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…

We need not travail much to lay forth the shame of these men, who themselves show their own nakedness. Let their first example here be considered: and so let all men judge, whether a most plain sentence of the holy Ghost, be shamefully obscured: and not obscured only, but made senseless. For the Hebrew phrase being rendered, it is plain, that that which they turn spirituals of wickedness, ought to be turned spiritual wickedness. And if they had any care, that the people should have been made wary, against this spiritual craftiness: they would have said, in the heavenly places or things, as the text considered in the circumstance would best bear, rather then to say, celestials. But it should appear that beside their peevish affecting of obscurity, the ignorance of the Hebrew phrase in the former part of this sentence, and the ignorance of the sense in the latter part: drove them upon this witless ⟨p. 201⟩translation. The same ignorance of the Hebrew tongue, caused them to use some like dotage in the next example. For if they had known, that it is ordinary and usual for the Hebrews to understand the verb substantive: & had further learned, that the verb simple, hath (as the place and circumstance requireth) the signification of the compound: they should easily have understood, that this translation, what is between me and thee, had not passed the measure of a simple and plain translation. The next example doth likewise bewray, their ignorance in all good law of translation. For it is well known to children, that every tongue hath a proper composition: in such sort, that he that vvill make the composition of one tongue, agree with the composition of another, utterly corrupteth the tongue, which he vvill conform. And is all one as in a body, which is disfigured and deformed by displacing of the several members thereof. In Hebrew he that saith, MARA MALE,