tris of Aaron, and hir name was
Elizabeth.
6 And bothe weren iust bifor
God, goynge in alle the maundementis
and iustifiyngis of the Lord, withouten
pleynt.
7 And thei hadden no child, for
Elizabeth was bareyn, and bothe weren
of grete age in her daies.
8 And it bifel,
that whanne Zacarie schulde do the office
of preesthod, in the ordre of his cours
tofor God,
9 aftir the custome of the
preesthod, he wente forth bi lot, and
entride in to the temple, to encense.
10 And al the multitude of the puple was
with outforth, and preiede in the our of
encensyng.
11 And an aungel of the Lord
apperide to hym, and stood on the ri&yogh;thalf
of the auter of encense.
12 And Zacarie
seynge was afraied, and drede fel
vpon hym.
13 And the aungel seide to
hym, Zacarie, drede thou not; for thi
preyer is herd, and Elizabeth, thi wijf,
schal bere to thee a sone, and his name
schal be clepid Joon.
14 And ioye and
gladyng schal be to thee; and many
schulen `haue ioye in his natyuyte.
15 For
he schal be greet bifor the Lord, and he
schal not drynke wyn and sidir, and he
schal be fulfillid with the Hooli Goost
&yogh;it of his modir wombe.
16 And he schal
conuerte many of the children of Israel
to her Lord God;
17 and he schal go bifor
hym in the spirit and the vertu of Helie;
and he schal turne the hertis of the
-- --
fadris in to the sones, and men out of
bileue to the prudence of iust men, to
make redi a perfit puple to the Lord.
18 And Zacarie seide to the aungel, Wherof
schal Y wite this? for Y am eld, and my
wijf hath gon fer in to hir daies.
19 And
the aungel answeride, and seide to hym,
For Y am Gabriel, that stonde ni&yogh; bifor
God; and Y am sent to thee to speke,
and to euangelize to thee these thingis.
20 And lo! thou schalt be doumbe, and
thou schalt not mow speke til in to the
dai, in which these thingis schulen be
don; for thou hast not bileued to my
wordis, whiche schulen be fulfillid in her
tyme.
21 And the puple was abidynge
Zacarie, and thei wondriden, that he tariede
in the temple.
22 And he &yogh;ede out,
and my&yogh;te not speke to hem, and thei
knewen that he hadde seyn a visioun in
the temple. And he bikenyde to hem,
and he dwellide stille doumbe.
23 And it
was don, whanne the daies of his office
weren fulfillid, he wente in to his hous.
24 And aftir these daies Elizabeth, his wijf,
conseyuede, and hidde hir fyue monethis,
and seide,
25 For so the Lord dide to me in
the daies, in whiche he bihelde, to take
awei my repreef among men.
26 But in
the sixte moneth the aungel Gabriel was
sent fro God in to a citee of Galilee,
whos name was Nazareth,
27 to a maidyn,
weddid to a man, whos name was Joseph,
of the hous of Dauid; and the
name of the maidun was Marie.
28 And
the aungel entride to hir, and seide,
Heil, ful of grace; the Lord be with
thee; blessid be thou among wymmen.
29 And whanne sche hadde herd, sche was
troublid in his word, and thou&yogh;te what
-- --
maner salutacioun this was.
30 And the
aungel seide to hir, Ne drede thou
not, Marie, for thou hast foundun grace
anentis God.
31 Lo! thou schalt conceyue
in wombe, and schalt bere a sone, and
thou schalt clepe his name Jhesus.
32 This
schal be greet, and he schal be clepid the
sone of the Hi&yogh;este; and the Lord God
schal &yogh;eue to hym the seete of Dauid, his
fadir, and he schal regne in the hous of
Jacob with outen ende,
33 and of his rewme
schal be noon ende.
34 And Marie seide
to the aungel, On what maner schal this
thing be doon, for Y knowe not man?
35 And the aungel answeride, and seide to
hir, The Hooly Goost schal come fro
aboue in to thee, and the vertu of the
Hi&yogh;este schal ouerschadewe thee; and
therfor that hooli thing that schal be
borun of thee, schal be clepid the sone of
God.
36 And lo! Elizabeth, thi cosyn,
and sche also hath conceyued a sone in
hir eelde, and this moneth is the sixte
to hir that is clepid bareyn;
37 for euery
word schal not be inpossible anentis
God.
38 And Marie seide, Lo! the handmaydyn
of the Lord; be it don to me
aftir thi word. And the aungel departide
fro hir.
