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The words are these, [Greek or Hebrew], in latin, word for word, quem oportet quidem coelum recipere: the words both in Greek, and latin are ambiguous, as any man may see: in which respect Beza thought better to translate them thus, quem oporter quidem coe locapi, which, in effect and true meaning, ⟨p. 173⟩is all one with the other, but yet some thing plainer. This worthy matter you handle by several points, as becometh a man of such discretion.

The wordes are these, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in latine, worde for worde, quem oportet quidem coelum recipere: the wordes both in Greeke, and latine are ambiguous, as any man may see: in which respecte Beza thought better to translate them thus, quem oporter quidem coe locapi, which, in effect and true meaning, ⟨p. 173⟩is al one with the other, but yet some thing plainer. This worthie matter you handle by seuerall pointes, as becommeth a man of such discretion.

First, you say, it is saucy and malapert for any man, of purpose to restrain that, ¹which the holy ghost hath left at large. If this be so, then hath your vulgar interpreter been over saucy and malapert often times. Examples of such sauciness I might allege many in his translation, if cause required. I grant a man cannot be too precise, and religious in translating the words of holy scripture: and that it ought to be the especial care of a godly translator, neither to restrain, nor enlarge any thing, as far forth as he may perform by skill and diligence: for so much as the text may afford a doctrine, sometime in his original and natural words, which by altering in the translation is soon marred. But these admit no other sense, then one; & therefore no matter whether a man say, that heaven must receive Christ, or Christ must be received in heaven; the meaning is all one. For as for the conceit of some, which you affirm may perhaps be true, that Christ should receive heaven, it passeth all