A68940:1427
The New Testament diligently corrected and compared with the GreekThe Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke
The New Testament diligently corrected and compared with the Greek by William Tyndale, and finished in the year of our Lord God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the month of November.The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.
Antwerp: printed by Marten Emperowr, 1534Anwerp: printed by Marten Emperowr, 1534
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
First verily I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all / because your faith is §Bpublished through out all the world. For God is my witness / whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his son / that with ⟨p. ccxxi⟩out ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers / beseeching that at one time or another / a prosperous journey (by y• will of god) might fortune me / to come unto you. For I long to see you / that I might bestow among you some spiritual gift / to strength you with all: that is / that I might have consolation together with you / through the common faith / which both ye and I have.
Fyrst verely I thanke my God thorow Iesus Christ for you all / because youre fayth is §Bpublisshed through out all the worlde. For God is my witnes / whom I serve with my sprete in the Gospell of his sonne / that with ⟨p. ccxxi⟩out ceasinge I make mencion of you alwayes in my prayers / besechinge that at one tyme or another / a prosperous iorney (by y• will of god) myght fortune me / to come vnto you. For I longe to see you / that I myght bestowe amō ge you some spirituall gyfte / to strength you with all: that is / that I myght have consolacion together with you / through the commen fayth / which bothe ye and I have.
I would that ye should know brethren / how1 that I have often times purposed to come unto you (but have been let hitherto) to have some fruit among you / as I have among other of y• Gentiles. For I am debtor both to th Greeks & to them which are no Greeks / unto the learned & also unto the unlearned. Likewise / as much as in me is / I am ready to preach the Gospel to you of Rome also.