PROLOGUE
GodThe names Maria, Jesus, Johannes stand at the head of the MSS; S.P. made mankyndeyn nearly obliterated, S. aftur his owne ymage & lyk|nesse, & put hym in paradys þat was a lond of blysse, & ȝefȝaf P. hym þat lond to haue y-woned þer-ynne euer more & neuer to han be ded, so þat he were buxom to hym & dyde what he bede hym and kepte trewlichetrewlich. on erasure, in darker ink, S. his heste as he was y-holde by pure kynde. For man newas follows, crossed out in red ink, P. hadde no þing of hym|self, bote al þinge þat he hadde it was of Goddis ȝefynge, boþe his owne beynge & his wonynge; and al þynge þat hym neded God graunteded hym, & forbede hym no þing, but þat he ne schulde noȝt eten of a tre þat was a-myddeillegible, P. paradys, þat was y-clepedeped illegible, P. a tre of knowynge boþe good & yuel. For God byhyȝte hym in certeyn, þat what day he ete of þis tre he schulde be deed; & of alle þe oþer trees of paradys God ȝef hym leue to ete. And for man ne schulde not ben alone in þis blysse, he made of man a womman, to ben his helpe, & to ben parsener of þis blysse, & seyde he[o]she with sh on erasure, S. þat ȝhe P. schulde ben his wyf. God made also þe kynde angelis, & putte hem in þe blisse of heuene. & a-mong hem he made on, more wys, bryȝtere, & fayrere, & more of myȝt þan his felowes weren, & clep hym Lucyfer (þat isom. P. to seye, a berere of lyȝt)the gloss added at the bottom of the page, P.. Bot whan þis Lucyfer was maad in alom. P. þis nobeleye & in blisse, he byheld hym-self so fayr, so myȝty, & so wys,
& ne þoȝte not how his God had y-maad hym so of noȝt, to ben in al þat blisse in þe degre of a seruaunt, to wor|schypen his God as a trewe seruaunt schulde; & of his fayrnesse he fel in-to a pryde, & sayde in his þouȝt, Y wole sette my sege in þe norþ, & yom. P. wolechanged to wolde by a later hand, S. wele P. be lyche hym þat is heyȝest in heuene. & many angeles þat weren in heuene assenteden to þis þouȝt of pryde þat Lucyfer had conceyued. & þoom. P. God schewed hym what he was, and by whom he was y-maad of noȝt, & þo Lucyfer knew hym-self & knew his trespas þat heom. P. hadde y-don a-ȝeyn his God, he fel a-down fro þis blisse of heuene in-to þe deppestefollowed by pet of helle, crossed cut. P. sorowe & peyne of helle, þat was a dispeyr of forȝeuenesse of his synne þat he hadde y-don aȝeyns his God. & alle þilke angelis þat assenteden to hym fellyn down fro þe blisse of heuene in-to þe peynes of helle. Bote noȝt alle ylychea lyche P. depe: for þilke þat weren heyȝest in blysse, aftur þe doynge of hure trespas, þei weren deppest in peyne. For al hure wysdom, hure myȝt, & hure bryȝtnesse, þat encresed hure blisse, aftur þei hadden y-synned, encresed hure peyne: & þe grettest peyne þat þei hadden was dispeyr of forȝeuenesse of hure synne. For whan þei knewen how God hadde y-maad hem of noȝt, in so parfyt kynde as þei weren y-maad, & y-putte hem in blisse to hauen eueremore y-dwelled þerynne, & þei of hure owne þouȝtes vnkyndeliche forsoken hure God, & wor|schupeden anoþer as god þat God hade y-maad of noȝt, þei fellen in-to sorowe for þis trespes, & þouȝten hure trespas so gret þat hem þoȝte God ne myȝte not forȝeuen hem hure trespas. & so þei fellen in-to dispeyr of forȝeuenesse, & þatadded above the line, P. dispeyr is þe depe pitt of helle, in þe whuche lyþ Lucyfer & many oþere of his felawes þat fellen wiþ hym from heuene. And þo Lucyfer was y-falle from blisse in-to peyne, he had enuye to mankynde þat wonyed in paradys, & þoȝte he wolde make man lese þe blysse of paradys, as heom. P. for his pryde had y-lost þe blysse of heuene. And so he made hym|self in þe lyknesse of an edder, & come to þe womman þat was
more frele, more unkunnynge þan was man, and axed hure why God had forbeden hem þat þei ne schulde noȝt ete of alle þe tren þat weren in paradys. & þe womman answered, & seyde, 'We eteþ of þe tren þat beþ in paradys, bote of þe tre þat is a-mydde paradys we ne eteþ noȝt, lest we dyen.' Þo seyde þe serpent, 'Nay, dye schul ȝe noȝt, for God wot wel þat what day ȝe eten þer-of, ȝoure yen schulen ben opened, & ȝe schulen ben as goddis, knowynge boþe good & yuel.' & þo þe womman seyȝ þat it was a good tre to eten of, && a P. fayr in seynge & lykynge to þe syȝt. & heo ete þer-of, & ȝaf hure housbonde þer-of; & he ete þer-of also. & þo hure yen were opened & þei seyen hem-self naked; & for schame þei maden hem breches of leues to huydenheden hem P. wiþ hure membres; & þei wenten to huyden hem in paradys from þe syȝt of God. & þo God clep Adam & axed hym where he was; & Adam seyde, 'Lord, for þat y was naked y hudde me from þi syȝt.' & God seyde to hym, 'Who schewed þe þat þou were naked? bote for þou ete of þe tre þat y forbedde þe þat þou ne schuldest ete þer-of.' & þo seyde Adam, 'Þe womman þat þou ȝefe me to my felaw ȝefȝaf P. me of þe tre, & yom. P. ete þer-of.' And God seyde to þe womman, 'Why dudest þou þus?' & heoȝe P. seyde, 'Þe edder bygyled me, & y ete þer-of.' & God seyde to þe serpent, 'For þou hast y-do þus, þou art a-cursed a-mong alle þe beestes of þe erþe.' & God seyde to þe womman, 'Y wole multiplye þi greuaunces & þiom. P. conceyfynges, & in sorow þou schaltben & he schal be þi lord follows, crossed out, P. brynge forþ chyldren, & vnder mannes power þou schalt ben, & he schal be þi lord.' & God seyde to Adam, 'For þou herde þi wyf & ete of þe tre þat y forbedforbad P. þe, acursed be þe erþe in þi werk: in traueyle þou schalt eten of þe erþe alle þe dayes of þi lyf. Breres & þornes þe erþe schal brynge þe forþ, and þou schalt eten herbes of þe erþe. In swot þou schalt ete þi bred, forto þou come aȝeyn in-to þe lond þat þou art y-take out of: for pouder þou art, & in-toþe follows, P. pouder þou schalt be turned a-ȝeyn.' Þo God cloþed Adam and Eue in cloþinge of
beestes skynnes, & seyde, 'Lo, Adam is y-maad as on of us, knowynge boþe good & yuel: and þerfore loke ȝe now lest he take of þe tre of lyf & ete & lyue euere more.' & þo God putt hym out of þe blisse of paradys to worchen in þe erþe, & sette to-fore paradys Cherubyn wiþ a brennenge swerd in his hond to kepe þe tre of lyf. & þo Adam knew his wyf, & heoȝhe P. conceyued and brouȝte forþ a chyld þat þei clepenclepeden P. Caym. And aftur hym he brouȝte forþ an oþernoþer P. chyld, & hym þei clepenclepeden P. Abel: & so in proces of tyme þer comen of Adam & of his wyf muchemochel P. pupel in þe worlde. Bote þei drowen to wykkednesse, & leueden goodnesse. & God, seyngng in paler ink on erasure, S. seyde P. þat man had draweny drawen P. hym to wykkednesse in þe lond of blisse, & also in þe worlde þat was a lond of trauayle & of peyne, seyde hym a-þouȝt þat he had y-mad man. & for hure synne he þouȝte to take vengaunce on hemhim P., & maken an ende of mankynde. & so he sende a gret flod, & dreynte þe worlde & alle þe men þat weren in þe worlde, safe Noe & his wyf & his þre sones & hure wyfes, þat weren safed in Noees schyp þat God bedebad P. hym maken er þan þe flod come. & þo God seyȝ þe frelenesse of man, he by-hyȝte þat he ne wolde noȝt take such vengaunce no more on man by flodes of watir; & in tokene of pees by-twene hym & man, he putte his reyn-bowe in þe cloudes of heuene, & þe streng toward þe erþe in tokene of pees bytwen hym & man. For by-fore þatlord follows, crossed out, P. flod was þer neuere reynbowe y-seyȝe.
"Seþþe euerych manmam P. is y-holde by Cristis lawe of charite to louen his broþer as hym-selfe, ȝe, þat han of Godes grace more knowynge þan we han þat beþ lewed & vn|kunnynge, beþ y-holde to techen us þinges þat beþ nedeful to þe hele of oure soules; þat is to seye, what þing is plesynge to God, & what displeseþ hym also. & y preye ȝow purcharite to techen us lewed men trewlyche þe soþe aftur oure axynge."
"Broþer, y knowe wel þat y am holde by Cristis lawe to parforme þyn axynge; bote naþeles we beþ now so fer
y-fallen a-wey from Cristis lawe, þat ȝifom. P. y wolde answere to þyn axynges y moste in cas vnderfonge þe deþ. & þou wost wel þat a man is y-holden to kepeto kepe in the margin, first corrector's hand, S. his lyf as longe as he may. & parawnter it is spedful to holden oure pes a whyle fortotyl P. þat God foucheþ saf þat his wille be y-knowe: for now þe worlde is ful of wykkednesse, & men han more desyr to lyfen in hure fleschlyche lustes in synne þan to plesen God in forsakynge synne. & y seye þis in certeyn, þat þeom. P. comunte of þe worlde haþ forsaken God & his hestes & heryeþ false goddes. & þat is to al mankynde a gret matere of sorowe: to sen þe grete loue þat God haþ y-schewed to mankynde, & to sen on owre syde how lytel we loueþ hym aȝeynward."
"[L]efeThe rubric in S is an I. broþer,y trowe ful wel þat þe worlde lyfeþ in muche wykkednesse of synne. Bote y trowe þat many men, ȝef þei knewen how þei myȝten plesen hure God, þei ne wolde not spare for drede of no man, ne for loue nouþer, to don þing þat were to his plesynge. And y trowe þat oure God be so good & so mercyful, þat, ȝif we knowlechen to hym oure synnes, and forþynketh oure trespas, & ben in ful wille to offenden hym no more, þan oure hope is þat he wole forȝeuen us oure trespas ȝif we axen mercy. For so he seydede nearly effaced, S. by Ezechyel þe prophete, & also bybe P. Dauyd in þe Santer, & by Jeremye also; & Crist seyde also, þat he ne woldede on erasure, S. wele P. noȝt a synful mannes deþ, bote þat he be turned fromfro P. his synne and lyfe. And oure hope is þat euere more his grace is redy to hem þat axeþ his grace, & putteþ in hym al hureoure P. trust. And y trowe þat he wolde, þat men wysten how þei shulden plesen hym. For he sende his sone þat was his wysdom adown in-to þe worldword P., to techen mankynde how þei schulden plesen his Fadur. Bote y trowe, for men weren to wordlyche, þei ne haddehedde P. no safer in his techynge; & y trowe ful wel þat for men han y-trust more in hure owneIn paler ink in the margin, S. om. P. wysdom þan in
Godes wysdom, þerfore God haþ y-let hem so longe y-worþe, þat we beþ þoroȝ hure wysdom y-fallen into synne: þat we mowen knowe wel þat mannes wysdom ne is bote folye. For y trowe þat verrey wysdom be to drede God, and verrey vnderstondynge to gon awey from synne, & so seiþ Iob. Bote he seiþ þat þis wysdom ne is noȝt y-founde in þe lond of men þat [l]yf[e]þ·yf·y filled in by a later hand; the top of the l is still visible, S. lyueþ P. softelyche. & y trowe þat [ȝ]if [w]eyf ye filled in by a later hand, S. ȝif we P. turne to God in al oure herte, þanne he w[o]lwil in a later hand, S. wel P. be [y]-founde[n]þe founder in the same late hand, S. y founden with y added later, P. of us, as he seyþ by Ieremye his prophete. [And y]& (effaced) þat filled in by the same late hand, S. and y P. byleue wel þat for loue þat he haþ to m[an]kyndemkynde filled in, S. mankynde P. he wole brynge us out of þis myschef of synne, ȝif we desyreþ it wiþ ful herte & trewe. Ne we ne schuleþ not drede þe multitude of oure enemyes, ne hure myȝt, ne hure wysdom, ȝif oure God wole ben oure helpe: For he is myȝty wiþ-outen ende; his wysdom is endeles; his loue & his mercy is euermore redy to hem þat clepeþ hym toto his P. sokour in hure tribulacyoun. & so we oure-selfe beþ þe enchesoun of þe meschef þat we beþ y-fallen ynne. And ȝif he seyȝseiþ P. us desyren helpe, he ne wolde noȝt faylen us at oure gret nede. & broþer, be þou syker þat þe k[n]owynge þat þou hast of þe meschefes of þe worldeword P. is onlyche of Godes grace & noȝt of þi desyrynge. & y rede þouþat þu P. ne huyde it noȝt from ous, þat fayn wolden y-knowenit i knowen with the 2d i added above the line, P. hem & amende oure lyfingīg on erasure, S. lyfes P., lest þou be holden a false seruaunt to God in þe day of dome, for huydynge of þi lordes tresour þat þou schuldest chaffare wiþ to encrese þi lordes tresoure. & who þat is false in lytel, whocrossed out in red ink, P. wolewele he P. taken himinserted in a later hand, S. om. P. þing þat is of grettere valew? & God, þat is a ryȝtful lorde, wole þrowen his vnprofytabel seruauntes in þe day of hure acountes in his derke presoun of helle, whan his profytabel seruauntes, þat han encresed þe goodes þat þei hadde to kepe, schulen ben
y-put in more worschupful offycesoffys P. in þe blisse of heuene. & how myȝt þou seye þat þou art in charite, þat hast plente of Goddes goodes in þi kepynge, & sest us þat beþ þi breþeren in perel of deþ of soule for defaute of suche goodes & þou closest þyn inwardnesse from us? Þinknearly effaced, S. þing P., þat þouȝ þou departe wiþ us of þi tresour, þou schalt raþere wynne þan lese. & þer ne is non so coueytous a man of þe worldes goodes, þat he ne wolde bleþelyche ȝeuen his goodes to nedy men, ȝif he hopede to wynne in his ȝefynge; ne þou ne schuldest noȝt spare for drede of þi deþ, to tellen us a trewþe to brynge us outom. P. of meschef of þe deþ of oure soule. For in [þe]þe P. olde testament þe children of Israel putten hem-self in perele of deþ to brynge hure breþeren out of bodylych meschefes. Oure Lord God also put hym-self in perel of deþ, & vnderfong þe deþ, to brynge us þat were his seruauntes out of meschef of synne: & ȝef oure Lord putte his soule for his serfauntes, it is skylful þat on broþer putte his soule for his breþeren: For þat axeþ þeþe altered from þat, P. lawe of charite þat Crist tauȝte here on erþe, boþe in word & dede. & þink how Crist seiþ, þat who þat loueþ his fadur, his moder, his wyf, oþer his owne lyf abouen hym, he ne is noȝt worþi to hym: &, who þat loueþ his lyf in þis worlde, he schal lesyn his lyf. & siþþe þou seyst þat þe pepel haþ forsaken God & his hestes, and worschupeþ false goddes, it mot folewe nedlyche þat God is muche [v]n-worschupedon on erasure, S. vnworscheped P.: & þanne ȝif þou lofest God ofer alle oþere þinges, þou most ben aboute to encresen his worschupe in drawynge þi breþeren from synne, & techynge hem how þei schulen plese God in kepynge his hestes. & broþer, y preye þe for þe loue þat þou schuldest haue to God & to þi breþeren, þat þou answere trewelyche to þinges þat y wole axen þe to hele of my soule & of oþer mennes soules þat beþ lewedere þan þou art. & ȝif þou ne wylt noȝt, oure hope is þat God wole enformen ous by sum oþer trewe seruaunt of his; & we preyeþ hym to deme þe ryȝt, bytwene ous & þeom. P. in þe dredeful day of dome, bote ȝif þou trewelyche answere to oure axynges."
"Broþer, þou hast a-gast me sumwhat wiþ þyn argumentys. For þouȝ þou ne hafe noȝt y-ben a-mong clerkes at scole, þi skelis þat þou makest beþ y-founded in loue þat is a-bofe resoun þat clerkes vseþ in scole: & per-fore it is hard for me to aȝeynstonde þynþe P. skelys & þyn axynges. For þe argument of loue meuyd God to make þe worlde of noȝt, & man aftur his owne lyknesse, & to putten hym in paradys, to hauen y-woned þere in blysse euere wiþ-outen ende, so þat man wolde kepen h[i]shes in the margin, 1st corrector, S. his P. hestes. & whan man had broken þe heste of his God þorow þe temptacyoun of þe defel, he was worþi by þe argument of resoun to hafe y-lost his cuntray euere wiþ-outen ende for so gret a trespas. Bote lofe made an argument for man, & put hym out ofom. P. his cuntray vnder þe power of þe defel, in þe worlde, to chasten hym for his trespas, & afturward to bryng hym out of þe defeles þraldom in-to his owne cuntray. Aȝeyn þis was a strong argument of lofe: & so God atom. P. þeþat P. tyme þat he sauȝ man benyben P. fulom. P. fer y-falle into þe deueles þraldom, he ches hym a pepel þat weren Israelis children, to techen hem how þei schulden comen aȝeyn to hure cuntray þat was hure kynde herytage, out of þe þraldom þat þei weren fallen in þorouȝ synne. Bote for as muche as man was þat tyme vnkunnynge, vnmyȝty alsoalso...myȝty added at the bottom of the page. P., & þe defel was fel & myȝtyalso...myȝty added at the bottom of the page. P. þat hadde man in his þraldom, God tauȝte man a lessoun to drede hym ouer alle oþere þinges & forsaken alle false goddes. & for þese children of Israel schulde parfytlyche knowen hure lessoun, he suffred hem ben in gret þraldom vnder Pharao þat was kyng of Egypt. & þo þei cryeden to God þat he schulde brynge hem out of þraldom; & he for loue herde hure crienge, [&]in S. & P. sauȝ hure tribulacyoun, and sende Moyses his serfaunt & Aaron his broþer to brynge hem out of Egypt toward hure owne cuntray. & for þei schulden knowe þat þer ne was no God bote he, he harded Pharaoes herte þat was kyng of Egypt, þat he ne wolde not delyferen his pepel out of his þraldom bote by myȝt & strengþe. & so God dude wondres & merueylys in Egypt
by-fore Pharao, þat non oþer god ne myȝte do to schewen his myȝt; & afterward he ladde hem out of Egypt by a wylder|nesse, & bedebad P. hem þei ne schulde noȝt dreden hure ene|myes: For he wolde fyȝte for hem aȝeyn hure enemyes. & so Pharao was wroþ þat þe children of Israel were passed out of his seruyse, & toke his [h]osteh erased before the o, S. hoste P., & pursuede Godes pepel in-to desert to hafe y-brouȝt hem aȝeyn in-to Egypt. & þo God lad his puple ofer þe see wiþ-outen schyp, for he made hem a weye in þe see, & made þe watyr in boþe half of hem stonden upryȝt as walles: & þei passeden ofer drye. & Pharao come after hem þe same weye, & washe was P. adreynt in þe see & al his ost wiþ hym."
"And þo he ladde hem ininto P. desert, & ȝaf hem a lawe by Moyses his seruaunt; & he wrote hym-selfe ten hestes of his lawe in twey tables of ston, in tokenynge þat his puples hertes were þat tyme hard as stonys. Þis lawe was a lawe of drede, to techen hem dreden hym ofer alle oþere þinges; & heom. P. bedebad P. hem kepen his lawe whan þei comen in-to hure cuntray þat he hade by-hoten sumtyme, for he fonde hym a trewe serfaunt. & ȝefom. P. þei kepten his hestes, he byhyȝte hem þat alle hure enemyes on eferych syde schulden drede hem & be serfauntes to hem. He bedebad P. hem þat þei schulden not drede þe power of hure enemyes, for he hym-self wolde fyȝte fore hem & ben chefenteyn of hure ost. & so God lade hem in-to þe lond of byhest. Þus þoroȝ an argument of loue God almyȝty þoroȝ hys myȝt delyferyd his pepel out of bodylyche þraldom, & brouȝte hem in-to a plenteuous cuntray of alle þynge þat hem neded to hure bodylyche lyflode. And so nedilyche y þat am his serfaunt & þi broþer mot graunte þyn argument of loue, & parforme þyn axynges by my power: For þi loue haþ ouercome my resoun. & þerfore axe nouþenouȝ P. what þou wylt."
"Broþer, y þanke ȝou of ȝoure goode wylle, and God contynue ȝou þerynneyou therein repeated in the margin in a XVIth century hand, S. & encrece ȝoure connynge to answere
to myn axynges. & seþþe ȝe han of ȝoure owne fre wylle y-tolde me of þis olde testament, how God brouȝte his pepel out of þraldom, I pray ȝow þat ȝe telle me what manere lawe he ȝefȝaf P. pepel to plesen hym by, & whom he ordeyned to techen his pepel þe lawe, and wheþer þe pupel kepten his lawe whylys þei weren in wyldernesse, oþer non duden. And telle me also hou longe þei lyfeden in wyldernesse er þan he broȝte hem in-to þe lond þat he hadde byhoten hem." "Susterunderlined in P., God lad his pupel bysydes þe hulu changed into y by a later hand, S. of Synay þat is in desert bytwene Egypt & hure owne contray, & þere he made þe pepel dwellento dwellen P. bysydes þe hul. & he toke to hym in-to þe hul Moyses, his seruaunt, and seyde þisto þis P. to erased in S., 'Þou schalt seye to þe children of Israel, Ȝe ȝou-selfen han y-sey what yon erasure, S. ha[u]ehave in the margin, 1st corrector, S. do to men of Egipt, & howin the margin, with caret to mark insertion, S. y haue bore ȝou up on egles wynges, & y-taketake P. ȝou to my-self; & ȝef ȝe kepen myn hestes, ȝe schullen ben my pupel of alle puples.' Þese on erasure, S. þus P. wordeswōrdes expunged; ōr looks as if inserted later, S. when in paler ink in the margin, P. Moyses spak to þe pepel; & þei answerden þat þeiin the margin, 1st corr. S. wolden do alle þingess on erasure, S. þinge P. [þat God bad hem do]Thus in P. om. S.. & God seyde, ȝif þei wolden ben hisis P. pepel & kepen hisis P. hestes, he wolde ben hure God and brynge hem to hure contray: and þe pupel assenteden & seyden þat þei wolden. Bote þei beden God þat he wolde speke to hem by Moyses his serfaunt, what were his wylle, and þei wolden don alle þinge þat hein the margin, 1st corr. S. bade hem. For þei seyden, ȝef God speke to hem, þei ne myȝte noȝt lyfe for þe dredfulnesse of his speche wolde maken hem dye. Þo Moyses wroot hure lawe, as God had y-beden hym, how þei schulden lyfen eferichone wiþ oþer; & ȝif þei breken þe lawe, he ordeyned domes to demen hem aftur þehere P. quantyte of hure trespas. God also hade y-chosen hym þe kynrede of Leui to ben his serfauntes in þe tabernacle boþe nyȝt & day: & of þat kynrede he chees hym Aaron & his
children to ben his prestes in þe tabernacle, to offren sacri|fyces to heryyngeherynge P. of hure God, & also for þe peples synne. & þuse children of Leui, & princypallyche þe prestes, weren ordeyned to teche þe pepel þe cerymonyes of Godes lawe; & whan Moyses had y-tauȝt þe pepel þe domes of Godes lawe, God bedebad P. hym come in-to þe hul aȝeyn to hym, & he wolde ȝefen hym two tables of ston & his lawe & his maunde|mentes þat he schulde teche þe children of Israel. & Moyses wente up into þe hul, & was þere fourty dayes & fourty nyȝtys; & lerned Godes lawe; & lerned how he schulde make a tabernacle to heryen ynne hure God, and how þe prestes schulden ben a-rayed whan þei schulden doom. P. sacryfyce to hure God, and how þei schulden be[n]n effaced, S. ben P. y-maad prestes; also what manere auter þei schulden donom. P. onne hure sacry|fyce."
"And whan þe pepel seyȝ þat Moyses was longe in þe hul, þei comen to Aaron his broþer & seyden, 'Ryse up, & make to ous goddus þat gon by-fore ous; for we ne weteþ noȝt what is byfalle to Moyses þat brouȝte us out of Egypt.' Þo Aaron toke gold & þrew it in-to þe fuyr; & whan it was y-moltenmolten P., þei casten it in-to a forme & maden þer-offe þe lyknes of a calf. & þo þei seyden, 'Þis is þi God, Israel, þat broȝte þe out of Egypt'; & heryed þis calf as for hure God. Þo seyde God to Moyses, 'Go doun, for þi peple haþ y-synned, & beþ go from þe weye þat þou tauȝtest hem. For þei han y-maad hem a calf to hure god, & to hym þei don sacryfyce & seyen, Israel, þis beþ þi goddus þat broȝte þeom. P. out of Egypt. Suffre me þat y take vengaunce up-on hem in þis desert.' Þo Moyses preyede to God þat he ne toke nonno P. suche veniaunce on his pepel, lest þe men of Egypt wolden seye þat heom. P. had y-lad hem in-to hulles to slen hem þere and distruye hem. & so God was y-plesed by Moyses preyere; & Moyses wente adoun wiþ þe tables in his honde þat God had y-wryten in his ten hestes. & whan he seyȝ how þe pepel songen & maden muche myrþe byfore þe calf of go[l]dgod S. P., for wraþþe he þrew þe two tables out of his hond
& breke hem. & þo Moysesoys nearly effaced, S. bedebad P. þat þilke þat weren on Godes half schulden ben y-ioyned to hym: & soFollowed by þe P. children of Leuy comenen nearly obliterated, S. to hym. & Moyses bedebad P. hem gurdegerde with e dotted out between r and d, P. hem wiþ hure swerdes, & gon þoroȝ-out here breþeren, & slen alle þilke þat þei metten wiþ. & so þei duden, & slowen of hure breþeren XXMIII3000 in the margin in a modern hand, S; Vulg. Exodxxxii. 28 viginti tria millia.. & þo seyde Moyses, 'Ȝe han halewed ȝoure honde to day in sleynge ȝoure breþeren.' And þo Moyses wente to God to preyen hym for his pepel: and preyed God, oþer þat he schulde forȝefen þe pepel hure trespas, oþer elles do hym out of þe book þat he had writenywriten P. hym ynne. & God seyde, 'Who þat doþ synne, ych wole don hym oute of my boke; &om. P. in þe day of veniaunce ich wole visyte þis synne of my pepel'; & so God slowȝ many of his pepel for þei heryeden þis calf. Þo God bedbad P. Moyses þat he schulde take þe pepel & leden hem to þe lond þat he had byhoten hem: & he seyde, 'Y nul noȝt goonhe nel followed by nolde (crossed out in red) nat gon followed by om (struck out in red), P. In S n in goon is added by a later hand. wiþ þe, for y se wel þat þis pepel is of an hard hed, lest y destruye hem in þe weye þyderward.' Þo þe pupel made muche sorowe, & Moyses seyde to God, 'Lord, þou byddest me þat y schulde leden hennes þi puple, & þou tellest me noȝt whomwhan P. þou woltwost P. sende wiþ me; & þou saydest þat þou knewe me by name, & þat ich had y-foundefounde P. grace byfore þe: Lord, ȝif ich haue founde grace to-for þe, schewe me þi face, & byholde þi pepel.' & God seyde to Moyses, 'My face schal gon byfore þe, & ich wole ȝefe þe reste.' & þo seyde Moyses, 'Ȝif þou þi-self ne wolt not gon by-foren ous, ne lede þou us not hennes. For how mowe we y-knowe þat we han yfounde grace byfore þe, bote ȝif þou walke wiþ ous in oure weye?' Þo seyde God to Moyses, 'Ich wole don þat þou desyrest, For þou hast y-founde grace to-forebyfore P. me.' Þoþo seyde Moyses...byfore þe om. P. S has ȝif added above the line and me for þe. seyde Moyses, 'Ȝif ich haue yfounde grace by-fore [þ]eþo seyde Moyses...byfore þe om. P. S has ȝif added above the line and me for þe., schewe me þi blisse.'
& þo seyde God, 'Þerþat P. may no man y-se me & lyfen; bote þou schalt stonden up-on a ston, & when þat my blysse passeþ by þe, ich wole putte þe in þe hole of þe ston, & þere ich wole kepe þe forto þat ich passe forþ; & þere þou schalt y-sen þe hynder part of me, bote my face þou myȝt noȝt sen. & after|ward make þe twey stones lyche þe oþer þat beþ ybroken, and ich wole wryten in hem þat was y-wryten in þe oþer tables þat beþ y-broken.' & so Moyses dude, & wende up aȝeyn in-to þe hul, & was þere fourty dayes & fourty nyȝtes: & he ne ete no bred n[e]no S. P. dronk no watyr. & in þe stones he wrot wordes of þe forward þat was by-twene God & his pepel: & þese weren þe tables of testymonye of Goddes testement. & when he come doun to þe pepel, he tolde hem þe wordes þat God hade y-spoke to hym; bote þer come a lyȝt oute of his face in forme of tweyn hornes, þat þe pepel was a-gast to speke wiþ hym, bote ȝefFollowed by him crossed out in red, P. his face were y-wrye. Þo Moyses bad þe pepel brynge gold, & syluersyluel (crossed out in red) precedes, P., & tymber, & oþer þinges þat weren nedful to makynge of þe tabernakel, þat þei schulden heryen ynne hure God; & also to maken þe arke of þe bond þat was bytwene God & man in þe whuche he letteleet P. legge þe twey tables of his lawe. & so þe pepel ȝefen wylfullyche to þe makynge of þe tabernakel al þinge þat byhofed þer-to. & þilke þat God ȝefȝaf P. wytt to worchen, eferych man of hem wroȝte to make þe tabernakele aftur Moyses ordynaunce, & makenmaken has d inserted in a late hand after k (expunged), S. it completcom on erasure, S.. & when it was y-mad wiþ al his aparayl, a cloud kefered þe tabernakele wiþouten-forþ, & þe blysse of God fulled þe tabernakel wiþ-ynne-forþ. And when þe taber|nakel was y-mefed, þe cloud mefed hym þer-wiþ; & when it stod stille, [þe cloude stod stille]P; omitted in S, but with a caret to mark omission and an erasure in the margin opposite. þer-wiþ & wryed it by daye; & a-nyȝt a pyler of fuyr was abofe þe tabernakele. & so þe chyldren of Israel myȝten by daye y-wyte where þe tabernakele were by syȝt of þe cloud, & by nyȝt by syȝt of þe
fuyr. And onlyche Aaron & his chyldren weren ordeyned to ben prestes in þis tabernacle to don sacrifyce to hure God; þe oþer children of Leuy serfeden in þe tabernacle to þe prestes, & kepten þe goodes þat weren in þe tabernacle. & when þe chyldren of Israel wolde remewen from on place to anoþernoþer P. place, þanne þe chyldren of Leuy mosten take a-doun þe tabernacle, & kepe þe partyes þer-of in hure warde. & whan þei weren goynge to-ward a place þat þei wolden abyden ate, þanne summe of þe children of Leuy schulde bere þe arke byforen hem fortetyl P. þei comen to þat place, & þanne þei schulden reren up þe tabernacle aȝeyn. & þe children of Leuy schulden lygge in þe foure sydes of þe tabernacle to kepen it boþe by nyȝt & by day."
