Sin theoni en christoni the answer to the preface of the Rhemish Testament. By…Syn theōi en christōi the ansvvere to the preface of the Rhemish Testament. By…

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Doubt not (good reader) but the Jesuits are like to burst for anger, to understand that we are so well prepared, to prove both that the princely garments are not worn upon the Greek originals, for the space of above 1500. years, wherein they have passed from hand to hand in the horrible desert of this wicked world: and that both the bread and apparel of the old translator, setting out some hundred years after it, if ever it were clad and victualled, in any ⟨p. 184⟩passable measure of a translation: yet that now it is so patched and so pieced, so hoary and so mouldy, that any man (that asketh counsel of the Lord) may easily see, that neither it cometh so far as the Jesuits do pretend, neither hath food and raiment, able to feed or cloth the children & heirs of so great a King. And where having no more shamefastness in their forehead, then they have hair on their bald pates: they have taken this boldness to say, that the Greek is not so corrupt as we say, although the old translator be less corrupted then the Greek: unto whom what may we answer better, then that which our Saviour Christ answered unto the Devil confessing him to be ȳson of God: hold your peace. ¹For beside that the truth cannot bear any praise of such foul mouthed enemies as these be: their praise (inferior to the Devils in-trueth) is always to the same end that his, that is wholly tending to the destruction of the trueth. The Greek is not so corrupt as we say. O impudency: as if there were any, ⟨p. 185⟩that hath called down the royal value of the original Greek, as you have done. Though (in comparison) we know it less sincere and corrupt, then the vulgar Latin. O noble commenders of the Greek copies. Could you have set them lower then in placing them under the vulgar? You might aswell have set the heavens under the earth: considering that the Greek original being borne in heaven, your vulgar sprung out of the dust. How doth also this agree, with your own saying: which affirm that you have forsaken the pointing of the Latin to follow