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…

Preciseness in translation is worthy to be commended, but superstition is worthy no praise. And if the Latin phrase serve the Greek, & answer unto it better sometime then th'English doth: that argueth no more the goodness of the translation, then it proveth th'English to be better then the Latin translation, because the English phrase frameth often better with the Greek, then doth the Latin. Of this preciseness they bring two examples, wherein commending the old translation they condemn ours. The first is for that we translate Tit. 3.¹ 14. to maintain to good works. Your Greek stomachs be very queasy, that cannot brook this translation. Tell us (I pray you) how vvill you translate it ²in Demosthenes, [Greek or Hebrew], but to maintain your right. Howsoever you translate it we care not, ⟨p. 115⟩seeing Budaeus a man of singular skill in³ that tongue, doth so translate it, as we have done. In th'other places Heb. 10. 20. we are charged for turning he prepared. Wherein, whether th'old translator have swerved further from the Greek, it vvill not be so easy to discern. For the Greek word doth properly signify, to make new; which the Latin word, that th'old translator useth, doeth not express. for initio doth not signify, to make new, (for that doth innovo) but to enter into. And this defect of th'old translator in this word, the Jesuits them selves do bewray, which forsaking a proper English word, more expressing the old translators initiabit, have followed M. Bezas translation, who translateth dedicabit, which they turn dedicated, without acknowledgement of him by whom they have (in that place) bettered their translator. The other cavil of Traditions, Justifications & Idol, is plentifully answered, and further shall be, as they fall out in the discourse of this book. But from this precise