"Broþer, þe ten hestes of Goddes lawe þat he wrot in þe tables of ston y knowe sumwhat, y þanke God, bote y neom. P. knowe noȝt þe domes of his lawe; & þerfore y prey þe er þan þou passe eny ferþere, telle meme me P. summe of his domes." "Suster, þe grete dom of his lawe waswhas. P. þat such harm as a man dude to his broþer suche harm he schuldehe schulde corrected from þei schulen, S. þei schullen P. suffre hym-selfe: as ȝef he slow his broþer, he schulde ben y-slawe; ȝef he maymed his broþer, he schuldeschulden S. P. haue þe same maym; ȝef he brende his broþer, he schulde be brend in þe selfe wyse; ȝef a man forsake his God, oþer cursed his God, oþer made hym eny mawmeteunderlined in S. in lyknesse of his God & worschupedworschupeþ P. þat; he schulde be ded. Also, who þat cursedcurseþ P. his fader oþer his moder schulde be ded; & who þat brekeþ þe halyday þat was y-cleped þe sabat schulde be ded; & who þat brekeþ spoushod, oþer man, oþer womman, schulde be ded; & who þat lye wiþ a beste, oþer man, oroþer P. womman, schulde be ded; and who þat dude þe sunne of Sodomytes schulde be ded. Who þat stele hison erasure, S. broþer & solde hym to oþer mysbylefed men in-to þraldom and seruyse schulde be ded; & who þat steleþ his broþeres catel, he schulde noȝt be ded, bote he schulde ȝelden his broþer his catel a-ȝeyn, oþer as muche
þer-fore, & a quantyte more ofer, as þe double, oþer treble, oþer foure syþe so myche. & ȝef he haue noȝt wher-of to make good for his trespas, he schal be sold. & ȝef on broþer bouȝte his broþer to ben his serfaunt & his þral, he schulde hafe hym to serfaunt sixe ȝer, & þe sefeþe ȝer he schulde lete his broþer gon out of his seruyse in fredom ȝef he wolde. & ȝef his broþer lykedlykeþ P. wel his seruyse, & nolde noȝt departen from his broþerinserted above the line in a later hand, S. om. P. þanne he schulde ben his seruaunt for euere. But naþeles his broþer ne schulde nouȝt putten in-to gret þraldom, but do by hym as by an huyrynge-man. & ȝef a man hade y-trespassed aȝeyn þe lawe, men schulde don hym þe ryȝtfulnesse of þe lawe, & ne sparen him noȝt, were he pore oþer riche. & many oþer syche domes God ȝefȝaf P. to reulen riȝtfullyche his pepel."
"Broþer, þou seydest þat God ȝefȝaf P. his pepel cerymonyes as wel as hestes & domes: y preye þe, telle me what manere cerymonyes he ordeyned."
"Suster, God bed his pepel þat þei schulde ben holy & clene for he hymselfe was holy & clene, & þerfore he forbedforbad P. his pepel alle vnclene metes. Of fleschmetes he forbedeforbad P. hem alle þilke beestes þat hadden hure fet departed a two partyes oþer mo, bote ȝef þei chewed hure code; & so swyn, & cattes, & houndes, & suche oþer bestes weren forboden as for vnclene bestes. Oxenox on erasure, S., hertes, schep, & get & suche þeiother inserted above the line in a later hand, S. schulden eten-ten on erasure, S., for þei weren clene bestes. Alle þilke bestes þat han hol fet weren forboden, as hors, & chameyles, for þei beþ vnclenecl on erasure, S.. Of fisches alle þilke þat ne hadde noȝt fynnes ne scales weren forboden, for þei weren vnclene; oþer fysches þei myȝten ete. Of bryddes þilke þat lyfeden bylyfeden by added above the line, P. rafeyn weren forboden, as gripes, and egles, & gledes & suche oþere; & alle volatylesfolatylyes P. þat wenten on foure fet weren vnclene & forboden. Also alle þilke bestes þat crepeþ on þe erþe weren forboden for hure vnclennesse. & who þat touchedtoucheþ P. eny of þese vnclene bestes whan þei weren
[d]edeclede expunged in S. with cloved in the margin in a later hand. clede P. Cf. Vulgate, Levit. xi. 31 Qui tetigerit morticina eorum, immundus erit usque ad vesperum., he schulde be vnclene fortetyl P. efen; & þanne he schulde waschen his cloþes, & so he schulde be clensed. & what vesselv on erasure, S. touche suche careynes of vnclene bestes wiþ|ynne-forþ, oþer cloþes, oþer eny such oþer þing, it schal ben vnclene fortetyl P. efen; & afterward it schal be clansed with water, & þanne isis on erasure, S. it clene, bote ȝef it be an erþen vessel: for it schal be broken whan eny vnclene þing haþ y-be þer-ynne. Also alle manere stondynge watres in cysternes oþer in puttes weren vnclene; also alle manere flesch þat water weren þrowen on was vnclene. & who þat touchedtoucheþ P. þe careyn of a clene best þat dyeddyeþ P. in sum seknesse, he schulde ben vnclene fortetyl P. efen; and who þat eteþ of such aom. P. careyne, or bereþ it oþerorþer P. eny þing þer-of. Þese beþ þe cerymonyes of vnclene metes þat maden men vnclene. Eferich man þat was leprous was vnclene, & schulde by dom of prestes ben y-putt oute of þe cumpanye of his breþeren þat weren clene. & whan he were hol & clene of his lepre, he schulde schewe hym to þe prest, & þe prest schulde offren to God a sacryfyce for his clensynge. What man toucheþ a leprous man is vnclene; what vessel oþer cloþinge þat a leprous man toucheþ it is vnclene; & ȝef it be an erþen vessel þat he toucheþ it schalsal P. be broken. A man also þat þorouȝ seknesse haþ a flux of his kynde passynge from hym is vnclene fortetil P. he be hol of his seknesse; & al þe tyme of his seknesse, who þat touchedtoucheþ P. hym schulde ben vnclene fortotil P. efen; & also who þat touchedtoucheþ P. his bed, oþer sete þer he hade·e had on erasure, S. y-sete, schulde ben vnclene fortotil P. efen. & ȝef he were hol of his seknesse, he schulde tellen viiseuen P. dayes from þe tyme of his clansynge; & whan he had y-waschen al his body & his cloþes in hurnyngehurnynge expunged with renȳnge in the margin, 1st corrector, S. rennyng inserted in P. water, þe eyȝteþe day he schulde come to þe prest, & he schulde offren for hym a sacryfyce to God & preye for hym to God. Also boþe men & wymmen aftur þat þei haden leyen to-gedere, þei schulden ben vnclene
fortotyl P. efen; & þanne þei schulden waschen hure cloþes & hure bodyes, & so þei schulden ben mad clene. A wymman þat hade purgacioun eferich moneþ aftur þe day of hure purgacioun, heȝe P. schulde be holden vnclene sefen dayes afturward; & who þat lye wiþ hure wiþ-ynne þat tyme schulde ben vnclene fortotyl P. efen; & who þat touchedtoucheþ P. hure bed also, & þeom. P. vesseles þat heoȝe P. touchedtoucheþ P. wiþ-ynne þat tyme, schulde ben vnclene. A womman þat hadehadde a P. flux of blod aftur hure kyndelyche purgacioun in þe moneþ was vnclene; & who þat touchedtoucheþ P. hure oþer hure bed schulde ben vnclene fortotyl P. efen. & aftur þeom. P. cessynge of hure flux heoȝe P. schulde counte sefen dayes, & þe eiȝteþe day heoȝe P. schulde come to þe prest, & he schulde offre for hure a sacrifyce to God, & preye for hure. A womman þat hadde y-boren a chyld, ȝef it were a knafe-chyldeknafe underlined in S, with man in the margin in a late hand., sefen dayes heȝe P. schulde ben vnclene, þe eyȝtþe day heoȝe P. schulde circumsydencircumsisen P. hure chyld, and þritty dayes schulden passen er þan heȝe P. schulde come in-to þe seyntewarye, oþer touchen eny halewed þing. Ȝef it were a mayde-chyld þat were y-boren, þe womman schulde ben vnclene two wykes, & LXtisixti P. dayes & sixe heoȝe P. schulde ben in hure purgacyoun; & aftur þese dayes heoȝe P. schulde come to þe prest, & he schulde offren to God a sacrifyce & prey for hure. Þese beþ þe cerymonyes of clene men & vnclene & wymmen also. Þei haden also cerymonyes of halydayes: for þe sixe dayes of þe wyke þei myȝten werche, & þe vííseuenþe P. day þei schulden ben in reste; boþe þe housbonde and his wyf & his children & his serfauntes and his bestes and straungeres also. For whan God maked þe world, sixe dayes he wrouȝte, and þe sefeþeseuenþe P. day he was in reste. And who þat wroȝteom. P. þe haly|day, he schulde ben y-stoned to þe deþ. Þe furste moneþ of þe ȝer, þe fourtenþe day of þe moneþ, PaseCf. Vulgate, Levit. xxiii. 5, Phase Domini est. of God, þe efetyd (þat is to seye, þe passyngess on erasure, S. of GodGod has g on erasure, S.): & on þe morewen þei schulden maken a solempnyte of þerfþerw P. bred; and þis day þei schulden resten from alle bodylyche werkes. And sefen dayes
þei schulden eten þerfþerw P. bred. And þe sefeþeseuenþe P. day schulde be holy as þe furste. Þis God ordeyneþ forr on erasure, S. þeiþei on erasure, S. schulden hafen in muynde how in þe furstee on erasure, S. moneþ ofThe rest of the page is blank in S and P.
HEBREWS.
AndHebreos in margin, 1st corr.; repeated in a late hand as a heading throughout the epistle, S. to þe children of Israel, suster, he wryteþ & saiþ, God haþ y-spoken in many maneres sumtyme in prophetes to oure fadres, bote al-þer last in þese dayes he haþ y-spoken to ous in his Sone, whom he haþ y-ordeyned to ben eyr of alle þinges, by whom also he made þe worldes; & he is þe brytnesse of his blisse, & þe fygure of his substaunce, berynge alle þinges þoroȝ þe word of his vertu, & makynge þe pur|gacyoun of synnes, he syt on þe ryȝt syde of þe mageste an hyȝ in hefne; so muche y-maad betur þan aungeles, in as muche as he haþ an-heryted a different name to-foren hem. For to whuche of þe aungeles haþ God y-sayd in any tyme, Þou art my Sone, to day ich haue bygete þe? & eftsones, Ich wole be to hym a Fader & he schal be my Sone? And eftsones whan he bryngeþ his furst bygeten sone in-to þe worlde he sayþ, & alle his aungeles heryen hym. & to aungeles he seiþ, He makeþ his aungeles spirytes & þi ser|fauntes lye of þeom. P. fuyr. Bote to þe sone he seyþ, Þi throne, God, is from worlde to worlde; & a ȝerde of equyte þe ȝerde of þi kyngdom. Þou hast y-lofed riȝtfulnesse & y-hated wykkednesse; wher-fore þi God haþ a-noynted þe wiþ oyle of gladnesse to-fore þi felawes. &, Lord, in þeþi P. bygynnynge þou foundedest þe erþe, & hefnes beþ þe werkes of þyn honden:
þei schuleþ perysche, bote þou schalt efermore duelle stylle: & alle þei schuleþ waxen old as cloþinge; & as an helynge þou schalt chaungen hem, & þei schuleþ ben y-chaunged: bote þou art efermore on, & þi ȝeres ne schuleþ noȝt faylenfinem in the margin, in a xvth century hand, S.. Bote to whom of þe aungeles haþ he y-sayd her-byfore, Sitte on my ryȝtsyde, for-to þat y putte þin enemyes a stol vnder þi feet? Ne beþ noȝt alle þe spirites serfauntes, & y-send for-to seruen for hem þat takeþ þe erytage of hele?
And þerfore it byhoueþ ous more largelycher added above the line, S. to kepen þilke þinges þat we han y-h[er]edy hyȝed, S.P. Vulg. audivimus., lest þat we fleten aweylest precedes awey, P.. For ȝif þat word þat was y-maad by aungeles was ferme & stabel, & eferich priuaricacyoun & in-obedyence haþ vnder|fongen a ryȝtful rewardynge to mede; how schule we ascape, ȝef we dyspyseþ þus gret an hele? þe whuche hele, whan it hade y-take a bygynnynge to ben y-told by oure Lord, of hem þat herden in ous heo is confermed, God berynge wyttnesse in sygnes & wondres, & dyuerse vertues & delynges of þe Holy Gost, aftur his owene wylle. And God ne made noȝt þe worlde þat is to comen, of whom we spekeþ, of soget to aungeles. Bote onIon with i added in darker ink, S. on P. wittnesseþ in a place & sayþ, What is man, þat þou hast mynde of hym? oþer mannes sone, þat þou vysytest hym? Þou hast y-mad hym lytel lasse þan aungeles, & þou hast corowned hym wiþ ioye & wiþ wor|schupe, & þou hast y-ordeyned hym up-on þe werkes of þin honden: alle þinges þou hast y-mad soget vnder his fet. & in þat it haþ y-mad alle þinges soget to hym, he ne lefed no þing þat ne was soget to hym. Bote ȝet we ne seþ noȝt alle þinges soget to hym. And we seþ hym þat was y-mad luytel lasse þan aungeles, Iesus, for þe suffrenge of deþ y-corowned wiþ ioye & wiþ worschupe, þat [he þoroȝ]Vulg. ut gratia Dei pro omnibus gustaret mortem. þe grace of God schulde for alle men taste þe deþ. For it bysemed hym, þoroȝ whom beþ alle þinges, & for whom beþ alle þinges, þat ladde wiþ hym many chyldren in-to blisse & was auctor of hure hele, to hafe an ende by passyoun. For he þat haleweþ,
& þei þat beþ y-halewed, alle þei beþ ofom. P. on; for whuche enchesoun he ne is noȝt a-schamed to clepen hem his breþeren, seyenge, Y wol telle þi name to my breþeren, & in þe myddel of þeom. P. churche y wole herye þe. & eftsones, Yy wele haue trust...eftsones added in a later hand, P. wole haue turst in hym. & eftsones, Lo y & my chyldren þat God haþ y-ȝefe me. And þerfore for chyldren han y-comuned to his flesch & his blod, he haþ also y-parted wiþ hem; þat þoroȝ deþ he wole distroyen hym þat hade þe empyre of deþ, þat is, þe defel; & wolde delyueren hem þat in drede of deþ by al hure lyf weren soget to þraldom. For nowȝere he toke aungeles, bote he toke þe sed of Abraham. Wherfore he owed by alle þinges to ben y-lekened to breþeren, þat he were y-mad mercyful & a trewe byschop to-fore God, to forȝefen his pepel hure synnes. For in þat he suffred & was y-temptyd, he is myȝty to helpen þilke þat beþ y-tempted.
Wherfore, ȝe holy breþeren þat beþ partyneres of an hefenlyche clepynge, byholde ȝe þe apostul & þe byschop of ȝoure knowlechynge, Iesus, þat is trewe to hym þat made hym, as Moyses was in al his hous. Bote þes is worþi to muche more worschupe þan Moyses, as muche more as he is worþi þat makeþ an housBous, error for Hous, repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S. þan þe hous. For eferich hous is y-buld of sum man; bote he þat made alle þinges he is God. & Moyses was trewe in al his hous as a serfaunt, in witnesse of þilke þinges þat weren to seyen þer-aftur. Bote Crist is as a sone in his hous; whyche hous we beþ, ȝef it so be þat we holden oure trust & þe ioye of oure hope sadlyche to þe ende. Wherfore þe Holy Spiryt saiþ, To day ȝef ȝee hereþ his voyce, ne harde ȝe noȝt ȝoure hertes, after þe day of temptacyoun, þat ȝoure fadrus temptedene in the margin, S. me in desert, where þei prefeden me and syen my werkes fourty ȝeres. Wherfore ich was wroþ to þis generacyoun, & y seyde, Þese erreþ efermore in hure herte: bote þei knewen noȝt my weyes; & y swor to hem in my wraþþe, þat þei ne schulden noȝt entren in-to my reste. And breþeren, loke ȝe, wheþer
þerþer in the margin, 1st corr. S. be in any of ȝou an efel herte of vnbylefe, to departen ȝou from þe lyfynge God; bote prefeþ ȝou-selfe by eferich day, whyles þat þis day is nempned, wheþer eny of ȝou be y|harded þoroȝ þe fallas of synne: for we beþ y-mad partyneres of Crist, ȝef þat we holdeþ þe bygynnynge of his substaunce to þe ende: whyles it is y-sayd, To day ȝef ȝe hereþ his voys, ne harde ȝe noȝt ȝoure hertes, as þei duden in hure tarrynge. For summe tarreden hym, bote noȝt alle þilke þat comen out of Egypt by Moyses. Bote to whom was he wroþ fourty ȝere? bote to þilke þat synneden, whos careynes weren þrowen a-down in desert. And to whom swor he þat þei schulden noȝt entren in-to his reste, bote to þilke þat weren vnbylefynge? & we seþ þat þei ne myȝte not entren in-to his reste for hure vnbylefynge.
And þerfore drede we, leste þe byheste be y-lafte to entren in-to his reste, leste þer be y-founde any of ous fayle þer-hennesh above the line; second n on erasure, S. þer enne, P.. For it is y-told to ous, as it was to hem; bote þe word þat þei herden ne profyted hem noȝt, for it ne was noȝt y-medled wiþ bylefe. For we þat haueþ bylefed schuleþ entren in-to resteste on erasure, S., as he sayde, As ich haue y-swore in my wraþþe, þei ne schuleþ noȝt entren in-to my reste. And whanne in þe bygynnynge of þe worlde he hade parformed his werkes, he saiþ in on place of þeom. P. sefeþe day in þis wyse, God rested þe sefeþe daygod rested þe sefeþ day repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S. from alle his werkes; & in þis place also, Þei ne schuleþ noȝt entren in-to my reste. And for þat summe entreden in-to þat reste, & þilke þat weren byfore to whom it was y-told, ne entrede noȝt in-to þat reste, þerfore he setteþ a certeyn day, To day, in Dauyd seyenge as it is y-sayd abofen, aftur so muche tyme, To day ȝef ȝe hereþ his voys, ne harde ȝe noȝt ȝoure hertes. And ȝef Iesus hade y-ȝefen hem reste, he ne wolde nefer aftur han y-spoken of þis day. And þerfore þer is y-laft a day of reste to Goddes pepel. For he þat entred in-to his reste, he rested from his werkes, as God dude from his werkes. & þerfore hyȝe we to entren in-to þat reste, þat no man falle in-to þat ensampel of
vnbylefe. For Goddes word is lyfynge, & spedful, & more persynge þan eny two-egged swerd: for he comeþ to þe departynge of þe soule & of þe spiryt, & of þe myndes & of þe maryȝes, & knowere of þoȝtes & of þeom. P. willes of þe herte. & þer ne is no creature invysybel in his syȝt. Bote alle þinges beþ naked & opne to his yen to whom oure speche is. And þerfore we þat haueþ a gret byschop þat haþ y-persed hefnes, Iesu Goddes Sone, holde we þe knowlechynge of oure hope. For we ne haueþ no bischop þat ne may haue com|passyoun to oure infirmytees, þat haþ ben y-tempted by alle Þinges to oure lyknesse wiþ-outen synne. And þerfore go we wiþ trust to þe throne of his grace, þat we han mercy & y-fynden grace in cofenabel help.
For euerych byschop þat is y-taken up of men, he is y-ordeyned for men in þese þinges þat beþ to God: to offren ȝiftes & sacryfyces for oure synnes; þat may sorowen wiþ hem þat beþ vnkunnynge & erreþ, for he hymselfe is enuyroned aboute wiþ infirmyte; and þerfore he is y-holde to offren for hym-self & his synnes, as for þe pepel & hure synnes. Ne no man takeþ worschypeworschype repeated in the margin, S. to hymselfen, bote he þat is y-cleped of God, as Aaron. So Cryst ne claryfyed noȝt hym-selfen, þat he were y-maad a byschop, bote he þat spake to hym & sayde, Þou art my sone, to day ich haue bygete þe. As he seiþ in an oþer place, Þou art an euerlastynge prest aftur þe ordre of Melchysedech. & he in þe dayes of his flesch offred preyeres & bysechynges wiþ gret cry & wiþ teres to hym þat myȝte safen hym from deþ, & for his reverence he was y-herd. And ȝet whan he was Goddes sone, he lerned obedyence of þinges þat he suffred; & he þat was y-broȝt to an ende, was y-maad to alle þilke þat boweþ hem to hym a cause of an eferlastynge hele; & of God he was y-cleped a byschop aftur þe order of Melchysedech. Of whom þer is to ous a gret speche þat may noȝt ben expouned, for ȝe beþ y-maad ful febel for-to heren. For þouȝ ȝe oweden to ben maystresy maystres S.P. for tyme, ȝow byhoueþ aȝeynward to ben y-tauȝt whuche beþ þe elementes of þe bygynnynge of Goddes wordes.
And ȝe beþ y-maad so þat ȝou byhofeþ mylkmylk repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S. & no sad mete. For eferich man þat is partener of mylk, he is wiþ-outen part of þe word of ryȝtfulnesse; for he is a smal chyld. Bote sad mete is of parfyt men, of hem þat by costom han hure wyttes y-vsed to discrecyoun of good and of yuel.
Werfore we woleþ senden in a word of þe bygynnynge of Crist, & passen forþ to a more parfyt; noȝt castynge aȝeyn þe foundement of penawnce from dede werkes, & of feiþþe feiþ P. to God, & of baptysmes, & of techynge also of puttynge [in]& S.P. of hondes, & of arysynge aȝeyn of dede men, & of þe eferlastynge dom. & þis we woleþ don, ȝef þat God wole leten us. For it is im-possybele to þilke þat beþ ones y-lyȝted & han y-tasted an hefenlyche ȝefte, & beþ y-made parteneres of þe holy Spiryt, & han y-tasted also þe goode word of God, & þe vertues of þe worlde þat is to comynge, & beþ y-slyde a-ȝeyn, to ben renewed aȝene on erasure, S. to penaunce. For þei crucyfyeþ aȝeyn Goddes sone to hem-seluen, & han hym to a spectakel. For þe erþe þat drynkeþ þe reyn þat falleþ ofte syþes up-on hym, & bryngeþ forþ a cofenabel herbe to þilke men þat heo is y-tyled of, vnderfongeþ blessynge of God: bote ȝef heo bryngeþ forþ breres & þornesbreres þornes repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S., heo is nyȝ cursynge; & þe ende þer-of is to ben y-brand. Bote, my lefeste breþeren, we trusteþ of ȝou beter þinges and neer to hele, þouȝ we speken þus: for God ne is noȝt vnryȝtful, þat he wole forȝeten ȝoureȝ added in a later hand, S. werk & ȝoure lofe þat ȝe han y-schewed in his name: for ȝe han y-mynystred to goode men & ȝet ȝe doþ. & we desyre þat eferich of ȝou schewe oftesyþes þe same bysynesse to fulfullynge of ȝoure hope to þe ende: þat ȝe ben noȝt y-mad slowe, bote foleweres of hem þat by feiþ & pacyence schulleþ an-heryten þe byhestes. For God þat made his byheste to Abraham, for he ne hade no grettour to swere by, he swor by hym-selfe & sayde, Ich wole blesse þe, & ich wole multyplye þe. And so wiþ his longe abydynge he get his byheste. For men swereþ by hym þat is grettur þan þei beþ; & þe
confirmacyoun of þe ende of eferich ple is an oþ. In þe whuche þing God, þat wolde schewen to eyres þe immebelnesse of his conseyl, putte by-twene a gret oþ: þat þorow tweyne im|mebel þinges, in þe whuche it is im-possybel for God to lye, we han þe strengest solas; we þat goþ to-gedere to holde þis forseyd hope, þe whuche we han as a syker & a stabel anker of oure soule, & goynge in-to þe inwardnessein om. P. of þe huydynge; wher Iesus, oure byfore-goere, entred in for ous, y-mad an eferlastynge byschop aftur Melchysedekes ordre.
For þes Melchysedekmelchysedek repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S., kyng of Salem, and a prest of þe heyeste God, þat mette wiþ Abraham whenne he come aȝeyn from þe sleynge of kynges, & blessed hym, to whom Abraham departed þe tenþinges of al his good; & he was furst y-cleped Kyng of ryȝtfulnesse, & afturward Kyng of Salem, þat is, Kyng of pees; wiþ-outen fadur, wiþ-outen moder, wiþ-outen kynrede, nouþer hade [he] bygynnynge of his dayes ne ende of his lyf, bote y-lykned to Goddes Sone, he duelleþ stille an eferlastynge prest. Bote byholdeþ how gret þes is, to& to S.P. whom Abraham ȝef tenþinges þat was on of þe moste worþy patryarkes. For þilke þat weren of þe children of Leui þat vnderfongen presthod haden a comaundement to take tenþinges of þe pepel, after þe lawe of hure owne breþeren, þouȝ þat þei passeden out of Abrahames lendes. Bote he whos generacyoun ne is noȝt y-nombred a-mong hem tok tenþinges of Abraham, & blessed hym þat hade þe re|promyssyones. Bote wiþ-outen any aȝeyn-seyenge þat þing þat is lasse is yblessed of þat þing þat is beter. & here men þat dyeþ takeþ tenþinges; bote þere it is y-wytnessed þat he lyfeþ. And ȝef it mowe be seyd so, by Abraham Leui, þat vnderfong ten-þinges, was y-tenþed; for he was ȝet in his fader lendes, whanne þat Melchysedek mette wiþ hym. And þer-fore ȝef þer hade y-ben an ende by þe presthod of Leui—for vnder þatþe P. presthod þe pepel vnderfong þe lawe—what had it be nedful þat þer hade rysen up an-oþer prest aftur
Melchisedekes order, & noȝt ben y-sayd of þe order of Aaron? For ȝef þe presthode be y-translated, it mot nede ben þat þer be y-mad a translacyoun of þe lawe. For in hym of whom þese þinges beþ y-sayd it is of an-oþer kynrede, of þe whuche kynrede þer ne was non ordeyned to þe auter. For it is open y-knowe þat oure Lord was y-boren of þe kynrede of Iuda; in þe whucheom. P. kynrede Moyses spak no þing of prestes. And ȝet furþer-more it is openlyche y-knowe þat, ȝef þer is a-rysen up an-oþer prest aftur þe lyknesse of Melchysedech, þat ne is noȝt y-mad after þe lawe of þe fleschlyche comaunde|ment, bote aftur þe vertu of a lyf þat may not ben vndon. For he bereþ wytnesse, Þat þou art an eferlastynge prest aftur þe order of Melchisedech. Þanne is þe raþere comaunde|ment reprefed for his infirmyte & his vnprofytabelnesse: for þe lawe brouȝte no man to perfeccyoun. Bote þer is a bryngynge in of a betur hope, by þe whuche we neyȝlacheþ to God. In as muche as it ne is noȝt wiþ-outen a gret oþ—for þe oþer weren y-mad prestes wiþ-outen a gret swerynge bote þes was wiþ a gret swerynge by hym þat sayde to hym, Oure Lord haþ ysworen & it neom. P. schal noȝt a-þinken hym, Þou art an euerlastynge prest—& in so muche Iesu Crist is y-made a byhoter of a beter testement. And þe oþer weren y-mad many prestes, for as muche as þoroȝ deþ þei weren forboden to dwellen efermore stille: bote þes, in þat he dwelleþ efer|more, he haþ an eferlastynge presthode. Wherfore he may efermore safen, neyȝenge by hym-selfen to God, & lyfynge efermore to byseche God for ous. For it by-semed þat oure byschop werewery P. holy, innocent, im-pollut, departed from synful men, & y-mad heyȝer þan hefnes; þat haþ no nede eferich day, as oþer prestes, furst to offren for hure owne gyltes sacryfyces & seþþe for þe pepel: for þat he dude ones, offrynge hym-self. And þe lawe ordeyneþ men to ben prestes, þat habbeþ infyrmyte; bote þe word of þe grete swerynge, þat is aftur þe lawe, ordeyneþ þe sone þat is efermore parfytquod (erasure of two or three letters) peuytt follows in a XVIth century hand; the same name occurs on ff. 67, 69, 71b, 73b, 75b, S..
A chapytre onof P. þilke þinges þat beþ y-sayd: we han suche a byschop, þat sitteþ in þe ryȝtsyde of þe sege of þe Gretnesse of God an hyȝ in hefne, mynyster of seyntes & of þe verrey tabernakel, þat God made, & noȝt man. For eferich byschop is ordeyned to offren ȝeftes & sacryfyces: wherfore it is nedful þat he haue sumwhat forto offren. And þerfore ȝef [he]þer S.P. Vulg. si ergo esset super terram, nec esset sacerdos. were up-on þeom. P. erþe, [he]& þer S.P. neom. P. were no prest, when þer weren þilke þat schulden offre ȝeftes afturof P. þe lawe, þat serfed to þe ensampler & þe schadewe of hefnelyche þinges; as it was y-answerd to Moyses, when he schulde make þe tabernakel, Lokeon erasure, S., God sayde, þat þou make alle þinges as it was y-schewed to þe in þe hul. Bote now þer is y-comen a beter serfynge, by as muche as þe medyatour is of a beter testement, þat is y-halewed in beter byhestes. For ȝef þat raþere hade y-ben wiþ-outen blame, þe place of þe secounde ne schulde noȝt haue ben y-soȝt. Bote God, blamynge hem, saiþ, Lo, dayes comeþ, God saiþ, & ich wole bryngen on þe hous of Israel & on þe hous of Iuda a newe testement; noȝt aftur þat testement þat y made to hure fadres in& S.P. þat day þat y toke hure hond to bryngen hem out of þe lond of Egypt; for þei ne dwelled not stille in myn testement, & y dispysed hem, saiþ God. For þis is þe teste|ment þat ich wole ordeyne to þe hous of Israel aftur þilke dayes, God seiþ, ich wole ȝeue my lawe in hure þouȝt
u inserted above the line, S., & ich wole wryte hym in hure hertes; & ich wole ben hure God, & þei schuleþ be my pepel: and eferich man ne schal noȝt seye to his nextenexte expunged, S. neyȝbore, ne to his broþer, Knowe þou God: for alle þei schulleþ knowe me, from þe leste to þeom. P. meste. For ich wole forȝeuen hem hure synnes, & y nul noȝt haue muynde on hem þer-aftur. And in suggynge, A newe, he made þe raþere waxen old. & þat þing þat waxeþ old is nyȝ his dystruccioun.
And þeom. P. raþere hade iustifyenges & an holy seculer.
