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Saint Jerome said he was ashamed to see the Christians thus unworthily and untruly charge the Hebrew verity with corruption:¹ And so may we also truly say, that it is a shame for these men to slander the Hebrew text, and to accuse the Jews of that fault, whereof they are not guilty, for ought that can be proved in this behalf against them.² And S. Augustine entreating at large of a place, read otherwise in the Greek and Latin translations, ⟨p. 247⟩then in the Hebrew text, not only dischargeth the Jews from all suspicion of corrupting their books, but giveth this rule, that whensoever there is found any variety or difference in the texts, we should give greatest credit to that tongue, out of which the interpreters have made their translation. Upon which place Lewes Vives writeth thus,³ This same doth Jerome avouch, and this reason it self teacheth: there is none of sound judgement that thinketh otherwise. But in vain doth the consent of good wits thus think. For stout senselessness, as it were an hill, is opposed against it: not because these men are ignorant of those tongues, (for Augustine knew not the Hebrew & the Greek, but meanly) but there is not in these men that modesty of mind, that was in Augustine. He was ready to be taught of all: they will never learn but always teach that they know not. Thus hath Vives written of you Master R. and such absurd and senseless fellows as you, that against reason and truth will defend your translations, although differing never so much from the original tongues, because you are too stout, and want modesty.

Saint Ierome saide he was ashamed to see the Christians thus vnworthily and vntrulie charge the Hebrew veritie with corruption:¹ And so may we also trulie saie, that it is a shame for these men to slaunder the Hebrew texte, and to accuse the Iewes of that fault, whereof they are not guiltie, for ought that can be prooued in this behalfe against them.²