Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XIIII.
Holofernes head is hanged on the wall. 6. Achior is circumcised, 7. The Israelites
assault the Assyrians, 8. who going to awake their General, 14.
sinde him slaine, 17, and are al confounded with feare.
1 And Iudith said to al the people: Heare me brethren,
hang ye this head vpon our walles:
2 and it shal be,
when the sunne shal rise, let euerie man take his armour,
and yssue ye forth with violence, not that you goe downe
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beneath, but as it were inuading violently.
3 Then the watchmen
must of necessitie runne to rayse vp their prince to battel.
4 And when the captaynes of them shal runne to the tabernacle
of Holofernes, and shal finde him headles rowled in
bloud, feare wil fal vpon them.
5 And when you shal know
that they flee, goe after them securely, because our Lord wil
destroy them vnder your feete.
6 Then note Achior seeing the
power, that God of Israel wrought, forsaking the rite of gentilitie,
beleued God, and circuncided the flesh of his prepuce,
and was ioyned to the people of Israel, and al the succession
of his kinred vntil this present day.
7 And immediatly
as day brake, they hong the head of Holofernes vpon the
walles, and euerie man tooke his armour, and they went
forth with great noyse and shouting.
8 Which the watchmen
seing, ranne to the tabernacle of Holofernes.
9 Moreouer
they that were in the tabernacle, coming, and before
the dore of the tabernacle making a noyse, to rayse him, they
endeuored by art to disquiet him, that Holofernes might
awake not by them raysing him, but by them making a noyse.
10 For no man durft by knocking, or entring, to open the
chamber of the chiefe of the Assyrians.
11 But when his dukes
and tribunes were come, and al the chiefe of the armie of the
king of the Assyrians, they said to the chamberlayns:
12 Goe
in, and awake him, because the mice yssuing out of their
holes, haue presumed to prouoke vs to battel.
13 Then Vagao
entring into his chamber, stoode before the cortine, and
made a clapping with his handes: for he thought that he slept
with Iudith.
14 But when with the sense of his eares he percieued
no motion of person lying, he came neere to the
cortine, and lifting it vp, and seing the bodie without the
head of Holofernes weltred in his bloud lye vpon the ground,
cried out in a lowd voyce with weeping, and rent his garmentes.
15 And going into the tabernacle of Iudith, he found
her not, and he lept forth to the people,
16 and sayd: One Hebrewe
woman hath made confusion in the house of king
Nabuchodonosor: for behold Holofernes lyeth vpon the
ground, and his head is not vpon him.
17 Which when the
princes of the power of the Assyrians had heard, they al rent
their garmentes, and intollerable feare and dread fel vpon
them, and their mindes were trubled excedingly.
18 And
there was made an incomparable crie in the middes of their
campe.
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Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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