For þe tabernakel was furst y-mad, in whom þer weren
chaundeleres, & a table, & proposycyon of loues; þat is y-sayd holy þinges. Bote aftur þe veyl þer is þe secounde taber|nakeltabernakel repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S., þat is y-sayd holy þinge of holy þinges, þat haþ a censer of gold, & þe arke of þeom. P. testement wiþ helynge on eferich syde of gold; in þe arke þer is a pot of gold þat is wiþ manna, & Aarones ȝerde þat broȝte forþ bowes, & þe tables of þe testament; & abouen þeseþese twice, P. þinges was Cherubyn of blisse [o]ferschadewyngeefersch. S.P. þe propycyatorye; of whuche it ne is noȝt now to speken of sundrylyche. & whenne alle þese þinges weren þus y-ordeyned, in þe furste tabernakel entred in prestes efermore, doynge þe offyces of sacryfyces. Bote in þe secounde tabernakel þe byschop al-one, ones in þe ȝer, schulde entren in, noȝt wiþ-outen blod, þat he schulde offren for his owene vnkunnyngnesse & þe peples also: & þis sygny|fyeþ þe Holy Spiryt, þat ȝet noȝt holy mennes lyfynge ne was noȝt y-schewed, whiles þe raþer tabernakel hade his stondynge; þe whuche parable is of þe tyme þat is nowþenewe P., by whom ȝeftes and sacrifyces beþ y-offred, þat mowe noȝt maken hym þat serfeþ parfyt in his conscyence, in metes & drynkes & dyuerse waschynges & riȝtfulnesse of þe flesch, þat weren y-ordeyned in-to þe tyme of correccyoun. Bote Crist þat is a byschop of goodes þat beþ to comynge, [in]& S.P. a more large & aom. P. more parfyt tabernakel, noȝt y-mad wiþ honden, þat isom. P. to seyn, noȝt of þis creacyoun, nouþerneyþer P. by gotes blod ne by calfes blod, bote þoroȝ his owne blod he entred in-to holy places þat weren y-founden by an efer|lastynge redempcyoun. For ȝef þat gotes blod oþer boles blod, oþer þe aschenconrē (expunged) in the text with aschen in the margin, probably in the original scribe's hand, S. of a cow-calf y-spreynd on men, haleweþ hem þat beþ defouled to þe clansynge of hure flesch: how muche more schal Cristes blod, þat by þe Holy Gost offred hym-selfe wiþ-outen wem to God, makeschal make, S.P. clene hure con|scyence from dede werkes to serue þe lyuynge God? And þerfore he is a medyatour of a newe testement, þat, þoroȝ þe bysechynge of deþ in forbuggynge of þe preuarycaciones þat
weren vnder þe raþere testement, þei taken a byheste þat beþ y-cleped of an eferlastynge heritage. For þer as is a testa|ment, it is nedful þat þe deþ go bytwene of hym þat oweþ þe testament. For a testement in dede men is y-confermyd: for it a-vayleþ noȝt whyles he lyueþ þat makeþ þe testement. Wherfore þe furste ne was noȝt y-halewed wiþ-oute blod. For whanne þat eferich comaundement of þe lawe was y-rad of Moyses to al þe pepel, he toke gotes blod & calfes blod, wiþ water & red wolle & ysope, & spreynde þe bok & al þe pepel, & sayde, Þis is þe blod of þe testement þat God haþ y-send to ȝow. He spreynde also wiþ blod þe tabernakel & alle þe vesseles þat serfeden þer-to. And almost alle þinges beþ y-mad clene wiþ blod aftur þe lawe, & wiþ-outen schedyngeschendynge P. of blod þer ne is y-mad no remyssyoun. And þerfore it is nedeful þat þe sampleres of hefenlyche þinges ben y-mad clene þoroȝ þese þinges; bote þilke hefenliche þinges [þo]roȝȝroȝ S.P. muche betur þinges þan þese beþ. For Iesu ne entred noȝt in-to holy places y-mad wiþ honden, þat beþ sampleres of verrey places; bote in-to þe self hefne, þat he appere now to þe syȝt of God for ous: and noȝt þat he offre felesyþes hym-selfe, as þe byschop doþ wiþ-ynne holy places, eferich ȝer in an-oþer þinges blod; oþer it hade byhoued hym fele syþes to haue y-suffred from þe bygynnynge of þe worlde. Bote now he apered ones in þe ende of þe worlde to distruccioun of synne by his owne sacrifyce. & riȝt as it was y-ordeyned to men for-to dyen ones & syþþe comen to dom; ryȝt so Crist was y-offred ones to þe clensynge of many mennes synnes, & in þe secounde tyme he schal appere to hem þat abydeþ hym in-to hele.
For þe lawe haþ a schadewe of goodis þat beþ to comynge, & noȝt þat ymage of þinges, [&] eferich ȝer offreþ þe selfe sacrifyces wiþ-outen cessynge, & may noȝt maken hem parfyt þat haueþ accesse to hem. For elles me schulde hafe y-cessyd to offren sacrifyces, for as muche as þe doeres þer-of, ones y-mad clene, ne schulden hafe y-had afturward no conscyence of synne. Bote eferyche ȝer in hem þer is y-mad a muynde of synnes. For it is impossybel for synnes
to ben y-don a-wey þoroȝ gotes blod oþer boles blod. And þerfore whanne he comeþ in-to þe worlde, he saiþ, Þou ne desyredestdesyrest P. noȝt sacryfyce & offrynge, bote þou schapedest to ,me a body; & holocaustesholocaustes, þt is sakerfices brent added in the margin, 1st corrector's hand, S. for synne ne plesede þe noȝt: & þo y sayde, Lo, y come—in þe bygynnynge of þe bok it is y-wryten of me—þat y do þi wille, God. & so suggynge abofe, þat þou ne woldest noȝt sacrifyces & offrynges & holo|caustes for synnes, ne þei weren noȝt plesynge to þe þat beþ y-offred aftur þe lawe, þo yom. P. sayde, Lo, God, ygod y on erasure, S. come þat y do þi wylle. He doþ awey þe raþer, þat he stable þat þat foleweþ. In þe whuche wylle we beþ y-halewed by þe offrynge of þe body of Iesu Crist ones. And eferich prest mot ben eferich day redy mynystryngemynȳstrȳge S. & offrynge fele syþes þe same sacryfyces, þat mowen nefer don awey synnes: bote þes prestþese prest S. þese prestes P., offrynge on sacryfyce for synnes, sytteþ efer|more in þeom. P. ryȝt syde of God, abydynge her-aftur for-to þat his enemyes ben y-sett þe stool of his fet. For þoroȝ on offrynge he made men holy for efer. For þe Holy Gost wytnesseþ þat whanne he saiþ, Þis schal be þe testement þat ich wole make to hem aftur þilke dayes, seiþ God, ich wole ȝeue my lawes in hure hertes, & ich wole wryte hem in hure þoȝtes; & y nul byþenke no more of hure wyckednesse & hure synnes. & þer as is forȝeuenesse of þese, þer is non offrynge for synne. And þerfore, breþeren, we habbeþ a trust in þe entrynge of seyntes in Cristes blod, in þe whuche trust he haþ y-cast to ous a newe weye & a lyfynge þoroȝ þe keferynge, þat is, þoroȝ his flesch; & þoroȝ a gret prest vp-on Godes hous; & come we to hym wiþ a trewe herte in fulnesse of bylefe, & sprenge we oure hertes from an efel conscyence, & wasche we þe body wiþ clene watyr, & holde we þe know|lechynge of oure hope bowynge to no syde; for he is trewe of þat hehe in the margin, S. haþ y-ȝefen ous a byheste. And byholde we to|gedere in sterynge of charyte & of goode werkes, noȝt lefynge oure quyletes, as it is a custom to summe men, bote
comfortynge eferychone oþer; & so muche þe more as we seþ þe day neyȝlechen. For ȝif þat we synneþ wylfullyche after þe vnderfongynge of þe knowleche of trewþe, þer ne is noȝt y-laft a sacrifyce for oure synnes, bote þer is a dredful abydynge of þe dom, & þe sewynge fuyr þat schal consumen þe aduersaryes of Crist. For who þat brekes Moyses lawe, wiþ-outen any mercy, vnder two oþer þre wytnesses, he is y-don to þe deþ; how muche more trewe, ȝef þat hehe in the margin, S. deserfe grettere tormentynges þat defouleþ Godes sone, & defouleþ þe blod of þe testament, in whom he is y-halewed, & doþ wrong to þe Spiryt of grace? For we wyteþ þat he seyde, To me veniaunce, & ich wole ȝelden aȝeyn. & eftsones, For God schal demen his pepel. And þerfore it is dredful to fallen in-to þe hondes of þe lyfynge God. Bote hafe ȝe muynde of þe raþer dayes, in whom ȝe weren y-lyȝted & susteyned a gret batayle of suffrynges; & in anoþer day ȝe weren y-mad a spectakel to reprefes & trybulacyones; & an|oþer day ȝe beþ y-mad felawes of þilke þat han such conuer|sacyoun. For ȝe haden compassyoun of hem þat weren y-bounden, & vnderfongen þe robbynge of ȝoure goodes wiþ ioye, knowynge þat ȝe haden a beter substaunce dwellynge in hefne. Ne lese ȝe noȝt þanne ȝoure trust þat haþ a gret rewardynge. For pacyence is nedful to ȝow þat ȝe don þe wylle of God, þat ȝe bryngen his byheste. And ȝet a lytelytel on erasure, S. whyle, & wiþynne a lytel whyle he þat is to comynge schal come; & my ryȝtful man lyfeþ of bylefe: & ȝef he wiþ-draweþ his fot he ne schal noȝt plesen his soule. Bote we ne beþ noȝt chyldren of wyþdrawynge in-to perdycioun, bote Goddes chyldren in getynge of þe soule.
Bote feiþ is þe substaunce of þinges þat beþ to ben y-hoped, & an argument of þinges þat semeþ noȝt. For in þis olde men han y-had testymonye. Þoroȝ feiþ we vnder|stondeþ þat þe worldes weren y-mad þoroȝ þe word of God, & þat of in-vysybel þinges weren y-mad þinges þat mowen ben y-seye. Þoroȝ feiþ Abel offred a grettere sacrifyce þan
Caym, þoroȝ whuche he hade wytnesse þat he was ryȝtful. For God ber wytnesse to his ȝeftes: & þoroȝ hure he spak when þat he was ded. Þoroȝ feiþ Enoch wasþoroȝ feiþ enoch was saf repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S. translated þat he ne seyȝ noȝt deþ; & he ne was noȝt y-founde, for Godon erasure, S. translated hym: for byforen his translacyoun he hade witnesse þat he plesede God: & wiþ-outen feiþ it is im|possybel for-to plese God: for it byhoueþ þilke þat wolleþ come to God bylefen þat he is, & to þilke þat secheþ hym bysylyche he is y-mad a rewarder. And þoroȝ feiþ Noe vnderfong an answere of þinges þat ne were noȝt y-seye byfore, &, dredynge, he ordeyned hym a schyp to þe hele of his houshold; by whom he dampned þe worlde, & was y-mad eyr of þe ryȝtfulnesse þat is þoroȝ feiþ. And þoroȝ feiþ Abraham, y-cleped, obeysched to gon in-to þe place þat he schulde vnderfongen for erytage; & wente forþ, noȝt knowynge whyder þat he wente. & þoroȝ feiþ he dwelled in þe lond of byheste, as a straunger, wonyng inin þe P. lytel houses, wiþ Ysaac & wiþ Iacob, þat weren eyres wiþ hym of þe same byheste: for he abod a cyte hauynge foundementes, whos werk-men & makere was God. And þoroȝ feiþ Sara þat was bareyne vnderfong vertu in consceyfynge of seed & aȝeyn þe tyme of hure age, for heoȝhe P. bylefed þat he was trewe þat hade by-hoten hure; wherfore of on beþ many y-boren, & aftur þat he was ded, as þe multitude of þe sterres of hefne, & as þe grafel in þe brynke of þe see þat may noȝt ben y-nombred. By feyþ alle þese beþ dede, wiþ-outen vnderfongynge of þe byheste, bote byholdynge a-fer þyn[g]eþynke with nke on erasure, S. þinge P. Vulg. non acceptis repromissionibus, sed a longe eas aspicientes. ofof in the margin, S. byhestes, & saluwynge hem, & knowlechynge þat þei beþ pilgrymes & men herborewed on þe erþe. For þei þat seyen þis sygnyfyeþ þat þei secheþ a contray. & ȝef þei haden y-had muynde of þe contray þat þei wenten out of, þei haden tyme to haue y-turned aȝeyn. Bote now desyreþ a beter, þat is, an hefenlyche contrey. And þerfore God ne is noȝt
y-confoundedy om. P. to ben y-cleped hure God: for he haþ y-ordeyned to hem a cyte. And þoroȝ feiþ Abraham offred Ysaac whan he was y-tempted, & offred his on bygeten sone þat hade vnderfongen þe byheste; for to hym it was y-sayd, In Ysaac þi seed schal ben y-cleped: schewynge þat God is myȝty to areren up men from deþ to lyf. Wherfore he vnderfong hym in a parable. & þoroȝ feiþ of þinges þat weren to comynge, Ysaac blessed Iacob & Esau. & þoroȝ feiþ Iacob dyynge blessed Iosephes chyldren, & honoured þe hyȝschyp of his ȝerde; & þoroȝ feyþ Ioseph dyynge hade muynde of þe passynge forþ of þe chyldren of Israel, & comaunded of his bones. And þoroȝ feiþ Moyses, whanan on erasure, P. he was y-bore, was y-hud þre moneþes of his eldren, for þei seyen þat he was a welfaryng chyld, & dradde noȝt þe kynges comaunde|ment. And þoroȝ feiþ Moyses [was] y-mad gret and forsok þat he was Pharaoes douȝter sone; desyryng more to ben y-peyned wiþ Goddes peple, þan for-to haue temporel murþe of synne; trowynge þe obbroydThe catchwords at the bottom of fol. 72b have obbrayd of S. of Crist grettour rychesse þan þe tresour of Egypcyenes: for he byheld in-to þe remuneracyoun. Þoroȝ feiþ he lefed Egypt, noȝt dredynge þe boldschype of þe kyng; for heom. P. abod hym þat was in-vysybel as þouȝ he seye hym. Þoroȝ feyþ he halewed pask, and þe schedynge of blod, lest he touched hem þat wasted þe furste bygeten þinges of Egipcyenes. And þoroȝ feiþ þei passeden ouer þe Rede See as by druye lond: bote þe Egypcyenes asayeden þat & weren deuoured.
And þoroȝ feiþ menVulg. Fide muri Iericho corruerunt. of Ierycho fullen a-doun þoroȝ þe circuyt of sefen dayes. & þoroȝ feiþ Raab þe hore ne perysched noȝt wiþ oþer þat weren vnbylefed, vnderfongynge þe aspyes wiþ pees. & what schal y seye ȝet? for tyme wole fayle me to telle of Gedeon, Barac, Sampson, Iepte, Dauyd, Samuel & þe prophetes: þat by feiþ ofer-comeneuercomen P. kyngdomes, & wroȝten ryȝtfulnes, & geten repromyssyones, & stoppeden lyones mouþes, & quencheden þe impetuesnesse of fuyr, & dryfen a-wey þe scharpnesse of swerd, & han
y-kefered of seknesse, & han [ben y-] madvp y mad P.; S. has vp (followed by erasure of one letter) mad, the p being altered from b. Vulg. fortes facti sunt. strong in batayle, & han y-turned up þe casteles of straunge men. & wymmen han vnderfongen hure housbondes arysynge aȝeyn from deþ to lyf: but oþer han y-be wiþholden, noȝt underfongynge redempcyoun; for þei wolden y-fynde a beter resureccion: oþer hafeþ assayed dyspysynges & betynges, & prisones & byndynge: & han y-ben y-stoned & to-hewe & y-temptyd, & han y-dyed þoroȝ sleynge of swerd. And summe han y-gon aboute in rouȝ cloþinge of heres, & in gotes skynnes; nedy & a-nuyed & y-angwysched, to whom þe world ne was noȝt worþi; errynge in wyldernesse & in hulles & in dennes & holes of þe erþe. & alle þeseþese þei S.P., prefed þoroȝ wytnessynge of feiþ, ne vnderfongen noȝt þe repromyssyoun: for God ordeyned sum þyng beter for us, þat þei ne schulde noȝt ben y-broȝt to ende wiþ-outen ous.
And þerfore we þat hafeþ so gret a cloud of wytnesses y-putte to ous, do we a-wey from ous eferich charge & synne þat stondeþ abouten ous, & renne we by pacyence to þe fyȝtynge þat is y-purposed to ous, byholdynge in-to þe auctor & þe bryngere to ende of oure feiþ Iesus, þat whenne ioye was y-purposed to hym he suffred þe cros, dispysynge confusyoun, & he sytteþ on þe ryȝt syde of þe sege of God. & þerfore byþinkeþ ȝow on hym þat suffred synful men aȝeyn-seyenge hym, þat ȝe ne ben noȝt y-w[e]ryedy waryed S.P. Vulg. ne fatigemini., faylynge to ȝoure soules. For ȝet now ȝe ne hafeþ noȝt aȝeynstondynge, fyȝtynge aȝeyn synne, to þe schedynge of ȝoure blod. & hafe ȝe forȝeten þe comfort þat God haþ spoken to ous as to his chyldren, seyenge, My chyld, ne dispyse þou noȝt þe techynge of oure Lord, ne be þou noȝt y-weryed whyles þou art y-prefed of hym; for he chasteþ þilke þat he loueþ, & he scoureþ eferych chyld þat he receyfeþ. Abyde ȝe stylle in techynge, for God ȝefeþ hymself to ȝow as to his chyldren; & what chyldchyld repeated in the margin, S. is þere þat þe fader ne chasteþ noȝt? & ȝef ȝe beþ out of techynge, whos partyneres ben ȝe y-mad alle?
þanne be ȝe spousebrekeres & noȝt sones. Furþermore, we haden fadres þat weren techeres of oure flesch, & we wor|schupeden hem: muche more we schulleþ be buxom to þe Fader of spirytes, & we schulleþ lyfen. And þei wiþ-ynne a fewe dayes enformeden ous aftur hure owne wylle; bote þes to þat þing þat is profytabel, in receyfynge his holynesse. Bote eferyche techynge in þis tyme ne semeþ noȝt to ben of ioye, bote of deþ. Bote afterward he schal ȝelde to þilke þat han wel y-lerned þe moste pesful fruyt of ryȝtfulnesse. Wherfore rereþ up ȝoure remysse hondes, & ȝowre knees þat beþ dissolut; & makeþ efene þe goynges to ȝoure fet, þat no man erre haltynge, bote be raþer y-heled. & folewe ȝe pes with alle men, & holynesse wiþouten whom no man schal y-seo God. And loke ȝe, þat no man lakke þe grace of God; ne þat no rote of bytternesse bourgenynge upward latte no man, þoroȝ þe whuche many men ben defouled; ne þat no man beben...man be on erasure, S. a lechour, & wycked as Esau, þat for mete solde his herytage. For wyte ȝe wel, þat whanne he desyred to hafe an-heryted þe blessynge, he was reprefed, for he ne fonde no place of penaunce, þouȝ þat he souȝte it wiþ teres. For ȝe ne beþ noȝt y-come to þe fuyr, þat me may holden & neyȝlechen þer-to, ne to þe whyrlewynd & to tempest, ne to þe sown of a trumpe, ne to þe voys of wordes, whom þilke þat herde excuseden hem-selfe, for þat þe voys ne schulde noȝt ben y-mad to hem: for þey ne beren noȝt þat þat was y-seyd, & ȝef a best hade y-touched þe hul, he schuldehe schulde twice, the first expunged. S. haue ben y-stoned; & so dredful it was þat was y-seye, for Moyses seyde, Ich am a-gast & quakynge for drede. Bote ȝe beþ y-come to þe hul of Syon, & to þe hefenlyche Ierusalem þat is þe cyte of þe lyfynge God, & to þe cumpany of many þousandes of aungeles, & to þe churche of primytyfes þat beþ y-wryten to-gedere in hefenes, & to þe domesman of alle spyrytes & of ryȝtful men & of parfyt men, & to þe medyatour of a newe testement, Iesus, & to þe schedynge of his blod þat spak betere þan Abel. & loke ȝe þat ȝe ne refuse noȝt hym þat spekeþ. For ȝef þei neom. P. a-scaped noȝt, þat refuseden
hym þat spak vp-on þe erþe, muche more we ne schuleþ noȝt, þat turneþ ous a-wey from hym þat spekeþ to ous from hefene: whos voyce meued þe erþe sumtyme: bote he byhoteþ now & seiþ, Ȝet ones, & ich wol meue noȝt onlyche þe erþe bote hefene also. What is þat, þat he seiþ Ones? in& P. þat he declareþ þe translacyoun of mebel þinges, as of þinges þat beþ y-don, þat þey þat beþ im-mebel þinges dwellen stylle. & þerfore we þat vnderfongeþ a kyngdom þat is im-mebel hafeþ a grace, þoroȝ whom we schulen seruen oure God wiþ drede & wiþ reuerence: for oure God is fuyr þat consumeþ.
Þe charite of breþerhede dwelle a-mong ȝow. & ne forȝete ȝe noȝt hospytalite: for þer-þoroȝ sum men han y-plesed aungeles in receyuynge hem to herborewe. & hafe ȝe muynde of hem þat beþ y-bounde, as þouȝ ȝe weren y-bounde ȝow-selfen; & of hem þat trafayleþ, as þouȝ ȝe ȝow-selfen weren duellynge in body. And be þer worschupful wedlak in allein alle in the margin, later hand, S. þinges, & a bed wiþ-outen wem: for God schal deme boþe lecchours & spousbrekeres. And ben ȝoure maneres wiþ-outen couey|tysety om. P., a-payd wiþ present þinges: for God saiþ, Y nul noȝt lefe þe. So þat we mowen seye trustylyche, My lord is myn helpere, & y nul not drede what no man do to me. And hafe ȝe muynde of hem þat beþ y-set to-fore ȝow, þat hafeþ y-spoke to ȝow Goddus word; & byholde ȝe þe yssew of hure conuersacyoun, & folewe ȝe hure feiþ. Iesu Crist was ȝurstay & to day, and he is efermore. Ne be ȝe noȝt y-lad awey with dyuerse techynges & straunge: for it is best þat þe herte be y-stabled in grace; noȝt in metes, þat ne profytedprofyteþ P. noȝt to hem þat walkeden in hem. We han an auter, of whom no men han power forto eten bote þilke þat serfeþ in þe taber|nakel. For of þilke bestes, whos blod is y-boren in-to holy places by þe byschop for synne, hure bodyes beþ y-brent wiþ-outen þe casteles. Wherfore Iesus, for he wolde halewen his pepel þoroȝ his blod, he suffred his passyoun with-outen þe ȝate. & þerfore go we out to hym wiþ-outen þe casteles,
berynge his obbrayd. For we ne hafeþ noȝt here no cyte þat is dwellynge, bote we secheþ on þat is to comen. For þoroȝ hym we offreþ efermore a sacrifyce of heryynge to God, þat is, þe fruyt of þe lyppys þat knowlecheþ to his name. Bote ne forȝete ȝe noȝt of wel doynge & of comunyon, for in syche sacrifices God is y-worschuped. & be ȝe buxom & sogettes to hem þat beþ abofe ȝow: for þei wakeþ as for-to ȝelden acountes for ȝoure soules; þat þei don it wiþ ioye & noȝt wiþ sorowe: for þat ne is noȝt spedful to ȝow. & preyeþ for ous: for we trusteþ þat we han a good conscyence in all þilke þat han good wylle to don wel. & þe more largelyche y preye ȝow þat ȝe don so, in as myche as y schal þe raþere comen aȝeyn to ȝou. & God of pees, þat broȝte out from deþ oure Lord Iesu Crist, a gret schepherde of alle men in þe blod of on eferlastynge testement, ordeyne ȝow in eferich place þat ȝe don his wylle, & do in ȝow þat be plesynge in hym by Iesu Crist; to whom be ioye & blysse worlde wiþ|outen ende. Amen.
Þus, suster, seynt Poule haþ y-tauȝt men for-to lyfen þat byleueþ in Crist in his pystelis. And to Tymothe he wryteþ on pistel, how he schulde hafen hymself in good ensampel to oþer men, & seiþ in þis wyse,
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLESMSS. C and D begin here. Here bigynnes þo actus of apostuls C. Actuum apostolorum S.P. Apostolorum D..
AlsCo 1. in the margin, C. saynte Luke telles ande writes of þo dedes of þo apostuls, andeom. S.P.D. sais vponon S.P.D. þis wise, Forsoþe, þou Theophul, þe firste sermone I made of alleþinges follows in a later hand, P. þat Iesus bigan to do ande& to D. teche, vnto þat daye þat daye þat he ascended vppe (or was taken uppe), comawndeandecomaundede S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. þo apostulsposteles S.P. þurghe þo Holigoste þo whiche he chees: ande vnto þo whiche he schewed hym|seluen lifande efter hise passion in many argumentes, bi fourtyargumen (crossed through) tes follows, C. daysdays in the margin, C. apperande vnto hem, ande spekande of þo kengdome of God: ande etande he comanded hem þat þei schulde noghte departe norno P. go away fro Jerusalem, bot þat þei schulde abide þo sonde ande þo bihetyngehetynge S.P.D. of þo fader, þat ȝhe haue harde, he saide, bi my mowþe: forom. P. forsoþe Iohn baptised in water, forsoþe ȝhe schal be baptised þurghe þo Holigoste noghte myche efter þise dais. Þerfore þei þat wore komen togader asched hym, ande saide, Schalt þou in þat tyme restore þo kengdomeþe kyngdom (crossed out) follows, S. of IsraelIrael D.? Ande he saide soþely unto hem, Hit es noghte ȝoures to knowe þo tymes (or, hit falles noghte to ȝowe) ande þo momentes, þo whiche mymy fader (expunged) ends fol. 85b; the line is unfinished with room for 7-8 letters more; my fader repeated on fol. 86 S. Fader has putte in his power. Bot ȝhe schal take vertewe comande fro abouen vnto ȝowe of þo Holygoste into ȝowe: ande vntoto S.P.D. me witnesses ȝhe schal bebere S.P.D. in Ieru|salem, ande in al Iury ande Samarye, ande vnto þo ferresteferþeste S.P.D. ande laste of erþe. Ande whanne he hade saide þise þinges, hemþei S.P.D. seande, he was lifte vppe; ande a clowde toke hym fro her eyghne. Andeom. S.P.D. whanne þei lokedlokande S.P.D. vppe intoin tul S.P.D. heuen efter h[y]mhem C. hym S.P.D. wendande, lo, twootwey S.P.D. men stoden biside hem in white
cloþinges, þo whiche saide vnto hem, Men of Galilee, wherto stonde ȝhe biholdande into heuen? [He þis Iesus þat es up-taken fro ȝou in-to heuene]S.P.D., righte as ȝhe sawe hym ascendein the margin, C. vntoom. P. up into S.D. heuenom. P., right so schal he kome asos S.D. ȝhe sawe hym wende. Þannew division with initial, S.P.D. ii in the margin, D. turned þei agayne vntoto S.P.D. Ierusalem fro þe mownte of Olyuete, þat es biside Ierusalem. Ande whanne þei hade enturde into þerþe P. cynacle (a howse þat þei dwelled inne), þei ȝode vppe where Peter dwelled, ande Iohn, ande Iames, ande Andrewe, ande Philippe, & Thomas, ande Bartholomewbertulmew S.P. berthilmew D., ande Mathewe ande Iacob Alphei, ande Symonsymonde S.P.D. Zelotes & Iudas Iacobi. Alle þise were lastande in preyer togader wiþ wymmen, ande Mary Jesu moder, ande hire breþer. Innew division with initial, S.P.D. iii in the margin, D. þo dais Peter ros uppe inmyddesy myddys S.P.D. þo breþer, ande saide—þo company of men þat was þer togider was nerehandenyhande S.P.D. a hundreþean hundred S.P.D. ande twenty—Ȝhe men ande my breþer, þo writte þat þo Holigoste has bifore saide, hit bihoues to be fulfilled of Iudas by DauidDauis S.P. mowþe, þo whiche wasin the margin, C. ledar of hem þat toke Iesu; þo whiche was noumburde in vs (þat eseer S.P.D., was of oure company), ande he es lotted in þo lote of þis priuete. Ande he þis forsoþe fledde away, ande helde þo felde of þo hire of wikkednes (þat es, þat was boghte wiþ þo money þat Criste was solde fore), ande hongedhenged S.P.D. hymseluen, ande braste ymiddesin m. S.P.D., ande alle hise guttes & entrailes wore ȝette oute. Ande hit es knowne þinge vntotil S.D. to P. allealle men P. þat dwellen in Ierusalem, so as þatþat (inserted) þe P. felde was called on þer langage Acheldemac, þat es, Þo felde of blodeChapters I. 20-IV. 6 omitted in D.. Soþely hit es writen in þo boke of Psalmes, His dwellynge bemade inserted in a later hand, P. deserte, ande be þer nonenone it be S.P. to dwelle þerinne: ande, An oþer hafe hise bischopriche. Andeom. S.P. þerfore it bihoues of þise men þat ben
wiþ vs gadurde togider in alle þo tyme þat oure Lorde Iesu Criste kome ande ȝode amonge vs, bigynnande fro þo bapteme of Iohn, vntovnto repeated on fol. 18, C. þo day þat he was vp-taken fro vs, [on]ande C. on S.P. of þis[e] fortoto S.P. be a witnes wiþ us of his uprisinge. Ande þei sette tweyne, Ioseph þat was calledcleped P. Barsabas, andeþat S.P. his kouþe name es Rightwise, ande Mathewe. Ande preyande þei saide, Þow Lorde, þat knewe þo hertes of alle, schewe vs whom þow haueste chosen of þise twootwo oon S.P., to take þe place of þis priuete ande of þis seruice, & þo apostulhed of whiche Iudas es depriued, þat he may dwelle in hise stede. Ande þei gafe hem lottes, ande þo lotte felle vponon S.P. Mathewe, andeCm 2 in the margin, C. he was anoumburde wiþ þo eleuenenleuene S.P. apostuls.
Andeno break in MS. C. Initial and new division, S.P. die penticostes in the margin, XVth cent. hand. II Chap' in a late hand on erasure, S. whanne þo dais of WitsonendayWhyssoneday S.P. wore fulfilled, alle þo disciples weren togader in þat same placein þat stede S.P.. Ande sodenly a sowne kome fro heuen, as hit wore of anom. S.P. hasty komynge spiritte, ande fulfilled alle þo house þore þei wore sittande. Ande diuerse langages appered vnto hem, as it wore fire; ande sat abouenup on or abouen S.P. icheone of hem. Ande alle were fulfilled of þo Holigoste, ande þei biganne to speke in diuerse langages, righte as þo Holigoste gafe to hem to speke. Ande þerþer in a later hand in the margin; nota below it, S. wore þat tyme soþely in Ierusalem dwellande Iwes, religiowse men of alle nacyon þat vndur heuen was. Andeom. S.P. whanne þis voice was made ande þis sownesounde S.P., þer kome togider grete multitude, ande was confused in mynde: ande þeiom. S.P. merueyld gretly, for icheone harde hem spekande in hise langage. Alle soþely þei were amerueyldea wondrud S.P., ande gretely wondurdenmerueyled S.P., ande saiden, Lo, ne benar S.P. noghte alle þise men of Galilee þat speken vponon S.P. þis wise? Ande how es hit þat iche of vs has harde hise langage, in whiche þat wein the margin, 1st corr. S. wore borne inne? Of Parthi, Medy ande Elamyte, ande of hem þat dwellen in Mesapo|tonye,
in þo Iury ande in Capodoche, Pounty ande Assyen, in Frige ande Pamphilein Pam. S.P., Egipte ande in þo parties of Libee þo whiche es aboute Cirynence, ande þo komelynges of Romaynromanye P., ande þo Iewes ande þo procellytes, þo Cretescrite corrected into crete, S. ande þo Arabies, we hafe harde hem spekande inon S.P. oure langage þo grete wondurs ande dedus of God. Alle soþely þei wore astonyed, ande merueilde togader, ande saide, What þinge wol þis be? Oþer soþely lowghne, ande saide, Þise men benare S.P. filled wiþ muste. Ande þanne stode Peter wiþ þo elleuenenleuene S.P. soþely ande saide wiþ highe voyce vnto hem, Men of Iewry, & alle þat dwellen in Ierusalem, þis þinge be knowen vnto ȝowe, ande wiþ ȝoure eres takes andeor S.P. conceyues my wordes. Soþefastly noghte as ȝhe trowe þise men ben drunken, whanne hit es of þo day bot þo þridde houre, Bot þis hitþis S.P. es þat was saide bi þo propheteprophecye S.P. Ioel: Oure Lorde sais þat hit schal be in þo laste dais, I schal ȝete oute of my spiritte vpon alle flesche: ande ȝoure sones ande ȝoure doghters schal pro|phecye, ande ȝoure ȝonge men schal se sightessightes ande om. S.P. ande visiones, ande ȝoure elders schal dreme dremes: ande forsoþe vpon my seruantes (boþe men ande wymmenboþe......wymmen faintly underlined, C. om. S.P.) ande vponcrite corrected into crete, S. my honde|maydens I schal ȝote oute of my spiritte in þoo dais; ande þei schul prophecye. Ande I schal gife wonduregret inserted before wonder, P. in heuen abouen, ande tokens in erþeabouen, expunged, follows, C. þe erþe P. bineþen; blode, ande fire, ande stemeþe myst of smoke S.P. of smeke: þo sonne schal be turned in-to markenesderknesse S.P., ande þo mone into blode, bifore þo grete daye of God ande þo opunschedopun schewed S. opun day (inserted) schewed P. kome: andeverse 21 begins: & alle who so euere clepeþ S.P. hit schal be, alle or iche whoeuer calles þo name of God, he schal be saufe. Ȝhe men of Israel, here ȝhe þise wordes: Iesu of Nazareth, a proued man of God in ȝowe þurghe vertewes ande schewynges ande takens, þat God did bi hym amonges ȝowe, as ȝhe wote; hym, þurghe kownseile endide ande þurghe þo bifore-knowynge of God
þurghe wikked mennes hende bitraid & taken, tourmen|tande to torment & S.P. ȝhe slowe: whomupp wh. S.P. God raysed agayne, þo paynes of helle lowsed ande brokenbrake S.P., so asas om. P. hit was inpossibul þat helle hym schulde holde. (SiþenSiþen (synne S.P.) he...maked underlined, C.P. he heled hit þurghe his myghte, ande alle þat euer was maked.) Dauid soþely sais of hym, I schal puruey ande force oure Lordelouerd with ue crossed out, S. euer bifore me; for he es at my righte side, þat I be noghte stiredmeuyd S.P.. Ande þerfore es my hertte maked brode, ande my tunge mademakeþ S.P. ioye; ande ouer þat (or, þeropon)or þeropon om. S.P. my flesche schal reste in hope, for þow schal noghtenot in 1st corrector's hand in the margin, S. leue my soule in helle, norneþer S.P. þou schalte gife þi saynte to see corupcione. Þo ways of life þow made knowne vntoto S.P. me; þow schalte fulfille me wiþ þi face in ioynge. Ȝhe men ande breþer, if hit beif (crossed out) it be marked to be inverted, S. be it P. leffulle to say vntoto S.P. ȝowe of Dauid þo patriarche, for þat he es deed ande biried, ande hise graue es amonge ȝowe vnto þis daye. Ande þerfore whanne he was a prophete, ande wiste wele þat God þurghe trewetrewþe, S.P. oþeom. S.P. hade sworne vnto hym, þat of þo frute þat oute of hym schulde kome, schulde sitte vpon his sege; seande ande for-spekandebyfore sp. S.P. of þo resurreccione of Criste, for noþer was he forlefteleft S.P. in helle, neom. S.P. neþer his flesche sawe corrupcione (þat es, was neuer filed). Hymhym om. S.P. þis same Iesu God raysed agayn, werof andeande of whom om. S.P. of whom we alle ben witnes. AndeAnde þerfore forsoþe þo highe liftud vppe honde of god þat es þo righte honde of god alþerhyeste C. þerfore þe ryȝt hond of god is hyed S.P. Vulg. Dextera igitur Dei exaltatus. þerfore forsoþe [he was] highe liftud vppe [bi] þo righte honde of GodAnde þerfore forsoþe þo highe liftud vppe honde of god þat es þo righte honde of god alþerhyeste C. þerfore þe ryȝt hond of god is hyed S.P. Vulg. Dextera igitur Dei exaltatus. ande þurghe þo bihetynge of þo Holygoste taken of þo Fadire, he has ȝotted downe þis, þat ȝhe see ande here. Soþely Dauid steghe noghte vppe into heuen: for hymseluen soþely sais, Oure Lorde saide vntoto S.P. my Lorde, Syt þow vponon S.P. my righte honde, þe while þat I putte þine enmyse schamelschameful S.P. of þi fete (þat es, til þat I putte hem vnder
þi fete)gloss underlined, C.S.P. Ande þerfore certaynly wite alle þo folkke of Israel, þat God has maked hym Lorde ande Criste, þis icheom. S.P. same Iesu þat ȝhe crucified. Andeom. S.P. whanne þei herde þis, in hertte þei wore prikked, ande þanne þei saide vnto Peter ande to þoom. P. toþeroþere P. apostuls, Leue men ande breþer, what schal we do? Soþely Peter saide vntoto S.P. hem, Dos penaunce, ande iche of ȝowe be baptised in þo name of oure Lorde Iesu Criste in forgifnes of ȝoure synnes; ande ȝhe schal take þo gifte of þo Holygoste. Vntoþat to S.P. ȝow essoþlyche is S.P. hettebyhote S.P. a bihetynge, ande alsso vntoto S.P. ȝowre childer, ande to alle þat fer be, ande vnto alle þat God oure Lorde haues calledclepyd S.P.. Wiþ many alsso oþer wordes he has wytnessed, ande he amonestedamoneste S.P. hem, ande saide, Bes ȝhe saued frofro twice, P. þis schrewde kynreden. Andeom. P. þoo þat receyued þer sermone wore baptised: ande þat day weren wonnen vntoto S.P. God ande turned abowte þreo þowsande. Ande þei wore þanne lastande in þo apostuls techinge, ande in komunynge of brekinge of brede, ande in preyers. Dredfulle was forsoþe iche sowle: ande many merueyles ande wondurs wore bi þo apostuls in Ierusalem wroghte; ande grete drede was amonges hem alle. Allealso alle S.P. alsso þat trowed weren togader, ande alle þer þinges woren in komun amonges hem; þei solden þer londes, þer catelle ande þer godusande þer godus om. S.P., ande departed hit amonges hem alle, vntoto S.P. euerichone efterafter þt S.P. he hade nede. Ande iche day þei contynued lastande in þo temple togader, ande abowte howses (þat es, vntoto S.P. þo puple þat þer kome of diuerse places)gloss underlined, S.P. þei brake þe brede (þat es, Goddes worde)gloss underlined, S.P., [ande] þei token mete wiþ ioye ande sympulnes of hertte, þankande God, ande hafande grace vntoto S.P. alle folke. Ande oure Lorde [soþly maked more þe whiche schulde beschulde be in marg. contemporary hand, S. saued iche day in hym|seluen]Thus in S.P. hit made more epistola sequitur, C..
PeterCm 3m in a later hand, in marg., C. iii chape in a xvith century hand, S. soþely ande saynte John ȝoden into þo temple atte þo houre of none-preyer. Ande a man þat was crokud fro
his moder wombe (þat es, was borne crokud)gloss expunged, S. om. P. [was borne, ande] icheþat i. C. & eche S.P. day hise frendes sette hym atte þo temple-dore þat was Speciosa, þer forto begge almes of hem þat ȝode in ande oute of þo temple. He þis whan he sawe Peter ande Ioon begynne to enter into þo temple, he preide hem of þer almes. Ande Peter wiþ Ioon bihelde vntoto S.P. hym, ande saide, Loke vpon vs. Ande he bihelde vpon hem, and trowed sum|whate to haue of hem. And þanne Peter soþely saide, Golde ande syluer haue I none (þat es to say, noþer)gloss expunged, S. om. P.; bot soþely þatom. P. þat I haue Iþat I S.P. gife vntoom. S.P. þe. In þo name of Iesu Criste of Nazareth, rise ande go; ande toke hise righte honde, ande liftererid S.P. hym vppe: & alssone wore hise lymes made hole ande sadde. Ande he stode vppe ande ȝode his way, worschipande ande þankande God. [& alle þe puple sawe hym walkande & worschipande God]S.P.: soþely [wel]whyleste C. wel S.P. men hym knewe, þat hit was he þat satte at þo temple-dore fortoto S.P. asche mennes almes: ande of hym þei wore merueyled ande gretely awonderdewondrud S.P. how hit so bifelle vntoom. S.P. hym. Ande soþely whanne þei [sawe]schulde take C. sawe S.P. Vulg. cum teneret autem. Peter ande Iohn, alle þo puple kome rennande vntoto S.P. hem to Salomons porte, wondurande vponon S.P. hem ande biholdandeande biholdande om. S.P.. Ande Peter whanne he saweSoþly whan Petir saw S.P. þat, he saide vntoto S.P. þo folke, Men of Israel, whi wonduren ȝhe here-oponnehere onne S.P., ande whi biholde ȝhe vs so, as we þurghe oure vertewe or oure power hafe made hym þis to go? Abrahams God ande Isaaks God ande Iacobs God ande ȝoure faders God haues glorified hise sone Iesu; þo whiche forsoþe ȝhe bitraide ande denied bifore þo face of Pilate, demande hym vntoto S.P. þo deþe. Ȝhe, forsoþesoþly S.P., þo holy ande þo rightwise man ȝhe denied, ande& ȝe S.P. asched to be gifen vntoto S.P. ȝowe aa man þat was, om. S.P. man þat was a mansleare; soþefastelysoþly S.P. þo maker of life ȝhe slowe, þatwhom S.P. God raysed frofro deþe om. S.P. deþe vntoto S.P. life, whos wytnes we ben.
Ande in þo faiþe of hise name hym þis þat ȝhe see ande knowe, he haues confermed ande helud: þo name of hym, ande þo faiþe þat es bi hym gafe þis man fully his hele bifore alle ȝoure sighte. Ande nowe, breþer, I wote þat þurghe vnknowynge ȝhe hit did, ande so did ȝoure princes. Þo þinges soþely þat God spake bifore þurghe þo mowþe of alle þo prophetes, þat his Criste schulde suffure, þus he fulfilled hit. Dos penawnce þerfore, ande bes turned, þat ȝowre synnes be done away, whanne þo tymes schul kome of re|freschinge fro þo siȝte of God, andedie trenete (?), in the margin in a XVIth cent. hand. Below it peuyt in the same hand as previous insertions, S. whanne he schal sende hym þat es preched vnto ȝowe, Iesu Criste: þo whiche schal dwelle in heuen vnto þo tyme of restorynge of alle þat God has spoken þurgheby S.P. þo mowþe of his sayntes fro þo bigyn|nynge of þo worlde ande þurgheby S.P. hise prophetes. Moyses soþely saide, God oure Lordeom. S.P. schal raise vntoto S.P. vs a prophete of oureȝoure S. breþere; ȝhe schal here hym as meseluen (þat es, as ȝhe done me) anentes alle þinges þat he schal speke vnto ȝowe. Ande soþely hit schal be, þat iche sowle þat heres noghte þoþat S. prophete, schalhe schal S.P. be þutte oute of þo puple & oute of hise termes. Ande alle þo prophetes fro Samuel ande so forþer|more, þat spaken, schewed þise dais. Ande ȝhe soþely ben prophetes sones ande of þo testamente þat God disposed ande ordeynde to oureȝoure S. faders, sayande vntoto S.P. Abraham, In þi sede schal be blessed alle þo meyne of erþe. To ȝow firste God raysedreysynge S.P. his sone, [ande] sende hym blessande ȝowe, þat iche|one schulde turne hym from þo way of his wikkednes.
AsCm4m in the margin, C.S.P. þei stoden ande spaken vntoto S.P. þe puple, þer kome fallande vntoto S.P. hem prestes ande maisters of þo temple andeom. P. Saduceys (þat wore relygyouse men)gloss underlined in S.P., [ande] maden grete sorowe þat þei tawghtenþt þei tauȝte repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S. þo puple ande schewed in Iesu þo risinge of deþe; ande layden hondeshond S.P. vpon hem, ande putte hem in holde vnto þo toþer daye: þanne soþely hit was
nyghte. Many of hemhom (?) C. forsoþe troweden þat herden Goddes worde; ande was þo noumbre of men fiue þowsande. Þo toþerþt oþer S.P. day hit felle þat þer schulde be gadired togider þer princes, þo olde men, ande þo wise of Ierusalem, ande Annas þo prince of prestes, ande Cayphas, ande Iohn, ande Aly|sawndure, ande als many as wore of þe presteshere D begins. kinreden. Ande [þei] put hem ymyddesin þe myddel of S.P.D. hem alle, ande asched hem, In whatte vertewe & in whos name did ȝhe þise þinges? Thanne Peter, fulfilled of þo Holygoste, saide vntoto S.P.D. hem, Princes ofof þe P. puple ande olde men, heresȝee follows, S.P.D. ande vndur|stondesande vndurstondes om. S.P.D.. If we to daye ben demed in þo gode dede of þis seke man, in þo whiche he þisom. S.P.D. es made saufe, knowne þinge be hit vntoto S.P.D. ȝoweȝow alle S.P.D., ande to alle þo folke of Israel: for in þo name of Iesu Criste of Nazareth, þe whiche ȝhe crucified, whom God raysed agayn fro deþe, inande in the text with in in the margin, C. in S.P.D. þat he þis stondes bifore ȝow hole. He þis Ihesus es þo stone þat of ȝowe was re|proued in howsinge, þat es nowe made þo heued kornerstone. Ande þer es no hele in any oþer. Nor soþely oþer name vnder heuen es none gifen vntoto S.P.D. men, in whiche we maye ande bihoues be saued. Andeom. S.P.D. whanne þe men sawe ande bihelde þo stedfastnes offe Peter ande Iohn, ande was founden þat þei wore men unletterde ande ideotes, þei were amer|ueyled, ande knew þem, þat þei hade ben wiþ Iesu. Ande þei sawe þo man stondande wiþ hem þat was helednota in the margin, S.; ande no þinge þei myghte agaynsaye. Andeom. S.P.D. þei komanded hem fortoto S.P.D. gogo forþ S.P.D. oute of þo kownseyl, ande þei kownseilde togider, ande saide, What schal we do vntoto S.P.D. þise men? For als mykel soþely as a knowne token ande merueyl es done þurghe hem, knowne vntoto S.P.D. alle þo folkke þat dwellen in Ierusalem, ande we maye noghte denye hit. Bot þat hit be no more 15pupplisched ne1515-15 om. S.P.D. A cross in the margin, C. spoken amonge þo folkke, þrete we hem, þat þei in þat name speke nomore vntoto S.P.D. any man. Ande þei calledcleped S.P.D. hem 15unto hem1515-15 om. S.P.D. A cross in the margin, C., ande komawnded hemom. S.P.D.
þat þei schulde nomore so speke, [ne]ne S.P.D. & C. teche onin S.P. no wise in Ihesu name. Peter soþely ande Iohn ansuered and saide vntoto S.P.D. hem, If hit isis in the margin, C. riȝtewise in þo sighte of God soner to here ȝowe þan God, telle vs; þat we hafe harde ande sene, we may noghte bot we hit speke. Ande þei lefte hem wiþ many þretynges, dredande þo puple. No rightwise cause myghte þei finde hem forto punische, for alle spake hit ande made hit clere ande knowne, þat þinge þat bi hem was done, of þat þinge þat bifelle. Þat man was of elde fourety ȝhere ande twooom. S.P.D. Vulg. Annorum enim erat amplius quadraginta homo. more, whanne þis token ande þis hele was. Andeom. S.P.D. Vulg. Annorum enim erat amplius quadraginta homo. whanne þei wore laten oute of þoþat S.P.D. kownseile to wende forþe þer way, þei komen vntoto S.P.D. þer breþer þat wore conuerted, ande broghte hem worde, what kynnesmanere S.P.D. þingesþing S.P.D. þo princes of prestes ande þo olde men hade vnto hem saideseyd to hem S.P.D.. Whanne þei hit harde, þei liftehyed S.P.D. vppe þer voyce togider alle to Godto god alle togydere S.P.D., ande saide, Lorde, þow þat madeste heuen ande erþe, þe see ande alle þat in hem areben S.P. buþ D.: þat þurghe þo Holigoste, bi þoom. S.P.D. Vulg. Annorum enim erat amplius quadraginta homo. mowþe of oure fadire Dauid, þi childeþi childe om. P. to þi children S.D, with to...ren dotted out in darker ink, S. Vulg. per os patris nostri David, pueri tui., þow saideste, Whi grucched þo folke, ande þo puple þoghte vayn þinges? Kenges of erþe stoden togider, ande princes komen alle in one agayns oure Lorde ande agayns hise Criste: þei komen togider soþely in þis cyte agaynes þiþe S.P.D. holy childe Iesu, þat þow ennoyntedeste, Herowde ande Pounce Pilate wiþ menygentyles S.P.; in S in late hand on erasure. ande folke of Israel, to do þat þi honde ande þi cownseile discryueddescryueþ S. destriueþ P. (20þat es, ordeynde) to be done2020-20 underlined in S.. Ande nowe, Lorde, biholde vntoto S.P.D. þer þretynges, ande grawnte þi seruantes wiþ alle faiþefulnes to speke þi worde, in þat þow putte forþe þi honde; heleto helynges S.P.D., merueiles& m. S.P.D. ande wondures toom. S.P.D. be done forby S.P.D. þo holy name of þi sone Iesu. Ande whanne þei hade
preyde, þo place þat þei wore inne was stiredmeuyd S.P.D., ande alle wore fulfilled ofwiþ S.P.D. þe Holygoste. Þei& þei S.P.D. spaken þanne Goddes wordeþe word of god S.P.D. wiþ faiþfulnes. O hertte ande o soule (5þat es, o wille) hade alle þat puple þat trowedentrowen P. togider55-5 underlined in S.P.. Ne none of hem þat any þinge hade saide hitþt it S.P.D. was his, bot woreþei were S.P.D. in comun vntoto S.P.D. hem alle. Ande wiþ grete vertewe þo apostul[s]apostuls S.P.D. bare witnes of þoom. S.P.D. vprisinge of oure Lorde Iesu Criste: ande grete grace was in hem alle. Ne was þer none nedy amonges hem: als many possessioners as þer wore of houses or of feldes solden hem, ande broghte þo price of hem þat þei solde, ande putte hit bifore þo fete of þo apostuls: [& soþly it was departed to ichone after þei had nede. Ioseph, þat hade his sorname knowen of þe apostuls]thus in S.P.D. om. C., BarsabasBarnabas S.P.D.—þat bitokens, sone of comforþe—he hade a felde, ande solde hit, ande broghte þo price, ande laide bifore þo apostulspostuls P. feteCapitulum quintum follows; Cm 5 in the margin, C. V chape on erasure, S..
Soþely a man þat hattehyȝte S.P.D. Ananyas, ande hise wife Saphira, solden a feldea felde repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S., and wiþ þoom. P. konseile of hise wife wiþhelde a party of þo price, ande þo remnante broghte ande layde bifore þo apostulspostuls S. fete. Ande Peter saide to hym, Anany, whi tempted Sathanas þi herte, þow fortoto S.P.D. lyghe vntoto S.P.D. þo Holigoste, ande forto defraude of þo price of þo felde? Ne was hit dwellande vntoto S.P.D. þiseluen, ande þo sale was in þine owne power? Whi puttest þou þis dede in þine hertte? þow ne haues noghte lyed to manmen S.P. bot to GodThus the order of S.P.D. to god bot to man C.. Soþely whanne Ananyas hade harde þise wordes, he felle downe & dyed: ande grete drede was þer þanne amonge alle þat harde þeroffe. Thanne ȝonge men rosreysen S.P., in S on erasure, 1st corrector's hand. vppe, ande bare hym away ande biried hym. Efter-worde, as hit were þo space of þre houres, hise wife enterd inne, ande wiste not what was done. Ande soþely Peter ansuered vntoto S.P.D. hire, Say me, þow
womman, solde ȝhe þo felde offor S.P.D. þat price? Ande scheȝhe S.P. saide, Ȝhe, of þat price. Ande soþely Peter saide vntoto S.P.D. hire, Wharto þoghte ȝhe hit acordande to ȝowe fortoto S.P.D. tempte þo Holygoste of God? Loo þo fete of hem þat biried þine howsebande at þo dore, ande schal bere forþe þe. Andeom. S.P.D. alsfaste scheȝhe S.P. felle downe atte hise fete ande dyed: þo ȝonge men enterd inne ande fonde hire dead, ande toke hire vppe, ande biriedbeyried P. hire biside hire husbande. Ande þanne þer was grete drede in alle holy chirche, ande in alle þat hit harde. Binota in the margin, S. þo hondes soþely of þo apostuls were done many tokens ande merueyls in þo folke; ande þei wore alle togider in Salomons porte. Soþely of alle þo toþer none durste ioyn hem vnto hem, bot myche þo puple hem praysed. Þo multi|tude of hem þat preydetrowed S.P.D. Vulg. credentium in Domino multitudo. wexe euer more ande more, boþe of men ande wymmen; so þat þei hade oute þoof þo S.P. seke into þe feldesstretis S.P.D. ande laide hem in þer couches ande in þer beddes in þo felde, þat whanne Peter kome, at þo leste his schadowe myghte ouer-schineouerschadwe S.P, with adw on erasure in S. iche of hem, ande so be deliuerde of þer sekenes. Soþely þo multitude of neghbursVulg. multitudo vicinarum civitatum. of þo cite runnen togider in Ierusalem, berande þe seke, ande hem þat wore traueiled wiþ vnclene spirittes, þo whiche alle wore helud. Thanne soþely þo prince of prestesprestes in the margin, 1st corr. S. rose vppe, ande alle þat wiþ hem wore, þo whiche es heresie of Saduceys (þat wore religiowse)gloss underlined, S.P., ande wore fulfilled of enuy ande trecchery, ande layde hondes vpon þo apostuls, ande putte hem intoin S.P.D. a komun holde þat opunly was knowne. Ande soþely onnein S.P.D. þo nyghte one of Goddes awngels opunde þo ȝhates of þo prisone, ande ledde hem oute, ande saide, Gos, ande stondes in þo temple, ande spekes vntoto S.P.D. þo puple alle þo wordes of þis life. Andeom. S.D. whanne þei hade herde þis, þei enterde in þo mornyngemorwynge P. into þo temple, ande tawghte. Whanne þo prince of prestes harde þis, ande þooþei S.P. þat wore wiþ hym, þei calledcleped S.P.D.
togider a konseile, ande alle þo eldeste men of þo sons of Israel, ande sende vntoto S.P.D. þo prisone to bringe þo apostulspostuls S.P.D. to hem. Ande whanne þo mynistres soþely kome ande opunde þo prisone, þei fonde hem noghte. Bot turned agayne ande tolde þo prince how þat hit was, ande saide, Forsoþe þo prisone we fonde faste sparredclosed S.P.D. as hit was lefte, ande þo kepars stondinge at þo ȝhates: þei opunde þo prisone, ande no man fonde we þerinne. Whanne þo maistres of þo temple ande þo princesprynce S.P.D. ofof þe S.P.D. prestes herde þise wordes, þei vm|þoghtenbyþouȝte S.P.D. hem, ande spake togider what was fortoto S.P.D. do of hem. Ande þoþer S.P. whiles þer kome one ande broghte worde vntoto S.P.D. hem, how þoo men þat þei putte in prisone ben in þo temple, ande 8stonden ande techen88-8 stondynge & techynge S.P. stondynge & teche D. þo puple. Thanne ȝode þo mayster wiþ his mynistres, ande ladde hem forþe wiþ|outen strenkþe: þei dredde þo puple, 9in auenture þat99-9 lest S.P.D. þei wolde stone hem. Ande whanne þei hade ledde hem forþe, þei toke hem in aom. S.P. kownseyl. Ande þo prince of prestes asched hem, ande saide, Wiþ comandmente wei comaundede P., in S. on erasure with nota in the margin. bid ȝowe, þat ȝhe ne teche noghte in þis name. Ande lo, ȝhe hafe fulfilled Ierusalem wiþ ȝoure techinge, ande ȝhe wil putte vpon vs þo blode of þis man (þat es, þo deþe of Criste). 12Peter ande þo apostuls1212-12 Petur & Ion S.P. ansuerde ande saide, More hitom. S.P.D. bihoues vsus behueþ S.P.D. toom. S.P.D. be buxum vntoto S.P.D. God þanne to menman S.P.D.. God of ȝourethe ȝ erased in S. oure P. faders raised Iesu vntoto S.P.D. lyfe, whom þat ȝhe slowen, hongande hym vpon a crosse. Hym has God highed, ande made hym a prince ande sauyoure þurghe his righte honde, to gife penaunce vntoto S.P.D. hem of Israel, ande forgifnes of þer synnes. Ande we ben witneswitnessis S.P.D. of þise wordes; ande þo Holygoste whom God haues gifen vntoto S.P.D. alle þatþt
byleueþ or beþ buxom to hym S.P.D. Vulg. omnibus obedientibus sibi. to hym ben buxum. Whanne þat þei harde þis, þei ymagynde ande þoȝte in þer hertes to slee hem. Ande soþely a Pharisew ros vp in þo kownseile,
whos name was Gamaliel, a doctour of þo lawe, worschipfuland (om. S) a w. man S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. allealle þe puple S.P.D. Vulg. homines. folke. He comanded þat þe apostuls schulde gangegoo S.P. oute a lytel, ande saide þanne vntoto S.P.D. hem þat wore gadurd þere, Men of Israel, take hede vntoto S.P.D. ȝowreseluen, of þise men whatte ȝhe þinke to do. Bifore þise dais Theodas saide þat he was hymseluen grete; vntoto SP. whom assented folke, þo noumbre of men abouten foure hundreþehundrud S.P.D.: þo whiche was slayne; ande alle þat to hym trowed wore disparpulde (þat es, woreom. D.S.P. dispair follows, dotted out, C. spred obrodethe r has a mark of abbreviation for e, C. andeande es C. destroide) andees follows, S.P.C.D. worþedworþe S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. noghte. After hym was þer an-oþer, Iudas of Galilee, in þo dais of profesciontouched up in a later hand, C., ande myche puple he efter hym turned: and he·nd h· on erasure in a later hand, C. perischedpreched D.; and als many as vnto hym assentedas sentyd to hym S.P.D. wore sparpulde o-brode. Ande nowe þerfore I say vnto ȝowe, Departes away fro þise men, ande suffers hem: for if þis conseile ande þis dede þat þei do be of man, hit schal be vndone & worþe vntoto S.P.D. noghte: ande soþely if hit be of God, ȝhe schul noghte mowe vndo hem, bot suffure hem, in auenture þat ȝhe be not fownden fightande agayn God. Forsoþe þei assented, ande calledclepid S.P. þo apostulspostuls S.D. vntoto S.P.D. hem& beden hem follows here, P. & beten hem in the margin, 1st corrector's hand, S., ande komawnded hem, þatom. S.P.D. þei schulde nomore speke in Iesu name, ande lete hem wende þer way. Ande þei forsoþe ȝode ioyande oute of þo sighte of þo cownseile, for þat þei wore made worþi to suffur strife andestrife ande om. S.P. In S there is, however, an erasure of circa 4 letters after suffre. schame for þo name of Iesu. Soþely euery day in þo temple & abowte howses þei cessed noghte of techinge ande prechinge of Iesu CristeEpistola sequitur follows, C..
SoþelyCm 6 in the margin, C. VI Chap' in a late XVIth century hand, S. in þo dais gretely wexe þo noumbure of þer disciples, ande was made a murmourmuruil (?) D. ande a grucchinge of þo Grekes agaynes hem of Ebrewe, for þat þer widowes wore
despiced in þo iche daye seruice. Ande þannesoþly S.P.D. calledþei cleped S.P. togider twelueof hem follows, S.P.D. þo nowmbur offe þo apostuls ande þo disciplesande þo disciples om. S.P.D. Vulg. Convocantes autem duodecim multitu|dinem discipulorum., ande saide þus vntoto S.P.D. hem, It es noghte rightelefful S.P.D. þat we schul leue þo worde of Godof god in the margin, C. ande serue vntoto S.P.D. þo bordes (þat es, atte þo mete). Ande þerfore lokes amonge ȝowe, breþer, seuen gode men offe testymony ande wytnes, þo whiche ben ful of þo Holigoste ande wisdome, whom we schul ordeyne forto do þis bisines ande þis warke. For we wole holde vs in preyer ande in Goddes worde. Ande þis worde was plesingeplesaunt S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. alle þo multitude, ande gladde were [þei] þer-offe. Ande þei ches Steuen, a man fulle of þo Holigoste ande trewe in þo faiþe, ande Philip, ande Prochorum, ande Nichanore, ande Tymothewetymome S.P.D., ande Pernyenamparmanam S.P.D., ande Nicholas þat was komen fro Antiochen; þise þei sette bifore þo sighte of þo apostuls, & made þer preyers, ande laide alle 12þer hende vpon hem1212-12 upon hem (here D) hond S.P.D.. Ande Goddes worde wexe; ande gretely was þo nowmbur of disciples waxen in Ierusalem. Grete company alsso of prestes bowden vntoto S.P.D. þe faiþe. Steuen, gostelysoþly S.P.D. fulle of grace ande strenkþe, did many merueyles ande wondurs amonge þo puple. Summe soþely of þo synagoge risenros S.P.D. vppe, þat waswere S.P.D. of Lybertynes, ande of Sirenences, ande of Alysawndur, ande of hem þat wore of Cilyce ande of Asye, disputande wiþ Steuen. Ande þei myghte noghte wiþstonde his wytte ande þo spiritte þat wiþinne hym spake. Thanne sende þei wiþ tresone men þat schulde saye, 17þat þei harde hym saye1717-17 om. S.P.D. wordes of blaspheme of Moyses & of God. Þei stired andestired ande om. S.P.D. moued alsso þo puple, & þo olde men, ande þo wise, ande ran togider, ande token hym, ande ledden hym intointo a S.P.D. kownseyl; ande setteþei sette S.P.D. agayns hym þo fals witnes, sayande, Þis man cesses noghte to speke wordes agayne holy place ande þo lawe: soþely we harde
hym saye, þat he þis Iesus of Nazareth schal destroye þis place, ande schal turne oure laweslawe & tradicyons S.P.D. þat Moyses gafe vntoom. S.P.D. VS. Ande þei bihelde vpon hym alle þat in þo konseyl satte; þei sawe hise face as hit wore þe face of an awngel amonges hemamonges hem om. S.P.D. Epistola follows, C..
ÞoCm vii in the margin, C. a S.P. princeprinces C. of þo prestes saide vntoto S.P.D. Steuen, Es þis þinge soþe 8þat þise men sayne88-8 om. S.P.D.? Ande he 8ansuered ande88-8 om. S.P.D. saide, ȜheChapter VII. begins here with new paragraph and initial, S.P.D. men, mymy dotted out, S. om. P. breþer ande faders, heres ande vndurstondes. God of ioye appered vntoto S.P.D. Abraham oureȝoure C.D. fadire, whanne he was in Mesapotany, bifore þat he schulde dye in Charre, ande saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, Gange oute of þi londe, ande oute of þi knowynge, ande kome into þat londe þat I schal schewe vntoom. S.P.D. þe. Thanneþan he S.P.; in S. on erasure; he om. D. wente he oute of þo londe of Caldey, ande dwelled in Charram: ande þeþenþenne S.D. þanne P., efterwhan follows S.P.D. his fader was deade, he kome into þis londe, 8ande caried hise fader hider88-8 om. S.P.D., wherein whuche S.P.D. þat ȝhehe S.P.D. dwelle nowe. Ande he gafe hym þerinne none heritage, norne S.P.D. o fote of erthe, andein S.P.D. he bihette forto gife hit vntoom. S.P.D. hym intoin S.P.D. hiseom. S.P.D. possessione, ande tilto S.P.D. hise sede efter hym, whanne þat he hade no sone. Soþely God saidespak S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. hym, þat hise sede schal hafe a wonynge [in]S.P.D. ande C. anoþer londe, ande heþei P, in a later hand on erasure, S. schal make hem subgette to hiseher P, ·er on erasure, S. service, ande yuel heþei P, in a later hand on erasure, S. schal lede hem foure hundreþe ȝhereand xxx follows, S.P.D. Vulg. et servituti eos subjicient, et male tractabunt eos annis quadringentis.. Ande [þat folk to whom þei schal serue I schal iwge, sais God]thus in P, on erasure in 1st corrector's hand, S. I schal schewe, saide God, to what folke þei schul serue vnto C.D. Vulg. et gentem cui servierint, judicabo ego, dixit Dominus.; ande efter þat þei schul wende heþenþenne S.P.D. ande serue me in þis place. Ande he gafe vntoto S.P.D. hym þo testamente of circum|sicyon: ande so he gate Isaac, ande circumsiced hym þo eghtodeyȝteþe S.P.D. daye; and Isaac Iacob, ande Iacob þo twelue
patriarches. Ande þo patriarches haden enuye vnto Ioseph, ande solde hym into Egipte: ande Godin a later hand in the margin, S. om. P. was wiþ hym, ande hym delyuerde of alle hise tribulaciones, ande gafe hym grace ande wisdome in Pharaos sighte, þo kenge of Egipte; ande made hym guuernoure ande prouoste ouer Egipte ande ouer alle hise howse. Bot soþely þer kome þanne aan S.P. hungur in alle Egipte ande Canaan [ande]S.P.D. grete tribulacyone; ande ȝoure fadres fonde no mete. Whanne Iacob harde þat whete was in Egipte, he sende firste oure fadres. Ande þein þe S.P.D. secunde sonde heIoseph S.P.D. was knowen, Ioseph, of hise breþer, ande he schewed his kynreden vnto Pharao. Ande Ioseph sende efter his fader, ande alle hise knowynge. Ande Iacob so kome into Egipte; ande he es deade, ande oure fadres; ande þei ben translated into Sichem, ande putte in þoom. S.P.D. sepulcur þat Abraham boghte wiþ price of siluer of þo sons of Emor, Sychem sons. Soþely whanne þo tyme of biheste come nerehandenyȝhonde S.P.D., þat God tolde vntoto S.P.D. Abraham, þo puple wexe ande multiplied in Egipte, vntoto S.P.D. þo tyme þat an-oþer kenge was þerinnein egypte S.P.D., þat& þt S.P.D. knewe noghte Ioseph. He þis ouerȝode oure kynreden, ande tourmented oure fadres, ande ordeynde þat of oure ȝonge childer þat were þanne borne, þono S.P.D. knaue|childe schulde not not on erasure in a different hand, C. om. S.P.D. life. Þo same tyme was Moises borne, & plesinge vnto God; þo whiche þree moneþes was norysched& he was nurschyd þre monþes S.P.D. in hise owne fader howse: ande soþely he was putte forþe into þo flode, ande Pharaos doghter toke hym vppe, ande& sche S.D. & ȝhe P. norysched hym as hit wore hire sone. Ande Moyses was lernedtauȝte S.P.D. of alle þo witte of Egipte; ande he was myghty in wordes ande in hise dedes. Whanne hise tyme was fulfilled vntoto S.P.D. fourtyþritty S.P.D. Vulg. quadraginta. ȝhere, hit felle in hise hertte þat he wolde visite hise frendes, hise breþerþe children follows, S.P. of Israel. Ande whanne þatom. P. he sawe one of hise kynne suffer grete wronge, he venged hym, ande wreked hym þat wronge suffurde, ande smote hym offe
Egipte: he wende hise breþer schulde haue vndurstonden, þat God þurghe hise hende schulde gife hele vntoto S.P.D. hem; ande þei vnderstodevndirstonde with n expunged, S. hit noghte. Soþely þo secunde daye he appered vntoto S.P.D. hem striuande, ande reconseilde hem into pees, ande sayde, Men, ȝhe ben breþer; wharto noys eyþer of ȝowe oþer? Soþely he þat did þe wronge vntoto S.P.D. hise broþer, putte hym agayne, and saide, Who ordeynde þe prince or iustice ouer vs? ÞowWer precedes, P. wer þt in the margin, 1st corr. S. wilte noghteom. P. crossed out, S. slee me, as þow ȝisterday dideste þo man of Egipte? Atte þis worde Moises fledde, ande was made a komelynge in þo lande of Madian, where he gate twey sons. Ande whanne fourty ȝhere wore ful|filled, an awngel appered vntoto S.P.D. hym in þo deserte of mounte Synaye in flaumbe of fire in þo buske. Moyses, whanne he hit sawe, of þat sighte he was awondurde: ande as he ȝode nerre forto biholde þerto, þo voyce of God spake vntoto S.P.D. hym ande saide, I am þo God of þi fadres, God of Abraham, ofgod of S.P.D. Isaac ande ofgod of S.P.D. Iacob. Moyses þanne trembulde ande durste nomore biholde. God soþely saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, Lowselouse with the u crossed out, S. þoþy P.D. schone of þi fete: þo place es holy þat þou stondes ynne. Biholdande I sawe þo affliccione of my folke þat es in Egipte, ande þaire sorowynge I harde, ande I kome downe hem to delyuer: ande kome nowe, ande I schal sende þe into Egipte. Þis Moises whom þei denyed, ande saide, Who ordeynde þe prince ande domes-man ouer vs? hym God sende prince ande byare wiþ þo awngel honde þat in þo buske appered vntoto S.P.D. hym. He þis ledde hem oute, doande merueyles ande wondurs in þo lande of Egipte, ande in þo Rede See, ande in deserte fourty ȝhere. Þis es Moises, þe whiche saide hitom. S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. þo childer of Israel, A prophete vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe God schal raise of ȝoure owne breþeren, ande loke ȝhe here hym reghte as ȝhe do me. He þis hit es þat was in þo chirche in wilder|nes wiþ þo awngel þat spake vntoto S.P.D. hym in þo mownte of Synay, ande with oure fadires: þo whiche toke þo wordes offe life to gife vntoom. S.P.D. vs: to whom oure faders wolden noghte
bowe, bot putte agayne [hym]hym P, in the margin, 1st corr. S., ande wore turned agayne in þer hertes vntoin to S.P.D. Egipte, sayand vntoto S.P.D. Aaron, Make vs goddes þat may go bifore vs: hesoþly S.P.D. þis Moyses þat ledde vs oute of þo londe of Egipte, we woten noghte what es fallen vnto hym. Ande in þo dais þei made a kalfe, ande offurdeoffre S.P. offeringes to þo symulacre (þat es, vntoom. S.P.D. þo mawmete). Ande þei made ioye in þo warkewerkes S.P.D. of þer hende. Soþely God conuerted ande toke hem to serue to þo kengedome of heuen: as hit esin the margin, C. writen in þo boke of þo prophetes, Þowþow dotted out with wher ȝe in the margin, 1st corr. S. wher ȝe P. Vulg. numquid victimas et hostias obtulistis mihi., meny of Israel, sacrificesacrifices P; last s added in a later hand, S. noror S.P. offuringes offurde ȝhe nonecrossed out, S; om. P. vntoto S.P.D. me fourty ȝere in deserte. Ande ȝhe toke þo dwellynge-stede of Meloch ande þo sterne of ȝoure god Rempha, þat wore figures þat ȝhe made forto worschippe. Ande I schal transferre ȝowe into Babilonyfor þis þing follows, P, in the margin, 1st corr. S.. Þo tabernacle oftestamente follows, C. testimony was to ȝoure fadire[s]wiþ ȝoure fadrus D; wiþ oure fadires S.P. in deserte, [as]S.P.D.; of C. God ordeynde, spekande vntoto S.P.D. Moises, þatom. S.P.D. he schulde make hit efter þo schappe of þat þat he sawe. Þe whiche þei ledden in, [ande] oure faders [wiþ Iesu broghten] into þo possession of gentiles, þo whiche God putte away fro þo face of oureȝoure D; oure with the ȝ erased, S. faders vntoto S.P.D. þo dais of Dauid, þo whiche fonde grace bifore God, ande asched pat he myghte finde a tabernacle vntoto S.P.D. God of Iacob. Salomon soþely made hym ana S.P.D. howse; bot he þat es alþerhighestemost h. S.P.D. dwelles noghte in þinges þat ben made wiþ hende; as he bihe bi om. S.P.D. þo prophete sais, Heuen es vntoto S.P.D. me a sege, erþe soþely a stool vntoto S.P.D. my fete: what howse schulȝhe schul C; schulde S.P.D. ȝheom. S.P.D. make to me? saisoure louerd seyþ S.P.D. oure Lorde, or whiche es þo place þat I schal reste inne? Ne made noghte my hende alle þise þinges? ,Harde|frownted ande vncircumsised hertes ande eares, euer ȝhe han wiþstonden þo Holygoste: so as ȝoure faders did, so do ȝhe.
For ȝoure fadirs, ne wore þei noghte pursewars of prophetes? ande þei slowe hem þat schewed bifore ofof om. P. þe komynge of þis rightwise man, of whom ȝe wore traytures ande manslears: ȝe þat token þo lawe þat schulde haue disposed ȝow vntoto S.P.D. awngels, ande ȝhe kepped hit noghte. Andeom. S.P.D. whanne þei harden þis, þei saiden in þer hertes, ande gnaisted vponon S.P.D. hym wiþ þer teþe. So whanne Stheuen was ful of þo Holigoste, he bihelde vppe into heuen ande sawe þo ioye of God, ande Iesu stondande atte þo righte side of his fadire, ande saide, Lo, I see heuensheuene S.P.D. opun, ande mannes sone stondande at þo righte side of þe vertewe of God. Þei crieden þanne allealle þanne P. lowdelonge S.P.D. togider, 9ande stopped þer eres, ande þei alle to|gider did lettynge vnto hym99-9 om. S.P.D.; ande þanneom. S.P.D. þei cacchedladde S.P.D. hym oute of þo cytee, ande stoned hym: ande þe twoþe two crossed out S. om. P. falsse wytneswytnessis S.P.D. did of hise cloþes biside þe fete of þo ȝonge man þat was calledcleped SPD. Saule. Ande þ[e]iþoi C. stoned Steuen, þat calledcleped SPD., ande saide, IesuLord Iesu S.P.D., receyue my spiritte; ande kneled downe vponon S.P.D. hise knees, ande cried wiþ a lowdelonge S.P.D. voyce, & saisseyde S.P.D., Lorde, sette noghte þis synne agaynes hemfor þei knoweþ not what þei doþ follows, P, in the margin, 1st corr. S.. Ande whanne he hade saide þat, he rested hym in God, ande gafe vntoto S.P.D. heuen his goste. Soþely Saule was assentande vntoto S.P.D. his deþe.
SoþelyCm 8 on erasure in the margin, C. þe viii chape in a late XVIth century hand, S. þat daye was grete persecucione done in holy chirche þat was atte Ierusalem; ande alle þei wore dis|parpulde ande wente isonderom. S.P.D. biinto alle þe kyngdom S.P.D. þo kendames of Iurye ande Samary, outtaken þo apostuls þat dwelled stille in Ierusalem. Menbut precedes in a late hand, P. ful dredfulle biried saynte Steuen, ande made grete wepinge ande sorowe ouer hym. Saule forsoþe wastud holi chirche ande destroyde hitom. S.P.D., ande ȝode into howses, ande drowe oute men ande wymmen, ande putte hem into holdeholdes S.P.D.. Ande þei þerfore þat wore spredde obrode ȝode
prechande þo gospelle of God, how he was Goddes sone. Philippe ȝode into þo cyte of Samarye, ande preched Criste vntoto S.P.D. hem. Þo folke soþely gafe gode hede vntoto S.P.D. þo wordes þat Philippe saide, herande hym holly togider ande alle wiþ o wille, ande bihelde vntoto S.P.D. þo wonderswordus S.P. ande tokens whiche þat he wroghte. Many soþely of hem þat haden in hem yuel spirittes cryed wiþ grete voyce andesaid follows, expunged, C. ȝode awaye oute of hem. Many þat haden þo palsy, ande alsso þat woren crokude, woren maked alle hole. Ande þerforeþat follows, P. was þer maked grete ioye in þat cite. Symon soþely Magussymon magus repeated in marg., 1st corr. S., þat was bifore in þat cite, made hymseluenhym S.P. grete as aom. S.P. god, ande many folke of Samarye hade he deceyued ande saide hem forsoþe þat he was a god: ande alle hym herkende, fro þo leeste vntoto S.P.D. þo meestemoste S.P.D., sayande, He þis es þo vertewe of God þat es called Mag[n]amagna P; S has n inserted later; Maga C.D.. Þei 12gafe tente vnto1212-12 toke heede to S.P.D. hym, wharfore longe tyme wiþ hise fals craftes he made hem wode. Bot soþely whanne þei schulde haue trowed vntoto S.P.D. Philippe, prechinge vntoto S.P.D. hem of þo kengdome of heuen in þo name of IesuCrist follows, S.P.D., þere wore baptized many men ande wymmen. 14Þanne trowed he þat Symon1414-14 & þanne þ
t Symon byleued S.P.; ande 15whanne he schulde be baptised, he drowe hym vntoto S.P.D. Philippe; ande1515-15 om S.P. whanne he sawe þo vertewes ande þoom. S.P. wondurs þat bi Philippe wore done, þerforeþer of S.P.D. he was amerueylde wondurfully. Whan þo apostuls hade harde þat Samary hade receyued Goddes worde, þei sende vntoto S.P.D. hem Peter ande Ioon. Ande whanne þei wore komen, þei preyed for hem þat worekomen expunged, follows, C. turned, þat þei myghte take þo Holygoste: ȝitteȝif P. he kome noghte into iche of hem, bot only þeiþei þat S.P.D. wore baptized in þo name of Iesu, oure Lorde. Þanne putten þei þer hende vpon hem, ande þanne þei token þo Holygoste. Whanne þat Symon hade sene þat þurghe þo puttynge toom. S.P.D. oneon S.P.D. of þo apostulspostelys S.P. hende þo Holygoste was gifen vntoto S.P.D. hem,
he profured hem money, ande saide, Haue þis, ande gife me þat power, þat whomwhom so S.P.D. I putte vponom. S.P.D. my honde, he schal haue þo Holygoste. Ande Peter soþely ansuered hymhym answerde S.P.D. & saide, Þi money ande þi catelle be with þe in dampnacyon, for þow trow[ed]esteS.P.D.; troweste C. þat þe gifte of God wiþ money myghte be boghte. Neþer þow haueste parte ne lote in þis worde: for soþely þiþin S.P.D. hertte es noghte rightwise bifore God. Ande þer|fore do penaunce for þi wikkednes, ande preye þanne God, in auenture þat he wolewolde P. forgife þe þis wikked þoghte of þine hertte. For soþely in galle of bitternes ande in bonde of wikkednes I see þat þow erte. Þanne soþely Symon ansuered & saide, Preye ȝheom. S.P. vntoto S.P.D. God for me, þat none of alleom. S.P.D. þise falle vpon me whiche þat ȝhe haue sayde. Ande þei soþely witnessed ande spaken Goddes worde, ande ȝede vntoto S.P.D. Ieru|salem agayne; ande [in]S.P.D. many kengedams of Samarytanes 10tawghten þei ande1010-10 om. S.P.D. Vulg. evangelizabant. preched. An aungel of God vntoto S.P.D. Philippe saidespak & seyde., ande spake, Rise, ande wende tointo S.P.D. meridiane, vntoto S.P.D. þo way þat gos downe fro Ierusalem into Gaȝamȝ erased S; Gaam P., þat es a deserte place. Ande vppe he ros ande ȝede; ande þer he mette wiþ a man of Ethiopes, þat was a myghty man wiþ aþe S.P.D. qweene of Candacis of Ethiopes, þo whiche was ouer alle hire tresure, ande was a geldynge þat hade hire in kepinge; he kome to worschippe ande fortoto S.P.D. preye ininto S.P.D. Ierusalem: ande he was turned agayne, sittande vponon D. hise charre, redande Ysay þo prophete. Ande þo spiritte sayde vntoto S.P.D. Philippe, Kome nerre, ande ioyne þe to þis carte. Ande Philippe ranne þerto, ande harde hym redande Isaye þo prophete, ande he saide, Trowes þow, þat þow vndurstondes noghte þat þow redes? Ande he saide, How myghte Ivnderstonde follows, P. underston in marg. 1st corr. S., bot if any hade tawghte hit me? Ande he preyde Philippe, þat he wolde kome vppe ande sytte wiþ hym. Þo place þat he reddereode D. of was þis in þat prophecye, As a schepe vntoto S.P.D. þo slawghterslawþe P.
was he ledde, ande as a lombe bifore þo clipparFor þo clippar S.P.D. have þat scheriþ hym. wiþouten voice, so he opunde not hise mowþe. In meknes he bare his dome awaye ande his rightwise vengeance: hise generacyone who schal hit telle? For his life es taken awaye oute ofof þe S.P.D. erþe. Þo geldynge 4ansuered agayne ande sayde vnto Philyppe44-4 answerde to phylyp & seyde S.P.D., I preye þe, of what prophete sais he þis? of hym-seluen, or of aneny S.P.D.-oþer? Þanne soþely Philyppe tawghte hym, ande declared, bigynnande atte þat place þat he redde of þo prophecye, ande tolde hym of Iesus. Ande þowhylis S.P. whileste þei komeȝede S.P.D. by þo waye, þei kome vntoto S.P.D. a water; ande 9þanne saide þo geldynge, Lo, here es water99-9 þe geldyng seyde lo her ys water at the bottom of the page, 1st corr. S. follows in the text, P. om. D., andeom. S.P. who schal lette me here to be baptised? Ande Philippe saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, If þow trowe wiþ alle þine hertte, hit es leffulle vnto þe. Ande heinserted above the line, S.P. ansuered ande saide, I trowe þat Iesu Criste es Goddes son. Ande he comawnded þo carte to stonde, & boþe þei ȝode downe into þo water, Philippe ande heþe geldynge S.P. geld... on erasure in 1st corrector's hand, S. þe comelyng D., ande þer he baptised hymin margin, C.. Soþely whan þei wore wente vp outeom. S.P.D. of þo water þo spirytte of God rauysched Philippe away; & after sawe he hym nomore. He ȝode soþely bi þo waye makande ioye. Ande Philippe was fownden soþely in Aȝotoa ȝoto with oto on erasure, S. a ȝate D. a gate P., þat was an-oþer cyte; ande þer he ȝode abowte prechande vntoto S.P.D. allealle þe S.P.D. cytes, tillefort S.D. he kome to Cesarye.
SauleCm gm on erasure, C. þe ix chapter in a late hand, S. Paule D. In S. Saule with the S supplied by the 1st corr., the marginal letter indicating the initial is p. alwaye þrette ande wayted Goddes discipuls; he kome vntoto S.P.D. þo princeS.P.D.; princes C. of prestes, ande asched of hym pistels ande comyssions into Damaske vntoto S.P.D. þo synagoges, þat whomsoeuer he fonde of þo company of þe apostuls or hem|seluen, men or wymmen, to brynge hem bownden vntoto S.P.D. Ierusalem. Ande as he ȝode þiderworde, hit bifellefel S.P.D. þat he kome nereny S.P.D. Damaske: ande sodenly þer come a wondurful
lyghte alle aboute hym fro heuen, ande he felle downe vntoto S.P.D. þo erþe, ande harde a voyce sayande vntoto S.P.D. hym, Saule, Saule, wherto pursewes þow me? Ande he saide, Who erte þow, Lorde? Ande þo voyce saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, I am Iesus of Nazareth whom þat þow pursewes: hit es fulom. S.P. harde to þe to kesekyse D. kynse S.P. agayne þo prikke. Ande he qwakande ande dred|fulle saide, Lorde, what wilte þow þat I do? Ande oure Lorde saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, Rise, ande wende into þo cytee, ande þer hit schal be tolde þe, what þat 4þe bus44-4 þou byhoueþ to S.P. þe byhoueþ to D. do. Soþely þo men þat wore sende wiþ hym stoden alle mased, a voyce soþelyom. P. þei harde, bot no man þei sawe. Saule þanne soþely ros vppe fro þe erþe, opunde hise eyne, ande loked abouteloked aboute crossed out, S. om. P., bot no man& no þing P. but no þing with þing on erasure in darker ink, S. he sawe. Þei drowe hym forþe bi þo hende, ande ledde hym into Damaske; ande þer he was þree days wiþouten sighte ande noþer ete norne S.P.D. dranke. þer was a disciple in Damaske þat hatte Ananyas; ande God sayd to hym in vision, Anany. Ande he saide, Lo, Lorde, I am here. Ande oure Lorde saideinserted by contemporary hand, C. unto hymvnto hym om. S.P.D., Rise, ande wende vnto þo waystrete S.P.D. þat es calledclepyd S.P.D. Rectus, ande seche Saule in Iudasiewes P. howse, whoswhas D. name es Tharsen: for lo, þer he preys; ande he sawe þo man þat hatte Anany enterande into þo howse, ande puttande hise hondeshonde S.P. vntoto S.P.D. hym, þat he myghte receyue his syghteseyȝt in marg., 1st corr. S.. Ande Ananyas ansuered ande saide, Lordelo follows, dotted out, C., I hafe harde of many of þis man, how many harmes he haues done vntoto S.P.D. þi sayntes in Ierusalem: ande he haues powere of þo princes of prestes to bynde alle hem 19þat ben þi name oknowe1919-19 þt clepen þi name S.P.D.. Ande soþely oure Lorde sayde vntoto S.P.D. hym, Go forþe, for he es maked vntoto S.P.D. me a vessel of chooschoyse S.P.D. forto bere my name bifore kenges ande folke, ande bifore þo childer of Israel. Ande soþely I schalle schewe hymto hym S.P.D. how many þinges hym bihoues for my name suffureto precedes, P; in S. above the line in darker ink..
Ande Ananyas ȝode, ande enterde into þo howse, ande putte hise hondes vntoto S.P.D. hym, & sai[de]& sai in marg. C. & seyde S.P.D., Saule, broþer, oure Lorde Ihesus þat appered to þe in þo waye þat þow kome, sende me vntoto S.P.D. þe, þat þou haue þi syghte, ande be fulfilled of þo Holy Goste. Ande alssonea noon S.P.D. þer felle fro his eyghnecynghne C. slyme as hit wore þoom. S.P.D. skales of a fische; & so heom. S.P.D. receyued his sighte, ande ros vppe, ande was baptized; ande he was gretelyche comforþed he omitted after whanne P. whanne he hade taken mete. Ande þan soþely a fewe days he dwelled at Damaske wiþ þo disciples. Ande anone Poule ȝode into þo synagoges, ande preched Iesu þat he es verray Goddes sone. Ande alle þei wore ameruelde soþely þat hym harde, ande sayden, Ne was noghte heom. S.P.D. þis he þat in Ierusalem wiþstode hem þat wore þis name oknowea knowe S.P.D.? ande þerto he kome hider to lede hem bownden vntoto S.P. þo princes of 9þo lawe þat ben prynces of99-9 om. S.P.D. prestes. Ande Poule myche þoom. S.P.D. more he encresched, ande confunded þo Iewes þat dwelden atte Damaske, wele affermande þat he was Criste. Ande whanne he hade þer many days fulfilled, þo Iewes token cownseyl hym forto slee: ande soþely þer deceytes wore tolde vntoto S.P. Poule. Ande þei kepped þo ȝates boþe daye ande nyghte of þo cyte, to wayte hym forto slee; ande þo disciples token hym bi nyghte, ande leten hym downe bi þo walle in a bere-lepe. & soþely whanne he vntoto S.P. Ieru|salem kome, he drowe hym towarde þo discipuls; ande alle þei wore of hym aferde, noghte knowande how he was Goddes discipul. Bot Barnabas soþely toke hym, ande ledde hym 9to þo disciples ande99-9 om. S.P.D. to þo apostulspostelus S., ande tolde hem alleom. S.P.D. how in þo waye he hade sene Godde, ande how þat he spake wiþ hym, & how faiþefully he hade done in Damaske in þo name of Iesu. Ande he was wiþ hem wendande in ande oute in Ierusalem, ande trewly doynge in þo name of Iesu. Ande vntoto S.P.D. þo gentyles he spake, ande disputed wiþ þo Grekes; & 13þei soghten faste aboute hym forto slee1313-13 þei soþly souȝte to slee hym S.P.D.. & whanne þo breþer knewne þat, vponon S.P.D. þo nyȝte to Cesarye
soþely þei hym ledde, ande sente hym vntoto S.P.D. Tharsum. Þanne holy chirche þurghe alle þo Iurye ande Galyle ande Samarye hade pees, ande was gretely edified, wendandegoynge S.P.D. in þo drede of God, ande was fulfilled in komforþe of þo Holygoste. Ande Peter, whanne he hade passed alle þo kontres abowte, ande schulde kome to þo holy folkefolkes S.P.D. þat wore dwellynge at Lydde, he fonde þer a man whoshis S.P.D. name was Eneam, þat fro he was eghte ȝhere olde hade lyne bedredenon þe palysye follows, P.; in margin, 1st corr. S.. Ande Peter saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, Enea, oure Lorde Iesu Criste hele þeabove the line, 1st corr. S.; om. D., rise vppe fro þi bedde. Ande he anone rose vppe. & alle þei hym sawe þat atte Lydde dwelleddwelled at ledde S.P.D. ande Saron, þat wore conuerted vntoto S.P.D. God. In Ioppen forsoþe þer was a discipul, a womman þat hattehette S.D. Tabita, þat propur name es Dorcas: þo whiche was ful 10of almes ande of gode dedes1010-10 of goode werkes & almes S.P.D. þat scheȝhe P. vntoto S.P.D. many dide. Ande& it in þo dayes byfell S.P.D. on a day hit bifelle, þatom. S.P.D. schehe D. ȝhe P. wexe seke ande died. Whanne þei hire hade waschen, þei layde hire in þerhire S.P.D. halle. Ande soþely so as þat cyte Lydde was nerenyȝ S.P.D. þo towne of Ioppen, þo disciples harden telle how Peter was þerynne; þei sende tweynetwey men S.P.D. vnto hym, preynge hym noghte fortoto S.P.D. dwelle, bot faste to kome vntoto S.P.D. hem. Ande saynte Peter ros vppe ande ȝode forþe wiþ hem. Ande whanne saynteom. S.P.D. Peter was komen, þei ledden hym into þo synaclehalle S.P.D., ande alle þo wydowes stoden aboute hym ande wepped, ande schewed hym þo cloþeskootes & þe cloþes S.P.D. ande þo kotes þat Dorcas hade hem made. Ande Peter maked hem alle forto wende forþe, ande he kneled downe ande preyed, ande turned hym vntoto S.P.D. þo deade body ande saide, Thabita, surgethabyta surge underlined, S.P. (þat es, Thabita rise). Ande atte his worde scheȝhe P. opund hire eyne; ande whan scheȝhe P. sawe Peter scheȝhe P. toke hym hire honde, ande he raised hire vppe. Ande þanne he calledclepid S.P.D. þo sayntes ande þo wydowes, & schewed hem þat scheȝhe P. was ona S.P. lyue. Ande
þat was tolde þurghe-oute Ioppen; ande many þerfore trowedbyleueden follows Crist, P; in S. in marg. marked to be inserted after Crist. in Iesu Criste.
[Þ]anneWhanne C. þanne S.P.D. C 10 in margin, C. Peter longe tyme ande manye dais efter dwelledhade dw. C.S.P.D. in Ioppen wiþ a man þat hattehette S.P.D. Symonde, corueser.
AndeChapter X begins here, S.P.D.; the x chaptere in marg., in late XVIth century hand, S. þo whilestewhyles S.P.D. þer was a man in Cesarye þat hattehette S.P.D. Cornelyus, centurio, a man þat was relygyowse ande dredande God wiþ alle hise howsemeyne, þat many almes vntoto S.P.D. þo puple did; ande euer preyande God. He þis sawe in visioneopunli in marg., marked to be inserted after visyon, S; follows in text, P., as hit wore þo nyntenyþe S.D. neyþe P. houre of þo daye, þo awngel of God 12en|terande in vnto hym1212-12 entrede into hym S.P.D., ande þus vntoto S.P.D. hym heom. S.P.D. sayde, Cornely. Ande [he]S.P.D. loked vpon hym, ande wondurfully was aferde, ande saide, Lorde, who erte þowe? Ande þo awngel saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, Þi preyers ande þine almes-dedes ben steghnesteyȝed S.P.D. vppe andeande ben hade om. S.P.D. ben hade in mynde in þo sighte of God. Ande sende now men vntointo S.P.D. Ioppen, ande make þe knowne wiþ Symonde, þat es calledclepid S.P.D. Peter, þat es harbarowed atte Symons howse, þo curyourecorueseer S.P., whoswhas D. howse stondes biside þo see; ande he schal teche þe what þe bihoues to do. Ande whanne þo awngel was departud fro hym þat so vntoto S.P.D. hym spake, he calledclepid S.P.D. tweyne of his owne howse þat wore homely wiþ hym, ande alsso a knyghte þat mykel dredde God, to be one of hem forto wende þat waye. Whanne he hade tolde hem how hit was, he sende hem vntoto S.P.D. Ioppen. Þoþat S.P.D. toþer day þei ȝode þer waye ande kome nereny S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. þeþat S.P.D. cyte. Saynte Peter wenteȝede S.P. vppe abouen into þo howse forto saye hise preyers, aboute þo houre of myddaye. Ande efter whanne hym hungred, he wolde 25go vnto þo mete2525-25 not (in marg.) go to m... expunged, S.; not ete P. go to mete D.; þo whilestewhyle S.P.D. þei dighte his mete in spiritte he was rauysched; ande he sawe heuen opunde, ande a vessel kome þerfro, as
hit wore a grete schete, by þo foure korners laten downe from heuen vntoin to S.P.D. erþe: in þoom. S.P.D. whiche wore alle foure-fotud bestes ande nedders of erþe ande fowles of heuen. & a voyce from heuen kome vntoto S.P.D. hym, ande sayde, Rise, Peter, slee ande ete. Ande Peter soþely saide, God forbede, Lorde; for neuer ȝitte I ete alle komune & vnclene (as who seyseiþ S.P., none suche bestes)underlined, S.P.C.. Ande efte þo voyce saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, Þat atþat S.P. God has made clene, calleclepe S.P.D. þow hit not comune& vnclene follows, P. onclen in marg., 1st corr. S.. Andeom. S.P. þis was þries done, & þo vessel taken agayne vppe intoto S.P.D. heuen. Ande þo while Peter mused in hymseluen what þis vision schulde be, þeom. S.P. whicheþat S.P. vntoto S.P.D. hym [was]schulde be C. was S.P.D. schewed, þo men komen þat wore sende from Cornelyo, ande spirdeaxsed S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. Symondes house, ande stoden at þo ȝate; ande calledcleped S.P.D. ynne ande asched if Symon, þat es calledcleped S.P.D. Peter, worehe in marg., 1st corr., marked to be inserted after were, S. harbarowed atte þat place. Soþely as Peter was þenkande vponon S.P.D. his visione, þo spirit saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, Loo, three men sechen þe. Rise vppe þerfore, ande go downe, ande wende forþe wiþ þem; & be þow noghte aferde, for I þoo men sentecorrected to sende, 1st corr. S.. Saynte Peter ȝode downe ande sayde vntoto S.P.D. hemþe men S.P.D., Lo, I am he whom þat ȝhe seche: what es þo cause wharfore þat ȝhe hider come? Þo whiche ansuered vnto hym, Cornelius centurio, a man þat es rightwise ande trewly dredes God ande has wytnes þeroffe alle þo folke of þo Iurye, an ansuere he hade of þo holy awngel forto sende efter þe ande brynge þe vntoto S.P.D. his howse þi wordes forto here. Ande Peter ledde hem inne, ande he þem þer harbarowede; ande vponon S.P.D. þoþat S.P. þat oþer D. toþer daye roos ande ȝode forþe wiþ hem; ande summe of his breþer ȝode fro Ioppen wiþ hym. & soþely þoþat S.P. þat oþer D. toþer daye þei enterde into Cesarye. Soþely Cornelyus gadured togider his knowne frendes ande hem þat nedfulle were vntoto S.P.D. hym, ande abode Peter ande þoohem S.P.D. þat wore wente [for]S.P.D. wiþ C. hym. Ande so whanne Peter was komen ande schulde enter into his howse,
Cornelius kome agaynes hym, ande felle downe vntoto S.P.D. hise fete, ande worschipped hym. Ande Peter lyftetoke S.P.D. hym vppe ande saide, Rise, for I am a man as þow erte. Ande whanne to-gider þeiþei in marg. C., follows whanne, S.P.D. haden spoken, Peter ȝode ynne wiþ hym, ande fonde þer many þat wore komen togader: ande he sayde vntoto S.P.D. hem, Ȝhe wote how þat hit es loþelyvnholy P; in S. with vn in marg. in a later hand. þinge a Iewe fortoto S.P.D. haue comunyngecommynge D. cōmynge with a second m inserted above the line, in a later hand, S. togider or fortoom. S.P.D. come vnto men of oþer nacyonesnacyon S.P.D.. Bot God schewed vnto me þat I schulde calleclepe S.P.D. no man comune orne S.P.D. vnclene: ande þerfore wiþouten dowte I am comen vnto ȝowe. Ande þerfore I asche ȝowe for what cause sende ȝe efterfor S.P. me forto kome vnto ȝowe. Ande þanne Cornelius saide, Fro foure dais siþenhenne S.P.D. vnto þis houre I haue fastud ande preyed in my howse; ande þo nyntenyþe S.D.; neyþe P. houre a man stode bifore me in& in S.P.D. a schynande white cloþinge, ande saide, Cornely, þi preyer es harde, ande þine almes-dedus ben þoghte vpon [in]S.P.D. þo sighte of Godde. Sende þerfore vntointo S.P.D. Ioppen efter Symonde, þat es calludcleped S.P.D. Peter; he es harbarowed in Symondesymonys S.P.D. howse, þohowse þo om. S.P.D. curyoure, bi þo see. Ande þerfore alsalso S.P. alsmertely D. smertely I sente vnto þe; ande þow wele dideste þat þow come vnto vs. Now þerfore we alle ben here bifore þi sighte, fortoto S.P.D. here alle þinges þat ben comawndedþe follows, P.D. þe in marg., S. of God. Peter soþelyopende soþly S.P.D. opunde his mouþe ande saide, In soþefastenes I hafe fownde ande vndurstonden þat God es noghte outetaker of parsons: bot in alle folke þat dredes hym ande dos rightwisenes, he acceptes ande receyues. He sente his worde vntoto S.P.D. þo childer of Israel, techande ande schewande pees þurghe Iesu Criste. He þis es Lorde soþely of alle. Ȝhe knowe þatþt þer with r in a later hand, S. þt þer P. þo wordea worde in marg. 1st corr. S., follows knowen, P. was made ande knowen bi alle þo Iurye, bigynnande fro Galilee, efter þo bapteme þat
saynte Iohn preched, Iesum fro Nazareth, how God en|noynted hym þurghe þo Holygoste ande vertewe: þo whiche passed by, wele doande, ande helande alle þatin marg., S. wore ouerlyne wiþ þo dewle. For wiþ hym was God. Ande we ben wytnes of alle þinges þat he did in þo Iewrye ande Ierusalem; whom þei slowe, hongande hym vpon a tree. Hym God raysed vntoto S.P.D. life þo þridde daye, ande made 3hym forto be sene (or gafe hym to be mayntende, þat es, opunly knowen þat he es risen agayne33-3 hym openly knowen þat he was rysen aȝeyn S.P.D.), noghte vntoto S.P.D. alle folke, bot to wytnesses þat wore bifore ordeynd of God, vntoto S.P.D. vs þat eten ande dranke wiþ hym efter þat he was risen fro deþe. Ande he bade vs preche vntoto S.P.D. þo puple, ande bere wytnes: for he hit es þat of God es iustise of qwikke ande of deade. Vnto hym alle prophetes wytnesses berenbere wytnes S.P.D.; bi þo name of hym alle men þat trowne in hym fortoto S.P.D. take forgifnes of alle þer synnes. Þo whilestewhyles S.P.D. Peter spake þise wordes, þo Holygoste fel vpon alle þatþe P. harde þoom. P. wordes. Ande wore awondurd þurghe þo circumsicyon þoof þe S.P.D. trewe folke þat komen wiþ Peter, for in nacyons þo grace was ȝotted oute of þo Holygoste (þat es, for þat oþer nacyons hade þo grace of þo Holygoste). Þei harden hem forsoþe spekande langages ande preysande God. Thanne ansuered Peter, None may werne ne defende water, þat þise ben noghte baptised, þat han receyued þo Holygoste as we haue; ande comawnded hem fortoto S.P.D. be baptized in þo name of Iesu Criste. Thanne þei preyed hym fortoto S.P.D. dwelle þere summe days wiþ hemcapitulum xim follows. Cm 11m in marg., C. þe xi chap' in a XVIth century hand, S..
