A15061:330
An answer to a certain book, writtenAn answere to a certeine booke, written
An answer to a certain book, written by Master William Rainolds student of divinity in the English college at Rhemes, and entitled, A refutation of sundry reprehensions, cavils, etc. by William Whitaker ...An answere to a certeine booke, written by Maister William Rainolds student of diuinitie in the English colledge at Rhemes, and entituled, A refutation of sundrie reprehensions, cauils, etc. by William Whitaker ...
Printed at London : For Thomas Chard, 1585
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
An other such place you object out of the Prophet Jeremiah, 1Chap. 23. v. 6. wherein that some corruption hath been committed either in letter or point, may be imagined, but cannot by evident demonstration be proved.2 What moved S. Jerome to translate thus, vocabunt eum, They shall call him, I will not dispute. The reason might be in the variety, and incertainty of points, or in the ambiguous acception of the word. But because M. Rainolds chargeth the Jews with so foul a corruption of this place, only to discredit the divinity of our Saviour Christ, he must remember, that the Seventy interpreters translated it in the singular number, according to the Hebrew now extant,3 as S. Jerome also maketh mention, yet were they never challenged for partial interpretation of the scriptures, being (as many write) wonderfully assisted & governed in that work, and not smallie had of ancient time in regard. And this was long before our saviour ⟨p. 257⟩Christ was come in the flesh, and therefore undoubtedly the place was not corrupted by the Jews for such a cause as you imagine, unless you will say the Jews in hatred of Christ corrupted the Bible diverse hundred years before Christ was borne, and before they had cause to conceive any malice or displeasure against our saviour Christ. And so your Lyra's surmise is plainly disproved, in which you rest your self, as in a certain verity, and upon his word are bold to pronounce sentence against the poor Jews for committing a crime, which by clear evidence of greater authority they are not guilty of. Neither maketh it less for Christs divinity, to read it, vocabit, He shall call him, that is, God the father, or, every faithful man shall call him, The Lord our righteousness: then if we read, vocabunt, They shall call him the Lord our righteousness. And Saint Hierome (as you might have seen, had you looked on the place your self) translateth the text after this manner, Et hoc est nomen, quo vocabunt eum (sine vocabit eum) Dominus justus noster, wherein he showeth plainly there is no substance of matter more in the one, then the other. If this be so shameful ⟨p. 258⟩