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…

The Jesuits taking pleasure to prove the Lord an evil husband in suffering thorns and thistles to overgrow his most sacred and holy field, of the original in the new Testament: allege Master Beza, which preferreth the reading of the old translator in some places unto the Greek copies which he had. Wherein first mark, that one sentence of Master Beza is snatched at contrary to his continual practise, through every page in a manner: where he convinceth the old translator, ⟨p. 161⟩of slips and falls in translating. Secondly, observe how fondly they would conclude that Master Beza justifieth the vulgar translation, because he sayeth: that in some places his reading is sounder then the reading which he found in his Greek copies. Thirdly, it ought not to be passed by, how sottishly, they would conclude: that therefore the old translator is in some places purer then the Greek copies, for that he is in some places purer then those copies which Master Beza had. For they might well have known, that as Master Beza had Greek copies which Erasmus had not, whereby he was able to relieve the old interpreter against Erasmus, that charged him to have forsaken the Greek: so divers others may have other copies, which neither Master Beza nor Erasmus have come unto. And therefore if the old translator should have any thing better then the Greek copies, which Master Beza had: yet thereof should it not follow, that it should be purer then all the ⟨p. 162⟩Greek copies. But this is the profane mind of the Jesuits, which would rather put fault in the Greek copies, then either in the negligence, or inability of translators, to get such a number of copies, as might be able to furnish that work of translation throughly. Now of all the examples in the new Testament that they could choose to justify the old translator against the Greek copies: it seemeth good unto them to send us to