Þo apostulspostuls S.P.D. harden ande conceyueden, & alsso þo breþer, þat þo gentiles hade receyued Goddes worde, ande wor|schipped God þeroffe. Whanne Peter was wente vppe agayne vntoto S.P.D. Ierusalem, þei þat wore circumsiced striuen wiþ hym, ande saiden, Why ȝodeste þow vntoin to S.P.D. men þat hade þer circumsicyngeprepucyon S.P. prepucium D. (15þat es, whi ȝodeste þow wiþ hem þat haden þer prepucy1515-15 om. S.P.D. ande wore noghte circumsicedcircumsydyd S.D.)? ande þow
eteste wiþ hem. Ande Peter biganne ande expowned vntoto S.P.D. hem bi ordur, ande saide, I was in þo cyte of Ioppen prey|ande: ande I sawe, as I was rauisched in spiryt, ain a S.P.D. visione, a vessel comande downe, as hit hade ben a grete schete lateny laten S.P. i erased before laten, D. downe bi þo foure korners fro heuen, ande kome vntoto S.P.D. me. Ande as I bihelde þer-inne, I sawe foure-fotud bestes of erthe & crepande wormes ande fowles of heuen. Ande soþely I harde a voyce sayande to me, Rise, Peter, slee ande ete. Ande I saide agayne, Nay, Lorde, for alle vnclene þingecomune þinge or vnclene S.P.D. enturde noghteneuere S.P.D. into my mowþe. Ande soþely þo voyce ansuered þo secunde tyme, ande saide, Þat atþat S.P. God haues clensed, say þow noghte hit es vnclene. 8Ande þat was thryes done88-8 & þanne soþly þis was don S.P.D., ande alle were taken vppe into heuen. Ande alsalso S.P. smertely three men stoden in þo howse þat I was inne, sende fro Cesarye vntoto S.P.D. me. Ande þoom. S.P. Spiritte saide vntoto S.P.D. me þat I schulde go wiþ hem, no þinge dowtande. Soþely þer come wiþ me þise sexe breþer; ande we ȝode into þo mannes howse: ande he tolde vntoto S.P.D. vs how he hade sene þo awngel of God stondynge in his howse, ande sayande vntoto S.P.D. hym, Sende into Ioppen to Symon, þat es calledcleped S.P.D. Peter, forto come vnto þe; þo whiche schal spekekepe S.P. wordes to þe, in þo whiche þow schalte be saued, þow ande alle þi meyne. Soþely whanne I biganne to speke, þo Holygoste come downe vpon hem, as he did vponnein S.P.D. vs in þo bigynnynge. Forsoþe I vmþoghtebyþouȝte S.P.D. me ofon P. þo wordes of oure Lorde, as he saide, Iohn forsoþe baptised wiþ water; ȝhe soþely schul be baptised wiþ þo Holygoste. Þerfore if God haue gifen vntoto S.P.D. hym þo same grace þat he haueshaþ ȝeuen S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. vs, þat trowed in Iesu Criste, whatte was I to werne oure Lorde fortoto S.P.D. gife hem þo Holygoste? (19As who say, how myghte I or schulde Iom. S.P.D. warne God to gife vntoto S.P.D. hem þo Holygoste1919-19 underlined, S.P.), þat trowed in þo name of Iesu Criste. Whanne þei hade hardeom. S.P. þis, þei helde hem stille, ande þanked God, ande saide, Þerfore God
haues gifen vntoto S.P.D. þo gentiles penaunce to þo lyfe euer|lastande. Ande þei for certayne þat wore spredde obrode fro þo tribulacyone þat vndurom. P. Steuen was done, ȝedenþei ȝeden S.P.D. aboute to þei kome vntoto S.P.D. Fenys, ande to Ciprum, ande Antioche, to no man spekande worde bot onely vntoto S.P.D. þo Iewes. Soþely summe of hem wore men of Cipri ande of Cireny, þo whiche, whanne þei comen vnto Antioche, þei speken vntoto S.P.D. þo gentiles, tellande ande schewande Ihesu Criste. Ande Goddes myghte was wiþ hem, ande myche noumbur of trow|andeþat trowede S.P.D. was conuerted vntoto S.P.D. God. Soþely þo worde þeroffe come vntoto S.P.D. þo heryng of þo chirche, þat was in Ierusalem, of þiseom. S.P. þinges: ande þei sende Barnabas vntoto S.P.D. Antioche. Whanne þat he come þider, andehe S.P. sawe þo grace of God, he was ioyful; ande he excited hem alle to holde þer hertes stabul in þer purpos to God. For he was a gode man, ande fulle of þo Holygoste ande ofom. S.P.D. faiþe: ande myche puple put hem vntoto S.P.D. God. After he ȝode to Tharsum forto seche Sawle; þo whiche, whanne þeihe had S.P.D. haden hym fownden, he ledde hym vntointo S.P.D. Antioche. Ande alle aan S.P. hole ȝhere þei dwelled þore togider inin þe S.P.D. chirche, ande tawghten myche puple; so þat þei wore knowne in alle Antioche for Cristes discipuls. Ande soþely in þise days þat þei þer wore, þer come prophetes fro Ierusalem vntoto S.P.D. Antioche. Ande one of hem, whoswhas D. whos with o on erasure, S. name was Agabus, ros vppe, ande prophecyed or bitokende þurghe spiritte a grete hunger þat was forto come þurgh-oute alle þo worlde; þo whiche was done in þoom. S.P.D. tyme of Claudii. Þo disciples, icheone forsoþe after þat þei haden, purposed to sende vntoto S.P.D. þer breþer, þat hit myghte serue hem þat wore dwellande attein S.P.D. Iude vntoto S.P.D. þer sustynaunce. Ande so þei diden, sendande hit vntoto S.P.D. þo eldeste by Barnabas ande SauleCapitulum xiim follows; in marg. Cm 12 C. ye xii co in a XVIth cent. hand, S..
Þo same tyme sente Herowde þo kenge powere, summeto turmente precedes in S.P.D. of holy chirche to tourmente. Soþely he slowe Iames, JonesIames Iones in different ink on erasure, C.
broþer, wiþ a swerde. He sawe þat he myghte [so]S.P.D. plese to þo Iewes. He sette fortoto S.P.D. take Petertake peter repeated in marg., 1st corr. S., andeom. S.P.D. whanne þat heom. P. hade hym taken, he sende hym into prisone, ande bitawghtebytooke S.P.D. hym to foure knyghtes fortoto S.P.D. kepe; for hit was lentenin l. S.P.D. tyme, ande efter Paske wolde he lede hym forþe vntoto S.P.D. þo puple. Ande Peter soþely was holden in prisone: soþely preyer was made for hym vntoto S.P.D. God wiþouten cessynge of holy chirche. Forsoþe whanne þat Herowde schulde haue ledde hym forþeerasure of about 5 letters follows, C., in þat nyghte bifore was Peter slepande bitwene twoo knyghtes, bownde wiþ twoo chenyes; ande kepars bifore þo ȝhates kepped þo prisone. Ande lo, þer stode by hym an awngelaungel of god S.P.D., ande lyghteful schynedschynynge S.P.D. in þo stede þer he was: he smote Peter vponon S.P.D. þo side, ande stiredmeuede S.P.D. hym & sayde, Rise vppe smertely. Ande þo chenyes felle of hise hendehondis S.P.D.. Ande soþely þo awngel saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, Girde þe, ande do vponon S.P.D. þiþi hoses & þi schone S.P.D. schone ande þine hoses. Ande so he did. & heom. P. sayde vntoto S.P.D. hym, Keste þi cloþes aboute þe, ande folow me. Ande he ȝode oute, ande he folowed, ande wiste noghte þat hit was soþe þat þatom. S.P.D. was nowom. S.P.D. done bi þo awngel: for he wende þatom. S.P.D. he hade ben in a visione. Þei passed soþely þo firste ande þo secunde warde, ande komen vntoto S.P.D. þo iren ȝhate þo whiche ledes vntoto S.P.D. þo cyte, þat onone was opunde to hem: ande þei ȝode oute ande wente forþe into a way; ande þo awngel departed fro hym. Ande Peter turned hym vntoto S.P.D. hymseluen, ande saide, Nowe wote I wele, þat God hauesom. S.P.D. sende his awngel vntoto S.P.D. me, ande delyuered me oute of þo power of Herowde, & fro alle þo abidynge of þo puple of þeom. S.P.D. Iewrye. Ande he bihelde ande come vnto Maryeshis expunged, S. howse, þat was Ioones modure, þo whiche was knowen name Marcus, where þat many wore gadured togider, ande were preyande. Ande soþely whan he knokkedcnokkyng S.P. at þo dore of þo ȝhate, þer come forþe a wenche þat hattehyȝte S.P. hete D.
Rode, to loke who was þere. Ande whanne sche harde þo voyce of Peter, for ioy scheȝhe P. ranneran in & S.P.D., lefte þo ȝhate spardeclosyd S.P.D., ande tolde hem þat Peter stondes bifore þe ȝate. Ande þei saide vntoto S.P.D. hire, Þow maddesart madd S.P.D.. Scheȝhe P. saide, Soþely hit es so. Ande soþely þei saide, Hit es anhis S.P.D. awngel. Peter soþely stode stille atte þo ȝhate ande knokked. Whanne þei hade þo ȝhate opunde, þei sawe hym ande wore awondured. Ande he bekkende vntoto S.P.D. hem wiþ hise honde þat þei schulde holde þem stille. He tolde how þat God hade ledde hym oute ofof þe S.P. prisone, ande saide, Sendes worde herof vntoto S.P.D. Iames, ande to oure breþer. Ande he ȝede forþe, ande wente into an-oþer place. Whanne þat þo day come, þer was not made a lytel turbulynge amonge þo knyghtes þat hym kepped, what was bifallen of Peter. Soþely whanne Herowde asched efter hym, ande wolde haue ledde hym vntoto S.P.D. þo puple, ande fonde hym noghte, he 8made to asche88-8 enquered S.P.D. of þo kepars, ande [he comawnded]S.P.D. brynge hem vntoto S.P.D. hym. Ande Peter ȝode fro Iu[de]fro Iu in marg., de cut away in the binding, C. into Cesarye, ande þer he dwelled.Verse 20 is missing in C.; it has been supplied from S. [Soþly wiþ Tyrus & Sydonus Heroude was wroþ. But þei wiþ o wylle come to hym & PersuasoblastoVulg. et persuaso Blasto. (!) þat was þe kenges higheste chaumbirleyn, þei asked pees of hym, for þat he schulde goo into þere kengdomes.Vulg. eo quod alerentur regiones eorum ab illo.] Afterworde, vponon S.P.D. a day þat was ordeynde, Herowde claddecloþed S.P.D. hym in kenges cloþinge, ande sette hym vponon his S.P.D. a sege, ande cownseyld wiþ þo folke of Tiris ande Sidone. Ande þo folke cried, Wiþ goddes voyce ande noghte with mannes. Ande alssosoþly S.P. smertely an awngel of God smote hym, for he gafe noghte worschip norne S.P.D. honoure vntoto S.P.D. God, ande was wastud with wormes ande dyed. Soþely þanne þo worde of God wexe and was made mycheepistola follows, C..
WanneCm 13m in the margin on erasure, C. Barnabas ande Saule haden don þer office atte Ierusalem, þei turne[d]turnen C. turned S.P.D. þem agayne, ande toke wiþ hem
Iohn Marcusþe which is clepid Marchus in darker ink on erasure, S..
þerChap. xiii. begins here, S.P.D. ye xiii co in a XVIth century hand, S. wore at Antioche in þo chirche prophetes ande doctoures, amonge þo whiche wore Barnabas ande Symeon, þat was calledcleped S.P.D. Blakke, ande Lucy of Cyrenecyrenence S.P.D., ande Manaen þat was þo plawfereþe blawfere S.D. blawsere P. of Herowde þo Tetrarkesecond r erased, S. detrache P., ande Saulus. Ande whanne þei mynisterde vntoto S.P.D. Godde ande fastud, þo Holygoste saide vntoto S.P.D. hem, Twynnesdeparteþ S.P.D. to me BarnabanSaule & barnaban S.P.D. ande Saulum vntoto S.P.D. þo warke þat I haue taken þem to. Þan þoom. P. apostulespostelus S.P.D. fastudfaste S.P.D. ande preyed ande layde onne hem þer hondes ande lete hem go. & Barna[ba]s ande SawleSaulus & barnabas S.P.D., þat wore sende of þo Holigoste, ȝode vntoto S.P.D. Selewce, ande fro þeþenþen S.P.D. þei schipped vntoto S.P.D. Cyper. Ande whanne þei wore komen to Salamyne, þei preched Goddes worde in þo synagogessynagoge S.P.D. of þo Iewes, ande þei haden wiþ hem John in mynisterynge of Goddes worde. Ande whanne þei hade ouergone alle þat ile vnto Paphum, þei fonde a man þat was a wycche, a false prophete ande a Iewe, ande hise name was Baryehu; þat was wiþ þo proconsul Sergyo Paulo, þo whiche was a wareslyȝ S.P. man ande wise. (A proconsul es he þat ledes a towne, or guuernes bi cownseyl.)gloss underlined, S. He þis proconsul calledcleped S.P.D. Barnaban ande Poule vntoto S.P.D. hym, for he desired to here þo wordeof, expunged, follows, C. of God. Ande he Elymas þo wiche wiþstode hem, for þus was hise name expowned or calledcleped S.P.D., Elymas. Ande he þis wyche was abowte in alle þat he kouþe to turne þoom. P. pro|consul fro þo faiþe. Ande Poule was fulfilled wiþ þo Holy|goste, ande bihelde hym, & saide, A, þow þat erte ful of alle gile, ande fulle of fallace, ande sone of þo fende, & enmye of alle rightwisenes, þow styntesrestest S.P. noghte to vndo þo righte ways of God. & lo, þo honde of God es vponon S.P. þe, ande þow schalte be blynde, ande þow schalte noghte see þo sonne vntoto S.P.D. certayne tyme. Ande onone dymnes andedymnes ande om. S.P.D. derkenes felle vpon hym; ande he wente aboute sekande if any wolde
take his honde to lede hym. Thanne þo proconsul, whanne he sawe þis, he trowed in God, ande meruayled on þo doctrine of God. Ande whanne Poule ande þoo þat wore wiþ [hym]S.P.D. schipped fro Papho, þei come vntoto S.P.D. Pergen of Pamphilye: ande Iohn departed fro hem ande turned agayne vntoto S.P.D. Ierusalem. Ande þei passande þurghe Pargen come& come S.P.D. vnto Antioche of [Persidye]S.P.D.; a blank with room for circa 5 letters, C.; ande in þo daye of sabbate þei enterd into þo synagoge ande sete þerinne. Ande efter þo lessone of þo lawe ande of þo prophetes, [þe prynces]S.P.D. of þoom. D.P. synagoge sende vntoto S.P.D. hem, sayande, Ȝhe men, dereom. S.P.D. breþer, if þer be any worde of exhortacyon vntoto S.P.D. þo puple, says hit. Andeand soþly S.P. Poule risande ande wiþ his honde biddandebad S.P.D. Between honde and biddande erasure of about 5 letters, C. silence he saide vntoto S.P.D. hem, Men of Israel, ande ȝhe þat dreden God, heres þise wordes. Þo God of þo folke of Israel chesedchese. with erasure of one letter, S. chese P. oure faders, ande he highed hise folke þewhylis S.P.D. whileste þei were comelynges ande dwellynge in þo lande of Egipte, ande in stalworþe arme ande& in S.P.D. highe myghte he ledde hem oute of þo lande of Egipte. Ande by þo tyme of fourty ȝeres he suffured þer maners in þo deserte; ande destroyed seuen nacyons in þo lande of Chanaan, ande by lotte he dalte vntoto S.P.D. hem þer londe, as after foure hundreþehundred S.P.D. ande fifty ȝere. Ande after þis he gafe hem domes-men to rewle hem vntoto S.P.D. þo tyme of Samuel þo prophete. Ande fro þo tyme of Samuel þei asched a kenge to be þer gouernoure: ande God gafe hem a kenge, Saul þo sone of Cys, ofa man of S.P.D. þo tribe of Beniamyn, fourty ȝhere. Ande after hym þishym þis om. S.P.D. Saule, God gafe vntoto S.P.D. hem Dauid þo kenge, vntoto S.P.D. whom he beres wytnes, ande saysseyde S.P.D., I haue fownden Dauid, þo sone of Iesse, a man efter my hertte þo whiche schal do alle my willes. Of þo sede of hym þis Dauidþis Dauid om. S.P.D. God sende, as he biheghte, a sauyoure vntoto S.P.D. Israel, Ihesu. Ande Iohn preched bifore þo face of his comynge þo baptyme of penawnce vntoto S.P.D. alle þo
puple of Israel. Ande whanne Iohn hade fulfilled his course, he saide vntoto S.P.D. po folke of Israel, I am noghte he whomþat S.P. ȝhe supposed þat I was. Bot loo, he comes efter me, of whom I am noghte worþi to lowse þo chausersschoon S.P. of hise fete. Ande vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe, dere breþer ande childer of þo kynneafter kynne erasure of circa 8 letters, C. of Abraham, ande to þooȝow S.P.D. þat in ȝowe drede God es sende þo worde of þis hele. BotBut soþly S.P.D. þoo þat dwelledduellen S.P.D. in Ierusalem, ande þo princes of þat cyte, þat knewe noghte þis Iesu, ande þo voycevoyces S.P.D. ande þoom. S.P.D. spekynge of þo prophetes, þo whiche ben redde iche sabbate, þei fulfilled, demande hym. Ande no cause of deþe þei fonde in hym, ande ȝitteom. P. þei asched of Pilate forto slee hym. Ande whanne þei hadeom. S.P.D. ended alle þinges þat wore writen of hym, þei toke hym downe of þo tree, ande layde hym in a graue. Ande God raysedsoþlyche reryd S.P.D. hym fro deþe vponin S.P.D. þo thridde daye, ande he was sene bi many dayes of hem þat komen wiþ hym fro Galilee vnto Ierusalem, þat ȝitte vntoto S.P.D. þis day ben hise wytnes to þo puple. Ande we scheweschewed P. vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe þo biheste þat God highte vntoto S.P.D. oure fadirs: þat God haues fulfilled hit in oureafter oure erasure of 4 letters, C. childer, raysande Iesuom. S.P. fro þo deþe; as hit es writen in þo secunde psalme, My sone þow erte, þis day Ihaue I S.P.D. haue goten þein marg. 1st corr. S. om. D.. Ande for þat he so raysed hym from þe deþe, þat he schulde no more see corupcyone, þus he saide, I schal gife vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe þo holy trewe þinges of Dauid. Ande þerfore he says in an-oþer place, I schal noghte gife þine halowe fortoto S.P.D. see corrupcyone. Bot Dauid in his generacyone, whanne he hade mynysterde vntoto S.P.D. þo wille of God, he slepped (or, dyed), ande was laydeset P. put on erasure in a later hand, S. vnto hise faders, ande& as P. as erased in S. he sawe corrupcyone. Bot he þat God raysedreryd S.P.D. fro þo deþe sawe nonot S.P.D. corrupcyone. Ande þer|fore ȝhe men, dere breþer, be hit knowne vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe þat bi hym es schewed to ȝowe of alle remyssion of ȝoure synnes,
fro þo whiche ȝhe myghte noghte be iustified in þo lawe of Moyses. ,Bot in hym whoso trowes, he es iustified. Bes ware þerfore, þat hit kome noghte vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe, þat es writen in þo prophetes: Ses, ȝhe despisars, ande ȝhe meruayle, ande ȝhe ben loste; for a warke Iþat I C. wirche in ȝowre days, þo warke þat ȝhe schal noghte trowe, if any telle hit vntoom. S.P. to D. ȝowe. Ande whanne þei wente oute of þo synagoge, þo puple preyed hem þat þeierasure of circa 7 letters follows, C. schulde speke þise wordes in þo nexte sabbate filowande. Ande whanne þei hade lefte þo synagoge, many Iewes ande comelynges folowed Poule ande Barnaban; ande þei amonestud þem forto dwelle in þo grace offe God. Ande in þo nexte sabbate folowande alle þo cyte almoste come fortoto S.P.D. here Goddes worde. Ande þo Iewes see grete multitude of folke come forto here Poule, ande þei wore fulle of enuye ande agaynsaide þo wordus of Poule, blasphemande. Thanne saiden Poule ande Barnabas traistely vnto þe Iewes, To ȝowe firste hitom. S.P.D. bihouedbyhoueþ S.P.D. to speke Goddes worde. Bot for ȝhe refuse hit, ande deme ȝoureseluen vnworþi to aylastandeþe euerelastynge S.P.D. life, loo, we turnen vs vntoto S.P.D. nacyons ande leue ȝowe. For so oure Lorde bade vs, I haue sette þe, he saide, in lyghte of nacyones, þat þow be my hele vntoto S.P.D. þo ende of þoom. S.P.D. erþe. Ande þe nacyons whanne þei harde þisþe on erasure; in marg. ioyeden & glorifyeden þe in a later hand, marked to be inserted after herde, S. worde, 11þei wore ioyfulle, ande þei glorified þo worde1111-11 om. S.P.D. of God: ande als many as wore ordeynde to aye-lastandeþe euerelastynge S.P.D. life troweden. Ande þo worde of God was sparpulde þurghe alle þo contree. Ande þo Iewes stirdeentysed S.P.D. relygiowse wymmenwym above the line, in a later hand, S; men P. ande honeste, andeom. P. þo firste of þo cyte, & þei stirdemeuyd S.P.D. a persecucyone to Poule ande Barnaban, ande kestechasyd S.P.D. hem oute of þer contreescuntrey S.P.D.. Ande Poule ande Barnaban keste þo powder of þer fete agaynes hem, ande kome vnto Yconye. Ande þo discipules wore fulfilledfyllyd S.P. wiþ ioye & wiþ þo Holygoste.
AndeCm 14m in a later hand, in marg., C. Þe xiiii co in a XVIth cent. hand, S. hit bifelle in Iconye, þat grete multitude of Iewes ande of Grekes enturde togadire vntointo S.P.D. þo synagoge. Ande þo Iewes þat wore vntrowþeful stiredmeuyd S.P.D. persecucyone, ande excited þo herteswylle S.P.D. of nacyons agaynes þo breþer. Bot God grawnted sone pees, ande longe tyme þei dwelled þer, doande trestlytrewely S.P.D. & stedfastely in God, þat berehere P. wytnes vntoto S.P.D. þe worde of hise grace, ande grawnted wondures ande tokens to be done by þo hende of hise seruantes. Bot þo multitude of þat cytee was deuydid; for summe helde wiþ þo Iewes, summe& summe P. wiþ þo apostuls. Ande whanne þo hastynes of þo Iewes ande þe gentyles assentud togider wiþ þer princes, fortoto S.P.D. punysche þo apostuls wiþ iniuryos wordes, ande forto stone hem, whanne þei knewe þis, þei fledde into þo cytes of Lycaonye, Lystram ande Derben ande alle þo contre aboute: ande þere þei wore prechande. Ande alle þo multitude was stiredmeuyd S.P.D. in þer doctrine; ande Poule ande Barnabas dwelled in Lystris. Ande þer was a man in Lystris þat was 9seke in his fete, ande was99-9 om. S.P.D. halte ande lame fro his moder wombe, ande neuer wente vponon S.P.D. hise fete. He þis harde Poule spekande: ande Poule bihelde hym & sawe þat he hade faiþe to be sawfe, ande cryed wiþ a grete voyce ande saide, To þe I saye in þe name of oure Lorde Iesu Criste, rise vpon þi fete righte. Ande he stirte vppe ande ȝode. Ande whanne þo companyes seghe þis þat Poule did, þo men of Lycaonye lyfte vppehyȝed S.P.D. þer voyce & saide, Goddes ben comenGodes arme is come, S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. vs in lyknes of men. Ande þei calledcleped S.P.D. Barnaban Iouem ande Pouleafter poule erasure of 3 letters, C. Mercurye, for he was ledar ande spekar of þo worde. Ande þo preste of Iouys, þo whiche was bifore þo 17cytee, broghte bulles ande corownes bifore þo1717-17 om. S.P.D. brynggynk bolles & crownes in marg. 1st corr. marked to be inserted after puple, S; P. reads, bifore þe ȝatis wiþ þe peple brynggynge bolles & trowes. ȝhates, andeerased, S. wiþ þo puple he wolde haue done sacrifice vntoto S.P.D. Poule ande Barnabas. Ande whanne þo apostuls harden þis, þei scherekitte S.P.D.
þer cloþes ande stirtte forþe amonge þo multitude, criande ande sayande, A, men, wherto done ȝhe þus? We ben bot dedly men lyke to ȝowe, schewande ande prechande vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe forto turne ȝowe fro þise vayne þinges vntoto S.P.D. þo lifande God, þat made heuen ande erthe, þo see ande alle þat ben in hem: þo whiche God in generacyones bifore lete gentileson erasure, different ink, C. to enter hise ways. Ande noghte wiþouten testymonye lefte he hymseluen, wele doande, ande gifande raynes from heuen ande fruteful tymes, & fillande ȝoure hertes wiþ mete ande gladnes. Ande ȝitte whanne þei saide þise, vneþes myghte þei stille þo companyse þat ne þei wolde sacrifice vntoto S.P.D. hem. Bot summe Iewes comen in þo mene tyme from Antyoche ande Yconye, ande made illeyuel S.P.D. suggestion to þo puple of Poule, ande þei stoned hym, ande drowe hym wiþouten þo cyte, supposande þat he was dede. Ande whanne þo discipuls comen abowte hym, he roos vppe ande entered into þo cyte: ande in þo daye after he wenteȝede S.P.D. wiþ Barnabas into Derben. Ande whanne þei hade preched vntoto S.P.D. þat cyte, ande haden tawghte many, þei wente agayne vntoto S.P.D. Lyster ande Yconye ande vntoto S.P.D. Antyoche, ande confermed þo sowles of þo discipuls, ande made exhortacyone to hem þat þei schulde dwelle in þo faiþe, ande tolde vntoto S.P.D. hem þat hit bihoues by many tribulacyones to enter into þo kengedam of Godheuene S.P.D..
Andenew paragraph with initial, C. no break in S.P.D. whanne þo apostuls haden ordeynde vntoto S.P.D. hem by syngulere chirches prestes, ande whanne þei hade preyed ande fasted, þei comended hem vntoto S.P.D. God in whom þei trowed. Ande þo apostulspostuls S.P. passandepassyn S.P.D. þurghe Psidiesydya D. sydya with per added above the line, S; persydya P., þei& þei S.P. come into Pamphilye. Ande þei speke Goddes worde in Pergen, ande fro þeþenþeyn S.D. þyn P. þeiþeyn P. wente vntoin to S.P. Atthlaye; ande fro þeþenþeyn S.P. þen D. þei schipped into Antioche, where þei wore bitaken to þo grace of God into þo warke þat þei hade fulfilled. Ande whanne þei wore comen þider ande hade gaderd togider þo
disciplesdisciples of holy om. S.P.D. of holy chirchechurche þt byleuyd S.P.D., þei tolde how myche God hadehaþ P. done wiþ hem, ande how þat God hadeom. S.P. haþ D. opunde vntoto S.P.D. þo nacyons þo ȝate of þo faiþe. Ande þei dwelled a longe tyme wiþ þo disciples.
Andenew paragraph with initial, S.P.D. ye xv co in a XVIth cent. hand, S. Cm 15m in a late hand in marg., C. summe þat comen from þo Iewrye tawghte ande preched vntoto S.P.D. þe breþer ande saide, Bot if ȝhe be circumcydid efter þo custome of Moysi, ȝhe maye noghte be saue. Ande a grete sedicyon was made vntoto S.P.D. Poule ande Barnabas agaynes hem; ande Poule saide vntoto S.P.D. hem þat þei schulde abide in þo same trowþe þat þei wore inne. Ande Poule & Barnabas ande summe of oþer disciples ordeynde þat þei schulde goo vntoto S.P.D. þo apostuls ande þo prestes þat wore in Ierusalem to wyte of þis question& þei wente follows, S.P.D.. 9Ande þei, whanne þei wore forþe-ledde of þo disciples99-9 þei were lad forþ of þe churche, þat is, of hem (hem om. S.P.) þat byleuyd S.P.D., þei passed þurghe Fenyce ande Samarye, tellande þo conuersacyonesa expunged, S. conuersyoun P. ande þo lifynge of nacyons: ande þei made myche ioye to alle þo breþer. Ande whanne þei come to Ierusalem, þei wore receyued of þo congregacyone ande of þo apostuls ande þe eldars, ande þei tolde what God hade done wiþ hem. Ande þanne ros vppe summe of þo heresieheresie of þo om. S.P.D. of þo Pharisees, þe whiche trowed, ande saide þat hit byhouedbyhoueþ S.P.D. hem fortoto S.P.D. be circumcided ande alsso forto bidde to kepe þo lawe of Moysi. & þo apostuls ande þo eldars wente togider to auyseauyse hem S.P. of þis worde. Ande whanne grete aschinge ande sechinge was of þis þinge, Peter ros vppe, ande saide vntoto S.P.D. hem, Ȝhe men, oure breþer, ȝhe knowe þat frofro þe P. elder days in vs God haues chosen bi my mouþe nacyonsþe n. S.P.D. to here þo worde of þo gospelle ande forto trowe. Ande he, þat knewe þo herttes of alle, bere wytnes vnto þis, gifande vntoto S.P.D. hem þo Holygoste as to vs. Ande noghte he departed (or, made difference) bitwixe hem ande vs, clensandehe clensynge S.P.D. in þo faiþe þo hertes of hem. Bot nowe þanneom. S.P.D. wharto tempte ȝhe to laye þo ȝoke ande charge vponon S.P.
