A68940:2174
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.
The first place in the .vj. Chapter will no more then that they which know the truth / & yet willingly refuse the light / and chose rather to dwell in darkness / & refuse Christ & make a mock of him (as the Pharisees which when they were overcome with scripture & miracles that Christ was the very Messiah / yet had such lust in iniquity that they for soak him / persecuted him slew him & did all the shame that could be imagined to him) cannot be renewed (eis Me tano jam) sayth the Greek / to be converted: ⟨image 353⟩that is to say / such malicious unkindness which is none no• her then the blaspheming of the holy ghost / deserveth that the spirit shall never come more at them to convert th• / which I believe to be as true as any other text in all the scripture.
The fyrst place in the .vj. Chapter will no more then that they which knowe the truthe / & yet willinglye refuse the light / and chose rather to dwell in darcknes / & refuse Christ & make a mocke of him (as the Pharises which when they were ouercome with scripture & myracles that Christ was the verye Messias / yet had soche lust in iniquite that they for soke him / persecuted him slewe him & did all the shame that coulde be ymagined to him) cānot be renued (eis Me tano iam) sayth the Greke / to be conuerted: ⟨image 353⟩that is to saye / soche malycious vnkyndnes which is none no• her then the blaspheminge of the holy ghoost / deserueth that the spirite shall neuer come more at them to conuert th• / which I beleue to be as true as eny other texte in all the scripture.
And what is meant by that place in the tenth chapter where he saith / if we sin willingly after we have received the knowledge of the truth / there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin / is declared immediately after. For he maketh a comparison between Moses & Christ / saying: if he which despised Moses law dyed without mercy how much worse punishment is he worthy of / that treadeth the son of God under foot & counteth the blood of the covenant / by which blood he was sanctified / as an unholy thing & blasphemeth the spirit of grace. By which words it is manifest that he meaneth none other by the fore words / then the sin of blasphemy of the spirit.