First you say no wit nor learning will allow me to translate [Greek or Hebrew] an Image, or [Greek or Hebrew] a carcass. And what came in your head to charge me with translating psuche a carcass? where have I so translated it? or where is it so found in any of our translations? For my part I never so translated it, I never saw it so translated, I never thought it lawful so to translate it. Beza I grant translated it so in his latin translation once, but afterwards upon better consideration, he changed his translation, as you may see in the latter editions. As for eidolon, it is truly & properly translated an Image, as any man will confess, that knoweth the nature of the word, & as it hath been largely proved in sundry discourses. It was then far from wit or learning in you Master Rainolds, to say that as well might minister be translated a slave, or homo a dog, as eidolon an Image. For among the words, wherewith the learned Grecians commonly express the same thing that we call an Image, is eidolon, as fit and natural as any other. Your sacred Images are eidola: & if eidolon signify an Idol, then are they Idols, as in trueth they are. By use and custom ⟨p. 221⟩of speech, an Idol and Image somewhat differ, as every man knoweth. All Idols are Images, not all Images Idols. But the Lord hath forbidden all graven Images no less then graven Idols to be made for worship sake Wherefore your Images,1 which you make, which you garnish, which you erect, which you worship in your unholy Synagogues, are Idols. The picture maketh not an Idol, but the worship. The pictures of Jupiter or Mars, were no Idols, according to the received sense of this word, unless they were worshipped: so likewise the Images of Saints, if they be abused to sacred worship, in which respect you call them sacred Images, are no better then profane, wicked, abominable Idols. Then your argument to prove us Idolaters for honouring the Queen in her Image, &c. is childish. This honour to the Prince is civil, not religious or divine, such as the honour is, wherewith you worship your Images of all sorts: so this honour is far from Idolatry, your honour is mere Idolatry, and you are Idolatrous worshippers of Idol Images. That Ecclesia signifieth an assembly, or congregation, who can deny? & so may it rightly be translated:
First you say no wit nor learning will alowe me to translate 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 an Image, or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a carcase. And what came in your head to charge me with translating psuche a carcase? where haue I so translated it? or where is it so found in any of our translations? For my part I neuer so translated it, I neuer saw it so translated, I neuer thought it lawful so to translate it. Beza I graunt trāslated it so in his latine translation once, but afterwards vpon better consideration, he changed his translation, as you may see in the latter editions. As for eidolon, it is truly & properlie translated an Image, as any man will confesse, that knoweth the nature of the word, & as it hath beene largely prooued in sundry discourses. It was then farre from wit or learning in you Master Rainolds, to say that as well might minister be translated a slaue, or homo a dogge, as eidolon an Image. For among the words, wherewith the learned Grecians commonlie expresse the same thing that we cal an Image, is eidolon, as fitt and naturall as any other. Your sacred Images are eidola: & if eidolon signifie an Idole, then are they Idoles, as in trueth they are. By vse and custome ⟨p. 221⟩of speach, an Idole and Image somewhat differ, as euerie man knoweth. All Idoles are Images, not al Images Idoles. But the Lord hath forbidden al grauen Images no lesse then grauen Idols to be made for worship sake Wherefore your Images,1 which you make, which you garnish, which you erecte, which you worship in your vnholie Synagogues, are Idoles. The picture maketh not an Idole, but the worship. The pictures of Iupiter or Mars, were no Idoles, according to the receiued sense of this worde, vnlesse they were worshiped: so likewise the Images of Saints, if they be abused to sacred worship, in which respecte you cal them sacred Images, are no better then profane, wicked, abominable Idoles. Then your argument to prooue vs Idolaters for honoring the Queene in her Image, &c. is childish. This honor to the Prince is ciuil, not religious or diuine, such as the honour is, wherewith you worship your Images of all sortes: so this honour is farre from Idolatrie, your honour is meere Idolatry, and you are Idolatrous worshippers of Idole Images. That Ecclesia signifieth an assembly, or congregation, whoe can deny? & so may it rightlie be translated:
- 1All images made for worship sake are very Idols.All images made for worship sake are verie Idoles.