þo heued of þo disciples, þat noþernoþur we noþur oure fadrus S.P.D. oure faders nor we myghte bere? Botby þe grace of oure lord iesu crist follows, S.P.D. we hopen forto be saued by þo grace of oure Lorde Iesu Criste, as þei ben. Andesoþly S.P.D. alle þo multitude was stille; ande þei harden Barnaban ande Poule tellande& tellynge S.P.D. how myche God hade done merueyles ande tokens in nacyons by hem. Ande after þat þei wore stille, Iames ansuered ande saide, Ȝhe menmyn P., dere breþer, heres me. Symon has tolde vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe onne what maner firste God visit[ed]visit C. vysyted S.P.D., to take þoom. S.P.D. puple of nacyones vntoto S.P.D. his name. Ande to hym accorden þo wordes of þo prophetes: as hit es wryten, Efter þise I schal go agayn, ande I schal edifye agayne þo tabernacle of Dauid, þo whiche es fallen; ande I schal biggebylde S.P.D. agayn þo broken of it, ande I schal vpraiseup rere S.P.D. hit: þat þo remnaunte of men seche þerþe S.P.D. Lorde, ande alle nacyons vpon whom es incalledin cleped S.P.D. my name, sais þe Lorde doande þis. For fro þoom. S.P.D. worlde es knowne vntoto S.P.D. God his warke. Wharfore I iuge hem þat ben turned vntoto S.P.D. God offe nacyonsoffe nacyons om. S.P.D. noghte fortoto S.P.D. be vneside: bot forto write vntoto S.P.D. hem þat þei abstene hem fro contamynacyone of mawmetes, ande fro fornycacione, ande fro þo suffocate, ande blode. Forom. S.P.D. Moyses fro olde tymes has in syngulere cytes þat prechen hym in synagoges, where he es redde bi iche sabbate. Thanne hit liked vntoto S.P.D. þo apostuls ande to þo elders, wiþ alle þo chirche (or, congre|gacyone), forto chese summe of hem, ande tofor to S.P.D. sende vntoto S.P.D. Antioche wiþ Poule ande Barnabas; ande þei chesedchose S.P.D. Iudas þat was surnamedsurname S.P. Barsabas, ande Sylam, þo whiche wore þo firste amonge þo breþer: writande bi þo hendehond S.D. lond P. of hem, Þo apostuls ande þo elder breþer to hem þat ben at Antyoche ande Sirie ande Cilyce breþer of nacyones, gretesgretynge S.P.D. wele (or, ȝernesdesyrynge S.P.D. hele): For þat we haue harde þat summe of oures goande fro vs haues droueddisturbyd S.D. dysturblyd P. ȝow wiþ wordes, turnande ȝoure
hertessoulis S.P.; toþe whuche we sente (wente P) not S.P.D. whom we bade noghte; ande þerfore hit plesed to vs to gader vs in one ande forto chese men ande sende vntoom. S.P.D. ȝowe wiþ oureȝoure S.P.D. dere breþerbroþer S.P.D. Poule & Barnaban, þo whiche ben men þat han sette þer lyfes for þo name of oure Lorde Iesu Criste. Andeom. S.P.D. þerfore we sentte vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe Iudas ande Silam, þo whiche alsso schal telle þo samename P. vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe, þatsoþly S.P.D. hit es sene to þo Holygoste [ande vs]S.P.D. no more charge fortoto S.P.D. layseye P. no more charge repeated in the margin, 1st corr. S. vponup crossed through, D. on S.P. ȝowe þanne þise þat ben nedfulle; þat ȝhe abstene ȝowe fro þinges þat ben offerde vnto maw|metes, ande fro sacrifice of ydolatrye, ande fro blode þat es suffocate, ande fro fornycacyone; ande þat ȝhe wille noghte werebe crossed out, follows, S. done vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe, dos hit noghte vntoto S.P.D. an-oþer; ande if ȝhe kepe ȝowe fro þise, ȝhe schal wele do. Fares wele. Ande Poule, Barnabas, Iudas ande Sylas wenteþt wente S.P.D. fro þo apostuls, ande kome vntoto S.P.D. Antioche; ande whanne þei haden gaderd þoa S.P.D. multitude ofof þo disciples om. S.P.D. þo disciples, þei toke hem þo epistel; þo whiche whanne þei haden redde, þei ioyed in a grete ioye for þo comforþe þat þei hade. Ande Iudas ande Sylas, for þat þei wore prophetes ande prechors, wiþ myche spekynge þei comforþed þo breþer ande confermed hem. Ande hit bisemed vntogood to S.P.D. Syle to dwelle þore, ande only Iudas wente agayne into Ierusalem. Ande Poule ande Barnabas dwelled atte Antioche, techande ande prechande, wiþ oþer discipuls of Criste, Goddes worde. Ande efter summe days Powle saide vntoto S.P.D. Barnabas, Turne we agayne, ande visite we oure breþer bi alle þo cytes in þo whiche we han preched Goddes worde, ande see we how þei hafe hem. Ande Barnabas wolde take Iohn wiþ hem, þo whiche es surnamed Marchus. Ande Poule preyed Barnaban, þat he þat departed fro hem fro Pamphilye ande wolde noghte go wiþ hem in warke of þo gospelle, þat he schulde noghte be taken wiþ hem. Ande so amonge hem was made discencyone, in so myche þat
þei departed otwynneatweynne P., & Barnabas toke wiþ hym Marchus ande schippidepide on erasure, C. vntoto S.P.D. Cipirsequitur epistola follows, C..
Andenew paragraph with initial, C. Poule toke wiþ hym Sylam ande wente his waye, whanne he was bytakentaken S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. þo grace of God of þo breþer. Ande he wente þurghe Sirye ande Cylyce, confermande þo congregacyone of holy chirche, & bade hem þat þei schulde kepe þo biddynges of þo apostuls ande of þoom. S.D. eldars.
AndeCm 16m in a later hand, in marg., C. initials in S.P.D. ye xvi co in a XVIth cent. hand, S. whanne þei hade gone abowte þise nacyons, he come vntoin to S.P.D. Derben ande Lystram: ande þer was a discipul, þat was calledcleped S.P.D. Tymothe, þat was a trewe wydowe sone; bot his fadir was a panyme. To hym bere trewegood S.P.D. wytnes þoo þat wore in Lystris ande Yconye. Hym wolde Poule þat [he]S.P.D. schulde go with hym; ande hetoke, expunged, follows, C. toke hym ande circumcyded hym for þo Iewes þat wore in þo places: for alle wiste wele þat hise fadir was a gentile (or, a paynyme). Ande as þei passed bi cytes, þei tawghte hem þo techynges þat wore ordeynde of þo apostuls, whanne þei wore at Ierusalem. Ande þo chirches wore confermed in þo faiþe, ande encresced in nowmbur alleeche S.P.D. daye. & as þei passed þurghe Phrigye ande Galacegalacye kyngdom S.P.D., þei wore letted of þo Holygoste to speke Goddes worde in Asye; ande whanne þei wore comen vntoto S.P.D. Misy, þei assayde to passe by Bethenye; ande þei wore letted bi þo spiritte of Iesu. Ande whanne þei passed Misye, þei wenteom. P. vntoto S.P.D. Troyden. Ande in þo nyghte was a visione schewed vntoto S.P.D. Poule, þat a man of Macidonye stode, ande preyed hym, ande sayde, Go into Macedonye, ande helpe vs. Ande ononeeuene S.P.D. as he hade sene þis vision, we þoghte to go into Macedonye, for we were certayne þat God called vs to preche to hem. Ande we schipped from Troade, ande righte course we come vntoto S.P.D. Samotrache ande þo nexte daye to Neapolym; ande fro þeþenþen S.P.D. vnto Philyppisto phyppys S.P.D., þo whiche es þe firste of þo contree of Macedonye, þo cyte of ColeyneVulg. prima partis Macedoniæ civitas, colonia.: ande we wore in þis cyte certayn days techande.
Ande in þo day of sabbate we wente wiþouten þo ȝhate biside þo flode, where preynge semed fortoto S.P.D. be; ande þere we sete, and speke vntoto S.P.D. wymmen þat þider come togider. Ande a womman whos name was Lydda, a purpurere of þo cyte of Thiathire, þo whiche worschipped God, herde vs: whos herte God opunde, fortoto S.P.D. biholde vntoto S.P.D. þo þinges þat wore saide of Poule. Ande whanne scheȝhe P. was baptised, [ande]S.P.D. in C. hire howse, sheȝhe P. preyed, sayande, If ȝhe deme me trewe vnto God, enteres into my howse, ande dwelles þere. Ande scheȝhe P. gartteconstreyned S.P.D. vs. Ande hit bifelle, whanne we wente forto preye, þat a wenche þat hade a spiritte of a wycche mette vs, þo whiche gafe grete wynnynge vntoto S.P.D. [hire]S.P.D. þer C. lordes by dyuynynge. Scheȝhe P. folowed Poule ande vs, criande ande sayande, Þise men ben þo seruantes of þo highe God, þo whiche schewen to ȝowe þo waye of hele. Þis sche did many days; ande Poule mournande for hire, he& S.P.D. turned hym ande spakeseyde to S.P.D. vnto þo spiritte, I bidde þe in þo name of Iesu Criste to go oute fro hire. Ande þo yuel spiritte wente oute offro S.P.D. hire in þo same howre. Ande whanne hire lordes see, þat þe spiritte of [hire]S.P.D. þeire C. was away, þei toke Poule ande Sylam, ande ledde hem forþe into þo marketchepynge S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. þo princes, ande schewed hem to þo magistrates, sayande, Þise men sturbulendisturbeþ S.P.D. ande deceyueande deceyue om. S.P.D. alle oure cytee, for þei ben Iewes, ande þei tellen a maner þat es noghte leffulle to vs to receyue ornoþur S.P.D. do, siþen we ben Romaynes. Ande þo puple ranne agayn hem, ande þo magistrates, [ande]S.P.D. wiþ C. þerþe (here D) cloþis of hem were tore S.P.D. cloþes [wore] torne, ande [þei] comanded hem fortoto S.P.D. be beten wiþ ȝerdes. Ande whanne þei hade beten hem longe, ande made hem fulle of wondesof woundis repeated in marg., 1st corr. S., þei put hem in prisone, ande bade vntoto S.P.D. þo kepar of þo prison þatþo þat C. he schulde bestlybysyly S.P.D. kepe hem. Ande he, efter þat he was bodencomawndid þus S.P.D., he putte hem in þo inner prisone, ande he strayned þer fete in a tree. Bot atte þoom. S.P.D. mydnyghte
Poule ande Silas 1lowtande vnto God loued hym11-1 honoured & preysed god S.P.D. in alle his sonde, ande þoo þat wore in kepynge in þo prisone harde hem; ande sodenly was made a grete erþe-schake, so myche þat þo grownde of þo prisone stiredquoke S.P.. [& onone wore opun alle þo dores & alle þer bondes wore lowsed.]S.P.D.Ande heom. S.P. þat kepped þo prisone, [whanne he saw þo ȝhates opun of þo prisone,]S.P.D. drowe oute a swerde, ande wolde haue slayne hymseluen, supposande þat alle þo prisons wore gone oute. Ande Poule cried vntoto S.P.D. hym wiþ a grete voycea leaf missing in D, chapp. xvi. 28-xvii. 6. ande saide, Do þe no harmenoon arme P.: for we alle ben here. Ande he toke lyghte, ande enterde into þo prisone, ande quakande he felle downe to þe fete of Poule ande Silas; ande heom. P. broghte hem forþe ande saide, Leue lordes, whatte bihoues me fortoto S.P. do þat I myghte be saufe? Ande þei saide vntoto S.P. hym, Trowe in oure Lorde Iesu, ande þow schal be saufe ande al þi howse. Ande þei preched vntoto S.P. hym þo worde of God ande to alle þat wore in his howse. Ande þo kepar of þo prisone toke hem in þo same houre of þo nyghte, ande weschewosche S. þer wondes; ande onone he was baptised, ande alleom. S.P. hise howse alsso. Ande efter þat he hade broghte hem into hise howse, he sette a borde to hem, ande heom. S.P. was gladed wiþ alle [his]his S. at his P. house, trowande to God. Ande whanne dayeþe day S. þat d. P; erasure of 4 letters before daye, C. was comen þo magistrates sente baylys (or, bedels), sayandes. þat P., Late þoo men goo. & þo kepar of þo prisone tolde þis vntoom. P. to S. Poule, þat þo magistrates han sende þat ȝe ben laten go: ande þerfore gos nowe forþe in pees. Ande Poule saide to hem, Þei hauen beten vs 17vnrightly ande vndampned1717-17 opynlyche & indempnyd S.P., ande we ben men of Rome [þat þei haue putte in prisone]S.P., andeande now S.P. priuely þei putte vs oute; noghte so, bot come þei hemseluen ande putte þei vs oute. Ande þo bedels (or, þo baylyes)gloss om. S.P. tolde þise wordes to þo magistrates: ande þoom. S. magistrates, whanne þei harden þat þei wore Romaynes, dredde hem; ande come
vntoto S.P. hem ande preyde hem þat þei schulde go oute of þo cyte. Ande þei outegoande of þo prisone þei enterde into Lyddam: ande whanne þei sawe þoþer S. her P. breþer, þei tolde hem whatte God hade done wiþ hem, ande comforþed þo breþer ande wente onoute S.P. þer way.
AndeCm 17 in marg. in a later hand, C. xvii c. in a XVIth century hand, S. whanne þei hade gone bi Amphibolym ande Appollonye, þei come to Thessalony, were a synagoge of Iewes was: ande Poule, as he was wonte, enterde vntoto S.P. þem, ande by þre sabbates he preched to hem of holy scriptures, declarande ande shewande, þat hit bihoued Criste to suffur ande to rise fro þo deþe; ande þat he þis esabove the line, 1st corr. S. Iesusiesu crist P. crist in marg. 1st corr. S. whom I schewe vnto to S.P. ȝowe. Ande summe of hem [trowed]S.P. ioyed C., ande wore ioyned vntoafter vnto erasure of circa 3 letters, C. to S.P. Poule ande to Sylas; ande alsso of þo gentyles grete multitude, ande many& many twice, S.P. noubul wymmen. Ande summe of þo enuyous Iewes token summe illeyuel S.P. men of þoerasure of about 5 letters follows, C. puple, ande gadured a grete companye, ande stiredmeuyd S.P. þo cyte agayne þo apostuls, ande wente vntoto S.P. þo house of Iason forto brynge hem forþe vntoto S.P. þo puple. Ande whanne þei fonde noghte hem, þei drowe Iason ande summe breþer vntoto S.P. þo princes of þo cite, criande ande sayande, Þise ben þei þat stirenmeueþ S.P. alle þo worlde 15ande hider þei come1515-15 om. S.P.; andeD. begins here. he þis Iasone receyued hem: ande alle þise done agayne þo ordynawnce of þoexpunged S. om. P. Cesar, ande sayne þat þer es an|oþer kenge þat highte Iesu. Ande þei stired gretely þo puple ande þo princes of þo cites þat harde þise þinges. Ande whanne Iason ande oþer hade made satisfaccyon (or, ex|cusinge) to þo princes of þo cyte, þei lete hem go. Ande þo breþer [on]oneanone S.P.D. in þo nyghte letelede P. lede with d on erasure, S. Poule ande Sylam into Ber[o]amS.P.D. berbam C. beroam tessalonye repeated in marg. 1st corr. S.; ande whanne þei wore comen þider, þei enterde into þo synagoge of þo Iewes. Ande þise men of Beroam
wore þo moste noubul of þoo þat ben atte Thessalonye, þo whiche toke Goddes worde wiþ grete desire, iche daye ransakande þo holy scriptures, wheþer hit wore so as hit was preched to hem. Ande many trowed of hem; ande grete multitude alsso of honeste wymmen þat were gentyles (þat es, of þo nacyones þat wore calledcleped S.P.D. gentyles)gloss underlined, S.P., ande many men alsso. Ande whanne þo Iewes þat wore in Thessalony knewe þat Goddes worde was preched in Beroam of Poule, þei come þider 4ande stirde ande stourebulde44-4 meuynge & sturblynge S.P. myche of þo puple. Ande onone þo breþer lefte Poule, þat he myghte goo vntoto S.P. þo see: and Syle ande Tymoþe dwelled þere. Ande þo breþer þat wente wiþ Poule þei broghte hym to Athenys; ande he bade hem þat als sone as þei come to Syle ande Tymothe þat þei schulde saye hem hastely to come to h[y]mS.P.D. hem C.. Ande Poule whilestewhyles S.P. he abode hem in Athenys, his spiritte was gretely stired in hym, for he sawe þat þo cytee was gifen to ydolatrye. Ande he disputed in þo synagoge wiþ þo Iewes ande þo dwellandeþo dwellande om. P., in þo market, by alle þo days, to hem þat þer were P. þt herde D, with herde crossed through and þer were in marg. 1st corr. S.þat wore negheþat þer were P. þt herde D, with herde crossed through and þer were in marg. 1st corr. S.. Ande& soþly P, with soþly in marg. 1st corr. S. summe Epichurens ande Stoycensscoyty P. ande philysofers disputed wiþ hym. Ande summe saide, What wole he þis sower of wordes saye? ande oþer saide, Hit bisemes þat he es a schewar of newe fendes: ande þis þei saide for he schewed vntoto S.P. hem Iesu ande þoom. P. resur|reccyone. & þei toke hym, ande ledde hym to þo Ariopage (þat es, to a strete of Athenys, where þo philisofers studied), ande þei saide, Maye we knowe þis newe doctrine þat þow spekes of? Newe þinges þow bringes in oure eres, ande þerfore wole we knowe what þei may be. Ande þo men of Athenys & oþer comelynges þat dwelled þer, gafe þer ententetente S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. noghte elles bot forto say or fortoto S.P.D. here summe newe þinge. Ande Poule stode vppe in myddesmyddyl S.P. of þat townetowne or om. S.P.D. (or, strete), ande saide, Ȝhe men Atthenyenses,
hit bisemes vntoto S.P.D. me þat ȝhe ben in alle þinges as super|sticyouse men (þat es, as men of vayne relygion, or elles, gifen to myche vntoto S.P.D. vayne þinges). For I haue passed ande seneseynge S.P.D. ȝoure mawmetes, & I fonde an auter in þo whiche werewas S.P.D. writen þise wordes, To þo vnknowne god. Ande þerfore þat ȝhe worschipe vnknowande, þat schewey schewe P. I vnto ȝowe. Þoom. S.P.D. God þat made þo worlde ande alle þinges þat ben in þo worldeheere follows, D, crossed through, S., heom. S.P.D. siþen he es Lordehe is lord twice, S.P.D. of heuen ande erþe, he wonnes noghtein marg. later hand, S. in temples made wiþ hendehonde S.P.D.; nornoþer S.P.D. he es worschipped wiþ mennes hende for þat he has nede of any þinge þat man dos, siþen he gifes vntoto S.P.D. alleerasure of 2 letters follows, C. life, ande wynde, & inspiringe, ande alle oþer þinges; ande of one þingecrossed through, S. om. P. he maked alle mankynde forto inhabyte on alle þo face of þe erthe, ordeynande cer|tayne tymes ande termestermy S.P. (or, endes) of þer habitacyone; forto seche þer God, If in aunter þei may drawe hym to hem or fynde hym, þofe he be noghte ferre fro icheone of vs: for in hym we life, ande in hym we stiremeue S.P.D., ande in hym we ben; as summe of ȝoure poetes has sayde, Ande we ben alsso hise kynne. Ande siþen we ben þo kynne of God, vs owe noghte to suppose þat þat purtenes vnto God es lyke to golde, ande syluer, or to stone of þo crafte of grauynge, ande þat comes of mannes þenkyngeþinkynge P.D. ande of mannes hondewarkebe lyke to follows, P, in marg. 1st corr. S.. Andeerased S. om. P. God þat despices þo tymes of þis ignorawnce, nowe he schewes to men þat icheone, whersoeuereuer om. S.P.D. þei be, do penaunce: for þat he has ordeynde a daye, in þo whiche he schal deme alle þo worlde in euenhede, gifande faiþe vntoto S.P.D. alle in a man þat he raysedreryd S.P.D. frofro þe S.P.D. deþe. Ande whanne þei harde þo resurreccione [of dede men]S.P.D., summe scorned hym; ande summe saide, We schal here þe efte of þis. Ande so Poule wente fro þo myddesmyddyl S.P.D. of hem. Ande summe wente wiþ Poule, ande trowed vntoto S.P.D. hym: in whomwhuche S.P.D. was Dyonyse þo mayster of þo
philysophers, ande a womman þat was calledcleped S.P.D. Damarise, ande manyom. S.P.D. oþer wiþ hemEpistola follows, C..
AfterCm 18m in a later hand, C. The xviii chaptyr in a XVIth cent. hand, S. þise Powle wente fro Athenys, ande come vntoto S.P.D. Corynthum. Ande þer he fonde a Iewe, ande hise name was Aquila, þat late come fro Ytalye wiþ Priscillepryschest P. his wife, for Claudynesclaudyus S.P.D. hade bidenboden S.P.D. þat alle þe Iewes schulde goo oute of Rome: ande vntoto S.P.D. hem hein marg., C. wente; ande for he was offe þo same crafte þat þei wore of, he dwelled wiþ hem ande wroghte; ande þei were of þo crafte of makynge of tabernacles (or, of cordes ande ropes). Ande he disputed in þo synagoge in iche sabbotehalyday S.P.D., ande euermore in his saynge he menged ande sette þo name of Iesu, ande he ammonested þe Iewes ande þo Grekes. Ande whanne Sylas ande Tymothe weren comen fro Macedonye, Poule was besy in prechinge, berande wytnes vntoto S.P.D. þo Iewes þat Iesu Criste was. Ande whanne þo Iewes agaynsaide Poule wordes [&]S.P.D. blasphemedin marg., C., he schoke his cloþes ande saide, Ȝoure blode be vponon S.P.D. ȝoure heuedheuedes S.P., for I am clene of þis: I schal go to þo naciones. Ande he wente fro þeþenþen S.P., ande enterde into þo house of one þat was calledcleped S.P.D. Tytus, þo whiche was rightwise ande worschip|pande God. Ande his howse was ioyned vntoto S.P.D. þo synagoge. Ande Crispus, þat was maister of þo synagoge, trowed vnto to S.P.D. God wiþ alle hise howse; ande many of þoof þo om. S.P. þo om. D. men of Corynthi þat harde Poule trowed, ande wore baptized. Ande God saidegod seyde repeated in marg. 1st corr. S. by a visione in þo nyghte vntoto S.P.D. Poule, Drede noghte, bot speke, ande be noghte stille; for-whi I am wiþ þe, ande noneno þing S.P.D. schal be putte to þe þat schal noye þe: for myche folke es to me ande myne in þis cyte. Ande Poule sete þer a ȝhere ande sexe moneþes, techande amonge hem þo worde of God. Ande whanne Gallyo was þe proconsul of Achaye, þo Iewes ros wiþ one hertte agaynes Poule, ande ledde hym toin to S.P. þo sete of þo domes-man, sayande, þat he þis agaynes
þo lawe teches men to worschippe God. Ande as Poule biganne to opun his mouþe to speke, Gallyo saide vntoto S.P.D. þoom. S.D. Iewes, Ȝhe men, Iewes, if hit wore any wikked þinge or grete mysdede, rightly schulde I susteyne (or, suffure) ȝowe. Bot if hit be bot questions of þo worde ande names of ȝoure lawe, auyse ȝoure-seluen, for I wole noghte be iuge of þiseþis wordes S.P.D.. Ande he made hem goon erasure in different ink, C. from hise demynge-place. Ande þo Iewes token one Sostynen, þat was prince of þo synagoge, ande þei smote hym bifore hise sete of dome. Ande Gallyo roghte þouȝt D. r on erasure, S. noghte þeroffe, (andeor S.P.D. toke no kepe þeroffe.) Ande Poule [soþly þat ȝit suffrede many daies]S.P.D. made his haylsinge to þo& toke his leue (lyue D) at his S.P.D. breþer, ande schipped vntoto S.P.D. Sirye, & wiþ hym ȝode Priscille ande Aquila, þo whiche Priscille hade dodded his heued; for so hade he vowed. Ande Poule come vntoto S.P.D. Ephesum, ande lefte hem þere; ande he enterde into þo synagoge ande disputed wiþ þo Iewes. Ande þo disciples preyde þat he lenger tyme schulde dwelle. Bot he assented noghte, bote bade hem fare wele, ande saide, Efte I schal come to ȝow, if God wole. Ande so he wente fro Ephesum. Ande goande to Cesarye, he haylsedblessed S.P.D. þo chirche þat þore was, ande so he wenteȝede S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. Antioche. Ande whanne he hade ben þore a certayne tyme, he ȝode his waye, ande wente by ordure þurghe þo contree of Galace ande Phrigye, confermande alle þo discipuls. & a Iewe whos name was Apollo, of Alexander borne, an eloquente man ande conyngein follows, S.P.D. scriptures, come vntoto S.P.D. Ephesum. He þis was tawghte þo waye of God; ande he was feruente in spiritte, ande teched besily þinges þat wore of Iesu Criste; ande onely he knewe þo bapteme of Ioon. He& he S.P. þis biganne tristely to dotrustely to do twice, P. in þo synagoge. Ande whanne Priscille ande Aquyla harde hym, þei toke hym vntoto S.P.D. hem, ande besily expowned to hym þo waye of God. Ande whanne he woldeþei wolden P. go vntoto S.P.D. Achaye, þo breþer wrote vntoom. S.P.D. þo discipuls, þat þei schulde receyue hym: ande
whanne he come þider, he gafe ande speke myche vntoto S.P.D. hem þat trowed; ande gretely he ouercome þo Iewes, opunly schewande bi scriptures þat Iesu Criste was.
AndeCm 19m in later hand, on erasure, C. The xix co in XVIth cent. hand, S. hit bifelle, whanne Apollo was at Corynthy, þat Poule hade gone þo ouer contrees, ande kome vntoto S.P.D. Ephesum; ande he fonde summe of þo disciples, ande saide vntoto S.P.D. hem, If ȝhewe P. haue taken þo Holygoste trowande? Ande þei sayde to hym, Bot we haue noghte harde ifom. S.P.D. þo Holygoste es. Ande Poule saide, In whom þanne ben ȝhe baptised? Ande þei saiden, In þo bapteme of Iohn. Poule saide, Iohn baptised in bapteme of penaunce þo pupul, techande, þat þei schulde trowe in hym þat was to come efter hym, þat es, in Iesu. Ande whanne þei hade harde þis, þei wore baptised in þo name of oure Lorde Iesu Criste. Ande whanne Poule hade laide on hem hise hendehonde S.P.D., þo Holygoste come vponon S.P.D. hem; ande þei speke wiþ tunges ande prophecyed. Ande alle þo men wore nerehandeny honde S.P.D. twelue. Ande Poule entered into þo synagoge, ande tristely he speke by þree monythis, disputande ande techande of þo kengdome of God. Ande for summe were indurate ande wolde noghte trowe, waryandecursynge S.P.D. þo way of God bifore þo multitude, he, goande fro hem, departed þo discipuls, disputande iche daye in þo scole of a tyraunte fro þo houre of sexteþe sixþe S.P.D. to þo houre of tenne. Ande þis he dide bi twoo ȝere; in so myche þat men þat wonned in Asye harde þo worde of God, boþe þo Iewes ande gentiles. Ande many vertewes did God by þo hendehonde S.P.D. of Poule: in so myche þat men broghten sudaries [ande]S.P.D. girdels from hise body, ande layde hem vponon S.P.D. þo seke, ande þe sekenes wente fro hem, ande þo wikked spirittes wente oute of menhem S.P.. Ande summe of þo exorcistes of þo Iewes þat wente aboute, assayde forto calle þo name of Iesu vponon S.P.D. hem þat hade yuel spirittes, & saide, We coniure ȝowe bi Iesu whom Poule preches. Ande þer wore in a house of a Iewe, þat was prince of prestes, seuen sones þat diden þis. Ande þo wikked spirittewicked spirite repeated in marg. 1st corr. S. ansuerande
saide, Iesu I knewe, ande Poule I knoweknewe S.P.D.; bot whowhat S.P.D. ben ȝhe? Ande þo man in whom þoþe wicked S.P.D. fende was lepe to hem, ande heom. P. hade maisterschippe of boþe, ande was myghtye agayne, in so myche þat wonded ande naked þei fledde fro þoþt S.P.D. house. Ande þis was made knowne vntoto S.P.D. alle þe Iewes ande gentiles þat dwelled atte Ephesy; ande grete drede felle vponon S.P.D. alle hem, ande þei loued þo name of oure Lorde Iesu. & many of þo trowandeþat troweden S.P.D. come, schriuande, ande schewande þer dedes. Ande many alssoom. S.P.D. þatþt byfore S.P.D. vsed curiostes broghte þer bokes, ande brente hem bifore alle: ande whanne þei hade acownted þo price of hem, þei fonde money of fifty thowsande penyes (þat es, so myche wore þei worþe in price). Ande so wexe þo worde of God ande was confermed. Ande whan þise wore ended, Poule purposed in spiritte to go vntoby S.P.D. Macedonye ande Achaye, ande so forto goo vntoto S.P.D. Ierusalem, ande saide to hymseluen, þat efter þat I haue ben þore, me bihoues to see Rome. Ande heom. S.P.D. sende two of þoo þat mynisterde untoto S.P.D. hym, Tymothe ande Eraste, into Macedonye, ande he dwelled vntoto S.P.D. a certayne tyme in Asye. Ande in þat tyme was grete turbacione of þo waye of God. For one, whos named in the margin, S. was Demetrye, þat was a siluer-maker, ande made þo thabernacles of þo goddesþe goddesse repeated in the marg. 1st corr. S. Dyane of syluer, he gafe vntoto S.P.D. þo warke-men grete money, ande calledcleped S.P.D. hem togider, ande saide vntoto S.P.D. hem þat wore of þatþe P. crafte, Ȝe men, ȝhe wyten wele þat of þis crafte es oure getynge ande lyuynge. Ande ȝhe seen ande heren, þat noghte onely at Ephesum, bot alsso alle þo multitude of Asye, he þis Poule bi his techinges haues turned, ande teches, þat þoo ben noghte goddes þat ben madewiþ hendehonde S.P.D.: ande noghte onely schal oure crafte perische ande be in reproue to vs; bot alsso þo temple of þo grete Dyane, oure goddes, schal be destroyed ande broghte to noghte, ande hire mageste schal be vndone, þo whiche alle Asie ande alle þo worlde worschippes. Ande whanne þise
wordes woren harde, þei wore fulfilledfyllyd S.D. wiþin S.P.D. ire, ande þei cryed, sayande, Þo grete Dyane of Ephesye. Ande þo cyte was fulfilled wiþ confusione: ande wiþ one hertte þei made an hastines into þo spectacle; ande þore þei toke Gaye ande Aristarke, men of Macedonye, þo felowes of Poule. Ande Poule wolde haue gone into þo puple, ande þo discipuls wolde noghte suffure hym goto goo S.P.D.. Ande summe of þo princes of Asye, þat wore hise frendes, sente vntoto S.P.D. hym 5ande preyed hym55-5 om. S.P.D. þat he schulde [not]S.P.D. sytte atte þo spectacle. Ande summe cried ande saide oþerwise; ande þo chirche was confused, ande many wiste noghte for whatte cause þei wore comen togider. Ande þei wiþdrowe Alexander fro þo company, þe Iewes puttande hym forþe. Ande Alexander made token of cylence wiþ hise honde, in wille fortoto S.P.D. schewe hise skille to þo puple. Ande onone as þei knewe þat he was a Iewe, onone was botit S.P.D. as one voice of alle, fully two houres cryande, Þo grete Dyane of Ephesye. Ande whanne þe scribe hade stilled þo com|panysecumpanye S.P.D., he saide, Ȝhe men of Ephesie, whatte man es þat þat knowes noghte þo cytee of Ephesie worschippar of þo grete Diane, ande of Iouys hire childe? Ande siþen none may agaynesay þis, hit bihoues ȝowe to be stille, ande to do no þinge folily. For ȝe han broghte hider þise men, þat noþer are fowndenfoule S.P.D. giltye, nor blasphemaresblasphemys S.P.D. of ȝoure goddes. Bot if Demetryus, ande þo warke-men þat ben wiþ hym, haue any cause agaynes any, gider hem wiþoute-forþeCf. Vulg. conventus forenses aguntur.; ande þerom. S.P.D. ben proconsuls, late hem accuse þem togider bifore hem. Ande if any oþer þinge be þat ȝhehe P. asche, in þo lawful chirche hit may be assoyled. Ande we ben in perele to be reprehendid of þo sedicione of þis daye, siþen þere es none blame-worþi, of whom we may gife skille (orof P., wyte) of þis con|course. Ande whanne he hade saide þis, he lefte þo chirche.epistola follows, C.
AndeCm 20m in a later hand, in marg. C. the xx co in a XVIth cent. hand, S. efter þo grete noyse was stilled, Poule calledcleped S.P.D. þo discipuls, ande ammonested hem, ande bade hem fare wele;
ande he wente forþe forto go to Macedonye. Ande whanne he hade gone þoom. D. þylke in marg. 1st corr. S. þylke P. contrees, ande hade ammoneste hem wiþ myche gostly spechespekynge S.P.D., he come vntoto S.P.D. Grece, where, whan he hade ben þree monythes ande schulde hafe schipped into Cyrie, þo Iewes wayted hym; ande he hade cownseile ofbetween of and to erasure with some illegible letters in a later hand, C. summein marg. C. toþat he schulde S.P.D. turne agayne by Macedonye. Ande wiþ hym felyschipte Sosysofy P. Vulg. Sopater Pyrrhi Berœensis., þo fadire of Pirry of Beroens, ande of men offe Thessalonye Aristarcus, ande Secunde, ande Gayus, ande Derbeus, & Tymothe; ande of men of Asye, Titicus ande Trophimus. Þise wente bifore, ande abode atte Troade. Ande we schipped efter þoo days of aȝym from Philippis, ande we come vntoto S.P.D. hem toof S.P.D. Troade in fyue days; ande þere we dwelled seuen days. Ande in one daye of þo sabbote, whanne we come fortoto S.P.D. breke brede, Poule disputed wiþ hem. Ande for þat he schulde go forþe in þo morneynge, he drowe olonge hise worde vnto þoom. S.P.D. mydnyghte; ande many laumpes wore in þo cynaclesenake S.P., where we were gadired. Ande a ȝenge man, whos name was Eutyce, sete abouen vponon S.P.D. þo wyndowe Ande whanne Poule [hade]S.P.D. longe disputed, ande he was in heuy slepe, he& he S.P.D. felle fro þo thridde cenakil downe, ande was borne vppe ande broghte deade. Ande whanne Poule come vntoto S.P.D. hym, he laye vponon S.P.D. hym, 16ande he clipped hym1616-16 om. S.P.D., ande saide, Besbe ȝe S.P.D. noghte drouedtroublyd S.P.D.; for his sowle es in hym. Ande þanne Poule ȝede, ande breke brede ande ete; ande whan he hade ynowghe spoken, vnto þo day was comen, so he wente forþe hise waye. Ande þo men þat were þer broghte þo childe Eutyceom. S.P.D. lifande, ande þei wore gretely comforþed. Ande we wente intoin S.P.D. aom. S.P.D. schippe ande schipped into Asson, for þer schulde we fynde Poule: for so ordeyned he, forto make hise way bi þo londe. Ande whanne he fonde vs, alssonein asson S.P.D. fro þeþenþeyn S.P. þen D. hewe S.P.D. wente vntoto S.P.D. Mitylene. Ande fro
þeþenþeyn S.P. þen D. we schipped, andein S.P.D. þe nexte daye we come to ContrachyeVulg. contra Chium.; ande þo toþer daye we hauende at Samum; & in þo toþer daye we comen vntoto S.P.D. Milete. For Poule purposed forto ouerschippe Ephesum, þat he schulde noghte be tariedtrayed S.P. in Asye. For he hastud, þat, if hit wore possibul, he myghte make þo day of Pentecoste atte Ierusalem. Ande fro Milete he sente vntoto S.P.D. Ephesum, ande he clepud þo moste worþi of þo chirche. Ande whanne þei were comen vntoto S.P.D. hym, ande þei ande he wore togider, he saide vntoto S.P.D. hem, Ȝhe knowe how I hafe ben wiþ ȝowe in alle tymetymes S.P., fro þe firste daye in þo whiche I enterde into Asye, ande how I haue serued to God in alle mekenes, ande myldnes, & teres, ande temptaciones þat han fallen vntoto S.P.D. me of þo waytynges of þo Iewes: ande how I haue noghte wiþdrawne fro ȝowe any profitabul þinge þat neI ne S.P.D. I haue schewed vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe, ande tawghte ȝowe opunly & bi ȝoure howses, wytnesande to þo Iewes [ande þo folke]S.P.D. into God penaunce, ande faiþe into oure Lorde Iesu Cristeom. S.P.D.. Ande loalso P., I, þat am nowe bownden in spiritte, go into Ierusalem, noghte knowande what schal bifalle to me in hit, bot þat þo Holygoste wytnes to me be alle þo cytes, sayandewittnessynge to me precedes, S.P.D., þat bondes ande tribulaciones abiden me in Ierusalem. Bot I drede no þinge of þise, nor I make my life more preciouse þanne meselfe, whilestewhylys S.P.D. þat I ende my course ande mynisterynge of þo worde, þat I haue taken of oure Lorde Iesu Criste, forto wytnes þo gospelle of þo grace of God. Ande lo, nowe I wote þat ȝhe schal nomore see my face, ȝhe alle, bi whom I haue passed ande preched þo kengedame of God. Ande þerfore I wytnes ȝowe þis daye, þat I am clene fro þo blode of ȝowe alle. Forwhi I haue noghte letted, þat neI ne S.P.D. I haue schewed alle þo counseyle of God to ȝowe. Takes kepe þerfore vntoto S.P.D. ȝoure-seluen ande to alle þo flokke, in þo whiche flokke þo Holygoste haues sette ȝowe bischoppes, forto guuerne his chirche, þe whiche he boghte bi hise owne blode. For I wote þat efter my disses schal
enter rauischande wolueswoluys repeated in marg. 1st corr. S. amongein to S.P.D. ȝowe, ande schal noghte spare vntoto S.P.D. þo flokke of God; ande of ȝoure-seluen schal rise men, spekande mys[turned]S.P.D. þinges, þat þei may lede disciples efter hem. Wharfore bes ware andeware ande om. S.P. waker, ande holdes in mynde þat bi thre ȝere nyghte ande daye I cessed noghte wiþ teeres monestande icheoneeche S.P. of ȝowe. Ande nowe I komaunde ȝowe vntoto S.P.D. God, ande to þe worde of his grace, þo whiche es myghty to edifye, ande forto gife heritage in alle hise haloweshalwyd S.P.D.. SiluerBut syluer S.P.D., nor& S.P.D. golde, or cloþe 11þat ȝoures was, I haue noghte ȝernede, ȝhe wote wele: forwhi þat was nede to me ande vnto þoo þat were wiþ me, þise hende han myni|sterde1111-11 of noone of ȝow coueytyd I, as ȝe self wyten, ffor to nede of þinges þt I had & to hem þt weryn wiþ me mynystreden þese hondys S.P.D.. Alle I hauealle þese þinges haue I S.P.D. schewed vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe, 13þat þoo þat þus traueylen hit bihoues to receyue þo infirme (or, þo febul), ande alsso forto þenke on1313-13 for men þt traueylen þus moten take seke men & haue mynde of S.P.D. þo worde of oure Lorde Iesu, þo whichefor S.P.D. he saide, þat hit es more blessed tomore to S.P.D. gife þanne fortoto S.P.D. take. Ande whanne he hade saide alleom. S.P.D. þise, he kneled ande preyed wiþ hem alle. Ande alle made a grete wepinge, ande þei felle vponon S.P.D. hise nekkenekke of poule S.P.D., ande kissed hym, sorowande moste for þo worde þat he saide, þat þei schulde noghte see more his face. Ande þe[i]S.P.D. broghte hym vntoto S.P.D. þo schippe.
AndeCm 21m in a later hand in the margin, C. xxvi co in a XVIth century hand, S. whanne we schipped ande were wiþdrawen fro þer eyghne, righte course we come vntoto S.P.D. Choum, ande þe nexte daye vntoto S.P.D. Rodum, ande fro þeþenþen S.P.D. to Patharam: ande whanne we haden fownden þere a schippe þat wolde go into Fenyce, we wente into þat schippe. Ande whanne we appered vntoto S.P.D. Ciper, we lefte hit vponon S.P.D. þo lefte honde, ande schipped into Sirie, ande we come vntoto S.P.D. Tyre; for þer schulde oure schippe be descharged. Ande þere, whanne we fonde discipuls, we dwelled þere seuen dais: þo whiche discipuls
saide to Poule bi spiritte, þat he schulde noghte go to Ierusalem. Ande whanne þo seuen dais wore gone, we wente forþe; ande alle þo discipuls, wiþ þer wyues ande childer, ledde vs vntotul with the u changed to y by a later hand, S. til P. to D. we [come]S.P.D. wiþouten þo cyte: & we kneled vponon S.P.D. þo banke of þo water, ande preyde; ande whanneom. P. we hade 5made oure haylsynge togider55-5 taken leeue eche at oþur S.P.D., we wente into þo schippe, ande þei wente agayne vnto hersto þeyres S.P.D.. Ande we in opun saylynge descended fro Tyre vntoto S.P.D. Tholomaydam; ande we haylsedsaluyd S.P.D. oure breþer, ande dwelled with hem a daye. Ande vpon þoþat S.P.D. toþer daye we come vntoto S.P.D. Cesarie; ande we enterde intoom. S.P.D. þo howse of Philippe þo euuangeliste, þo whiche was one of þo seuen, ande we dwelled wiþ hym. Ande he hade foure doghterdeghter (?), C., virgynes, þat were prophetes. Ande whanne we haden dwelled þere bi summe dais, one come from þo Iewry, þo whiche was a prophete, ande his name Agabagabbo P, in S. bo inserted above the line.. He, whanne he come vntoto S.P.D. vs, he toke þo girdel of Poule, ande bonde Poules hendehondys S.P. honde D. ande hise fete, ande saide, Þis sais þo Holygoste, Þus schal þo Iewes þat ben in Ierusalem bynde þo man þat owes þis girdel, ande þei schal bitake hym into þe hendehond S.P.D. of nacyons. Ande whanne we harde þis, we ande þoo þat wore of þat place preyde hym þat he schulde noghte go vntoto S.P.D. Ierusalem. Ande thanne ansuered Poule ande saide, What done ȝhe, þat ȝhe wepe ande disese myne hertte? I am redy noghte onely to be bownden, bot alsso forto dighe in Ierusalem for þo name of oure Lorde Iesu Criste. Ande [whanne] we myghtemyȝte not D. make no skille vnto hym to holde hym fro Ierusalem, we cessed, & saide, Þo wille of Godoure lord P., in marg., 1st corr. S. be done. Ande efter þise daisdayis with is expunged, D. day S.P. weadded above the line, 1st corr. S. om. D. wore redy, ande wente into Ieru|salem. Ande summe of þo disciples come with vs fro Cesarye, bringande with hem Iasone, wiþ whom we wore harbarowed, þo whiche was a man of Ciper & an olde discipul. Ande
whanne we come vntoto S.P.D. Ierusalem, gladly receyued vs þo breþer. Ande on þo secunde daye wente Poule wiþ us vntoto S.P.D. Iame, ande alle þe eldars wore gadired togider. Ande whan he hade hailsedsalowyd S.P.D. hem, he tolde vntoto S.P.D. hem þat God hade done by his mynisterynge in nacyons. Ande& whan þei had herd S.P. þei, whanne þei harde þis, þei loued God, ande þei saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, Sees þow, broþer, how many [þowsande]P. þowsund in marg. 1st corr. S. of þe Iewes trowden; ande alle ben filowers of þo lawe; ande þei hafe harde of þe, þat þow teches discencyone (or, diuerste) fro Moises of þo Iewes þo whiche are bi nacyons: þat hem owes noghte to circum|cide þer childer, nor fortoto S.P.D. goabove the line, C. as þei ben wonte. What þanneþarfore is S.P.? a multitude soþely schal be gaderde togider, for þei schal here þat þow erte comyn. Do þerfore þat we saye: Wiþ vs ben foure men þat has on hem [v]oweS.P.D. nowe C.; take þise, ande halow þe wiþ hem, ande gifeput S.P.D. þow in hem þat þei schaue þer heuedes: ande alle 11schal knowe, þat what þei haue harde of þe ben fals; bot alsso þei1111-11 om. S.P.D. schalalle schal P. alle in marg. 1st corr. S. knowe, þat þow gos ande kepes þo lawe. Ande of þoo þat trowen of þo nacyons, we haue writen, demande þat þei abstene hem fro þinge þat es sacrified vntoto S.P.D. idoles, ande fro blode, ande fro beeste þat es chokud in blode, & fro fornycacyone. Thanneþat D.; þan on erasure, 1st corr. S. Poule toke þise men, ande whanne he was pur[ifie]deS.P.D. purueyde C. þo nexte daye efter he wenteȝede S.P.D. wiþ hem into þo tempul, schew|ande þo fulfillynge of þo dais of þo purificacyone, vntoto S.P.D. þat offeringe wore offerde for icheone of hem. Ande whan þo seuen dais wore ended, þo Iewes þat wore of Asie, whanne þei see hym in þo temple, þei stiredmeuyd S.P.D. alle þo puple, ande kesteputte S.P.D. þer hondes on hym criande, Ȝhe men of Israel, helpes: þis es þo man þat teches in iche place alle maner of men agayne þo puple, þo& þe S.P. lawe, ande þis placeom. S.P.: & alsso he haues broghte þo gentiles into þo temple, ande has filed þis holy place. For þei see one Trophyme in þo cyte, þo whiche was a man of
Ephesy, with hym, ande þei supposed þat Poule hade broghte hym into þo temple. Ande alle þe cyte was stiredmeuyd S.P.D., ande grete concourse of þo puple was made: ande þei toke Poule ande drowe hym wiþouten þo temple: & onone wore þo ȝhates sparredclosyd S.P.D.. Ande whilestewhyles S.P.D. þei wore aboute forto slee hym, worde come vntoto S.P.D. þo tribune of þo companye, þat alle Ierusalem es confonded. (Tribune was he calledclepyd S.P.D. þat hade a þowsande knyghtes at his ledinge.) Ande he toke hise knyghtes ande centuryons onon, ande wenteȝede S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. Ieru|salem: ande whan þei see þo tribune ande þo knyghtes, þei cessed forto smyte Poule. Þanne þo tribune toke Poule, ande bade þat he schulde be bownden wiþ twoo chenys, ande asched what he was, ande whatte þat he hade done. Ande diuersite of cryynge was amongein S.P.D. þo company, for summe saide one, ande summe an-oþer. Ande whanne þo tribune myghte noghte knowe þo soþe forfor þe P. grete noyce, he bade þat he schulde be ledde intoto S.P.D. þo castelscastel S.P.D.. Ande whanne he come vntoto S.P.D. þo grees, bifelle, þat Poule washe was in marg. 1st corr. S; in text, P. borneup follows, P; above the line, 1st corr. S. of þo knyghtes for þo strenkthe of þo puple. For grete multitude of þo puple filowed, criande, Undo hym (or, slee hym). Ande whanne Poule biganne to come into þo castelscastel S.P.D., he saide vntoto S.P.D. þo tribune, If hit be leffulle þat I speke sumwhat vntoto S.P.D. þe? Ande þo tribune saide, Kannes þow speke of Grewe? Arte þou noghte, he saide, þo Egipcyene, þat bifore þise dais raysed grete noyce, ande ledde intointo þe S.P.D. deserte foure þowsande of men sicaryens? (Sicariens wore men þat maden fauchons or lytel swerdes.) Ande Poule saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, I soþely am a Iewe, of Tharse of Cilyce, a buriase of a cyte þat es noghte vnknowne: I prey þe þat I may speke vnto þo puple.
AndeChap. XXII. begins here in all the MSS. xxvii co in a late hand, S, erasure in marg., C. Cm xxii P. whanne þo pupletribune S.P.D. Vulg. ille. gafe hym leue fortoto S.P.D. speke, Poule, stondande in þo grees, wiþ hise honde he bekkende vntoto S.P.D. þo puple; andeCm 22m in marg. later hand, C. whanne greteþe gr. P. stillynge was, he speke
in þo tunge of Ebrewe, ande saide, Ȝhe men, breþer ande fadirs, heres what skille I schewe vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe. Ande whanne þei harde þat he speke in þo tunge of Ebrewe, þei helde hem þo more stille: ande he saide, I am a man, a Iewe borne in Tharse of Silice, ande norisched in þis cyte biside þo fete of Gamalyel. I was tawghte ande lernudleryd S.P.D. efter þe verite of my fadiresfader S.P.D. lawe, ande filowar of þo lawe as ȝhe alle ben todaye: ande þis waye I pursewed vnto þo deaddeþ S.P.D., byndandey bownde S.P.D. ande bitakande to prisones men ande wymmen. As þo prince of prestes beres wytnes vntoto S.P.D. me, ande alle þo mooste worþi: of whom I toke epistels ande letters, ande wente vntoto S.P.D. þoom. D. breþer into Damaske forto bringe hem from þeþenþen S.P.D. bownden into Ierusalem, þat þei schulde be punysched. Ande hit bifelle, as I wente, andeI S.P. neghed vntoto S.P.D. Damaske, 11ymiddes þo way1111-11 in myddil of þe day S.P.D., sodenly vmschonebyschone S.P.D. me grete lighte fro heuen. Ande [fallande]fallynge S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. þo erthe I harde a voyce sayande vntoto S.P.D. me, Saule, Saule, wharto pursewes þow me? Ande I ansuered, Who erte þou, Lorde? Ande he saide vntoto S.P.D. me, I am Iesu of Nazareth, whom þatom. S.P.D. þow pursewes. Ande þoo þat wore wiþ me seen lighte, bot þei harde noghte his voice þat speke wiþ me. & I saide, What schal I do, Lorde? Ande he saide vntoto S.P.D. me, Rise, ande go into Damaske; ande þer schal be saide vntoto S.P.D. þe of alle þinges þatwhat S.P. þe bihoues to do. & whanne I myghte noghte se for clerte of þat lyghte, I was ledde bi þoom. S.P.D. honde of my felowes, ande so I kome vntoto S.P.D. Damaske. Ande a man whos name was Ananye, he bi þo lawe hade wytnes of alle þoom. S.P.D. Iewes, þat dwelled þore, ande he come to me, andeande seid to in different ink, on erasure, C. seid to me, Saule broþer, biholde ande se. Ande I in þo same houre bihelde vponon S.P.D. hym. Ande he saide, Þoerased S. om. P. God of oure fadires haues bifore-ordeyned þe forto knowe hise wille, 21& forto see hise rightwise2121-21 om. S.P.D., ande forto here hise voyce of hise mouþe. For þou schalt be wytnes of hym vntoto S.P.D. alle men of þoom. S.P.D. þinges þat þow haues sene ande harde.
Ande nowe, wharto taries þowe? Rise, ande be baptisedbaptizest P., and wasche þi synnes, ande calleclepe S.P.D. vponneon S.P.D. hise name þat þus haues schewed vntoto S.P.D. þe. Ande hit bifelle, þat, whanne I turned agayne into Ierusalem ande preyde in þo temple, þat I was stonyed in mynde; ande me þoghte I harde hym sayande vntoto S.P.D. me, Haste þe, ande go oute swiftelyschyftely P. of Ieru|salem, for þei schal noghte receyue þoþi S.P.D. wytnessinge of me. & I saide, Lorde, þei knowne þat I am he þat sperredclosyd S.P.D. in prisone & betty bi þo synagogesynagogys S.P.D. hem þat trowedþt trowed expunged follows, S. in þe: ande whanne þo blode of Stephyn þat was þi witnes was schedde, I was þore, ande assented vntoto S.P.D. hise slaughte; ande I kepped þo cloþes of hem þat slowe hym. Ande he saide vntoto S.P.D. me, Go, forto alle nacyons I schal sende þe. Þo companye harde hym vntoto S.P.D. þis worde, ande þei lifte vppe þer voice, ande cried, Undo hym (orand S.P.D., delyuer hym) oute of þo erthe: for hit es noghte leffulle þat he schal life. Ande whanne þei maked þis crye, ande keste forþe þer cloþes, ande smote vppe pouder into þo ayre, þo tribune bade toom. S.P.D. lede hym into þo castels, ande forto bete hym wiþ scourges, ande forto to S.P.D. touremente, þat he myghte wyte for what cause suche criynge was made agayne hym. Ande whanne þei hade streyned hym in þooom. S.P.D. bondes, Poule saide vntoto S.P.D. þo centurione þat stode bi hym, Is hit leffulle vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe so forto scourge ande bete a man Romayne þat es noghte dampned? Ande whanne þo centurio harde þis, he wente vntoto S.P.D. þo Tribune, ande saide vntoclepe S.P.D. hym, What schalte þow do? þis man es a Romayne. & þo tribune come vntoto S.P.D. hym ande saideseyde to hym S.P.D., Say me if þow be a Romayne. Ande he saide, Ȝhe. Ande þo Tribune saide, Lyghtly sais þou þat þow erte a buriase of Rome; I haue goten þis cytecytee crossed through with borcheschep in marg. 1st corr. S. burscheschep P. wiþ myche money. Ande Poule saide, Ande I am borne Romayne. Ande onone þooþo ilke S.P. þat schulde hafe tourmented hym wente fro hym; ande þo
tribune dredde, efter þat he harde þat he was a Romayne, ande for he hade so bownden hym.
Andein marg. ye xxiii co in a XVIth cent. hand, S. Cm xxiii P. þo day efter þo Tribune wolde knowe certaynlymore c. S.P. for what cause he was accused of þo Iewes. He lowsed hym, ande called togider þo prestes ande alle þo cownseile, ande broghte forþe Poule, ande sette hym amonge hem.
Ande Poule, lokande vntoto S.P.D. þo cownseile, saide, Ȝhe men, breþer, I in alle gode conscience hafe lifed bifore God vnto þis daye. Ande Ananye, þo prince of prestes, bad to þoo þat stode nerenyȝ S.P.D. hym forto smyte hise mowþe. ÞanneCm 23 in marg. in a later hand, C. sayde Poule vntoto S.P.D. hym, Þowif þow C, om. S.P. ȝif (crossed through) þou D. wall whitedwhithyt wall (on erasure, 1st corr.) wyte (crossed through) S. wyte wel P., Godde schal strike þe. Ande þou syttande demes me efter þo lawe, ande agaynes þe lawe þow biddes þat I be smyten. Ande þoo þat stoden by saidenseyden (on erasure, 1st corr. S.), follows Poule, S.P. om. D. vntoto S.P.D. Poule, Wariescorsest P.D., in marg. 1st corr. S. þow þo souereyne presteprest of god P. of god in marg. S.? Ande Poule saide, Ierased; inserted after not, S. wiste noghte, breþer, þat he was prince of prestes. For hit es writen, Þow schalte noghte waryeblank space of ¾ in. P. cursest on erasure in a later hand, S. þo prince of þi flokkefolke S.P.D.. Ande whanne Poule knewein marg. C. þat one partye of þoo þat wore gadired þer was of þo Pharisens, ande an-oþer of þoom. S.P.D. Saducens, he cried in þo cownseyle, Ȝhe men, breþer& br. S.P.D., I am a Pharisene, þo sone of a Pharisene, of þo hope ande of þo resurrecyone I am demed. Ande whanne he hade saide þise, ononeon- above the line, in different ink, C. was made aom. S.P. discencyone [bitwixe]S.P. bytwixte D. byfore C. þo Pharisens ande þoom. S.P.D. Saducens, ande so þo multitude was diuersed ande twynned. Þo Saducens saide, þat þere schulde no resurreccyone be, ande þat þer was nouþer awngel norne S.P. spiritte: ande þo Pharisens saide þo reuerce þat boþe þise was. Ande grete criynge was made: ande sum of þo Pharises faughte, sayande, We fynde none yuel in þis man: what þofeȝif S.P.D. a spirytte hafe spoken vntoto S.P.D. hym, or aneny S.P.D. awngel?
Ande whanne grete discencyone was amonges hem, þo tribune dredde hym þat Poule schulde be alle todriuento ryfyn S.P.D. amonge hem; ande he bade knyghtes to goo ande take hym fro myddes of hem, ande forto lede hym into þo castelscastel S.P.. Ande in þo nyghte efter Criste stode bi hym, ande saide, Be stedfaste, for as þow haueste wytnessed of me in Ierusalem, so bihoues þe to wytnes at Rome. Ande whanne daye was comen, summe of þo Iewes gadured hem togider, ande made a vowe amonge hem, sayande, þat þei schulde noþerneyþer S.P.D. ete nor drinke vntoto S.P.D. þei hade slayne Poule. Ande þei wore mo þanne fourety men þat made þis coniuracyone ande þis oþe. Þise men ȝode to þo princes of prestes ande þo eldars, ande sayde, We han made a vowe, þat we schal nouþerneyþer P. ete norno P. drinke totyl S.P.D. we haue slayne Poule. Þerfore make ȝhe knowne vntoto S.P.D. þo tribune wiþ þo cownsel, þat he bringe hym forþe vntoto S.P.D. vs as we schulde knowe more certaynly of hym: ande we, or he come to vs, ben redy forto slee hym. Þis harde a childe þat was Poule sister sone; he come into þo castelscastel S.P.D. ande tolde Poule of þis. Ande Poule called vntoto S.P.D. hym one of þe centuryons, ande saide, Lede þis childe to þo tribune, for he haues sumwhat to telle vntoom. S.P.D. hym. Ande he toke hym, ande ledde hym to þo tribune, ande saide, Poule þat es bownden preyde me to bringe þis childe vntoto S.P.D. þe, for he haues to speke wiþ þe. Ande þo tribune toke þo hande of þo childe, ande wente wiþ hym biside, ande saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, What haues þow tofor to S.P.D. telle vntoto S.P.D. me? Ande he saide, Þo Iewes hanbeþ S.P.D. accorded to preye þe, þat þow bringe forþe to|morne Poule into þo conseyl, as if þei wolde wyte more wyterlysykyrly S.P.D. of hym. Bot trowe hem noghte: for moo þanne fourty men lyne in wayte for hym, þo whichewhulke S.D. han made a vowe, nouþer to ete nor drinke totul S.P.D. þeiþei sle hym S.P.D. haue slayne hym: ande now ben þei redy, ande abiden þi biheste ande þi wille. Ande þoom. P. tribune lete þis childe go, ande bade hym þat he schulde telle vntoto S.P.D. none þat he hade made þis knowne vntoto S.P.D.
hym. Ande he called twoto P. centurions, ande saide to hem, Makes redy two hundreth knyghtes forto go vntoto S.P.D. Cesarye, ande seuenty horse-men, ande spere-men two hundreth, fro þo þridde houre of þo nyghte; ande make redy ȝour bestes, þat ȝhe may sette Poule on one ande lede saufehym faste S.P. vnto Felix þo mayer marye P., ande wrote a letter in þis maner of wordes: Claudius Lysias to gode Felix gretes wele (or, ȝernesdesyreþ S.P.D. hele). Þis man þat was taken of þe Iewes, ande in poynte to be slayne of hem, I& S.P.D., in þo mene tyme comande, toke hym fro þer hendehonde S.P.D., for I knewe þat he was a Romayn. Ande for I wolde knowe þo cause þat þei keste agayne hym, I ledde hym into þerþe S.P.D. counseyle. And I fonde þat he was accused of þo questions of þer lawe: bot I fonde hym no þinge worþi þo deþe nor þat bere cryme vntoto S.P.D. þo Iewes. Ande whanne hit was tolde me of þo waytynges þat þei ordeyned agayne hym, I sende hym vntoto S.P.D. þe, ande biddande vntoto S.P.D. þe accusars þat þei telle þerþe S.P.D. pleynte bifore þe. Ande þo knyghtes, as hit was bodenbedyn S.P.D. to hem, þei toke Poule, ande ledde hym into Antipatridem. Ande þo toþer day þei lefte þer þerom. S.P. horseshors S.P.D. fortoto S.P.D. go wiþ hym, ande þei ȝode vntoto S.P.D. þo castels. Ande whanne þei wore comen vntoto S.P.D. Cesarie, ande hade gifen þe letter vntoto S.P.D. þo mayremarye P., þei sette bifore hym Poule. Ande whanne he hade redde þo letter, ande asched of what contre he was; ande whanne he knewe þat he was of Cylyce, he saide, I schal here þe whan þineþi S.P.D. accusars comen. Ande he bade kepe hym in þo mote-halle of Herowde (þo place þere Heroude demed).
Andein marg. Cm 24 in a later hand, C. þe xxiiii co in a XVIth century hand, S. efter fiue dais come þo prince of prestes Anany with summe of þo elders, and wiþ one Tertullo, an orator (þat es, a motar or aduoket); þise wente vntoto S.P.D. þe mairemarye P. agaynes Poule. Ande whanne Poule was sommunde, Tertullus biganne to accuse Poule, ande saide vntoto S.P.D. þe mayremarye P., Siþen we ben in mekemuche S.P.D. pece bi þe, ande many þinges
ben correctud by þi prouidence, euermoreande euermore S.P.D.C. , gode Felix, we han receyued þise wiþ alle dedis of þankes. Ande þat I no lenger tarye þein marg. C., I prey þe, here þisus S.P.D. for þi godenes. We haue fownden þis wikked man, ande styrande sedicione vntoto S.P.D. alle þo Iewes in alle þo worlde, ande autor of þo sedicione of þo secteseete D. cytee S.P. of Nazarens: ande oure temple has hehe haþ S.P.D. ben aboute fortoto S.P.D. file. Ande whanne we haden taken hym, we wolde haue iuged hym efter oure lawe. Ande þo tribune Lysias kome, and toke [hym]S.P.D. oute of our hendehonde S.P.D. with grete strenkthe, ande bade hise accusars come vntoto S.P.D. þe, of whom þow may knowe, demande of alle þise, of þo whiche we accusen hym. Ande þo Iewes saiden alsso þat þus hit was. Ande þo mayre made token to Poule to speke, and Poule ansuered, Of many ȝhere I þat haue knowne þe iuge vntoto S.P.D. þis flokkefolke S.P.D., [in a good wille I]S.P.D. schal make satisfaccyon for me bifore þe: þow may wele knowe þat no moo days ben vntoto S.P.D. me botþan S.P.D. twelfe siþen I come fro Ierusalem. Ande in þo temple þei han noghte fownden any disputande wiþ me or elles makandeme makynge follows companye, S.P.D. any concourse of company, nouþer in þo temple, nor in þo synagoge, nor in þo cyte. Nor þei may proue þinges þat þei accusen me of vntoto S.P.D. þe. [Ande I know|leche to þe]S.P.D., þat efter þo secte þat þei callen heresie, I haue so serued to God my fadire þat I trowe vntoto S.P.D. alle þat ben wryten in þo lawe ande þo prophecye: hafande my hope in God, in& in S.P.D. þoom. S.P. whiche alsso hemseluen abiden þo resurreccione þat es fortoto S.P.D. come boþe of þo gode ande þo yuel. In þis alsso I studye forto haue conscience to God euermore, ande to men alsso wiþouten offendikel. Ande efter many ȝhereