CAP. III.
1 But wite thou this thing, that in the
laste daies perelouse tymes schulen nei&yogh;e,
and men schulen be louynge hem silf,
2
coueitouse, hi&yogh; of bering, proude, blasfemeris,
not obedient to fadir and modir,
vnkynde,
3 cursid, with outen affeccioun,
with out pees, false blameris, vncontynent,
vnmylde,
4 with out benygnyte, traitouris,
ouerthwert, bollun with proude
thou&yogh;tis, blynde, loueris of lustis more
than of God,
5 hauynge the licknesse of
pitee, but denyynge the vertu of it.
And eschewe thou these men.
6 Of these
thei ben that persen housis, and leden
wymmen caitifs chargid with synnes,
whiche ben led with dyuerse desiris,
euere more lernynge,
7 and neuere perfitli
comynge to the science of treuthe.
8 And
as Jannes and Mambres a&yogh;enstoden Moises,
so these a&yogh;enstonden treuthe, men
corrupt in vndirstonding, repreuyd aboute
the feith.
9 But ferthere thei schulen not
profite, for the vnwisdom of hem schal
be knowun to alle men, as hern was.
10 But thou hast getun my teching, ordinaunce,
purposing, feith, long abiding,
loue,
11 pacience, persecuciouns, passiouns,
whiche weren maad to me at Antioche,
at Ycony, at Listris, what maner persecucyouns
Y suffride, and the Lord hath
delyuered me of alle.
12 And alle men
-- --
that wolen lyue feithfuli in Crist Jhesu,
schulen suffre persecucioun.
13 But yuele
men and disseyueris schulen encreese in
to worse, errynge, and sendinge in to
errour.
14 But dwelle thou in these thingis
that thou hast lerud, and that ben bitakun
to thee, witinge of whom thou
hast lerud;
15 for thou hast knowun hooli
lettris fro thi &yogh;outhe, whiche moun lerne
thee to heelthe, bi feith that is in Crist
Jhesu.
16 For al scripture inspirid of God
is profitable to teche, to repreue, to
chastice, to lerne in ri&yogh;twisnes, that the
man of God be parfit, lerud to al good
werk.
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].