39 And Marie roos vp in
tho daies, and wente with haaste in to
the mounteyns, in to a citee of Judee.
40 And sche entride in to the hous of Zacarie,
and grette Elizabeth.
41 And it was
don, as Elizabeth herde the salutacioun
of Marie, the &yogh;ong child in hir wombe
gladide. And Elizabeth was fulfillid
with the Hooli Goost,
42 and criede with
a greet vois, and seide, Blessid be thou
among wymmen, and blessid be the
fruyt of thi wombe.
43 And whereof is
this thing to me, that the modir of my
Lord come to me?
44 For lo! as the voice
-- --
of thi salutacioun was maad in myn
eeris, the &yogh;ong child gladide in ioye in
my wombe.
45 And blessid be thou, that
hast bileued, for thilke thingis that ben
seid of the Lord to thee, schulen be parfitli
don.
46 And Marie seide, Mi soule
magnyfieth the Lord,
47 and my spirit hath
gladid in God, myn helthe.
48 For he hath
biholdun the mekenesse of his handmaidun.
49 For lo! of this alle generaciouns
schulen seie that Y am blessid.
For he that is my&yogh;ti hath don to me
grete thingis, and his name is hooli.
50 And his mercy is fro kynrede in to
kynredes, to men that dreden hym.
51 He
made my&yogh;t in his arme, he scaterede
proude men with the thou&yogh;te of his
herte.
52 He sette doun my&yogh;ti men fro
sete, and enhaunside meke men.
53 He
hath fulfillid hungri men with goodis,
and he hath left riche men voide.
54 He,
hauynge mynde of his mercy, took Israel,
his child;
55 as he hath spokun to oure
fadris, to Abraham and to his seed, in to
worldis.
56 And Marie dwellide with hir,
as it were thre monethis, and turnede
a&yogh;en in to hir hous.
57 But the tyme of
beryng child was fulfillid to Elizabeth,
and sche bare a sone.
58 And the nei&yogh;boris
and cosyns of hir herden, that the Lord
hadde magnyfied his mercy with hir;
and thei thankiden hym.
59 And it was
don in the ei&yogh;te dai, thei camen to circumcide
the child; and thei clepiden hym
Zacarie, bi the name of his fadir.
60 And
his moder answeride, and seide, Nay, but
he schal be clepid Joon.
61 And thei seiden
to hir, For no man is in thi kynrede,
that is clepid this name.
62 And thei
bikeneden to his fadir, what he wolde
that he were clepid.
63 And he axynge
-- --
a poyntil, wroot, seiynge, Joon is his
name.
64 And alle men wondriden. And
anoon his mouth was openyd, and his
tunge, and he spak, and blesside God.
65 And drede was maad on alle her nei&yogh;boris,
and alle these wordis weren pupplischid
on alle the mounteyns of Judee.
66 And alle men that herden puttiden in
her herte, and seiden, What maner child
schal this be? For the hoond of the
Lord was with hym.
67 And Zacarie, his
fadir, was fulfillid with the Hooli Goost,
and prophesiede,
68 and seide, Blessid be
the Lord God of Israel, for he hath
visitid, and maad redempcioun of his
puple.
69 And he hath rerid to vs an
horn of heelthe in the hous of Dauid, his
child.
70 As he spak bi the mouth of
hise hooli prophetis, that weren fro the
world.
71 Helthe fro oure enemyes, and fro
the hoond of alle men that hatiden vs.
72 To do merci with oure fadris, and to
haue mynde of his hooli testament.
73 The
greet ooth that he swoor to Abraham,
oure fadir, to &yogh;yue hym silf to vs.
74 That
we with out drede delyuered fro the
hoond of oure enemyes,
75 serue to hym, in
hoolynesse and ri&yogh;twisnesse bifor hym
in alle oure daies.
76 And thou, child,
schalt be clepid the prophete of the
Hi&yogh;est; for thou schalt go bifor the face
of the Lord, to make redi hise weies.
77 To
&yogh;yue scyence of helthe to his puple, in to
remyssioun of her synnes;
78 bi the inwardnesse
of the merci of oure God, in the
whiche he spryngynge vp fro an hi&yogh;
hath visitid vs.
79 To &yogh;yue li&yogh;t to hem that
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sitten in derknessis and in schadewe of
deeth; to dresse oure feet in to the weie
of pees.
80 And the child wexide, and was
coumfortid in spirit, and was in desert
placis `til to the dai of his schewing to
Israel.
Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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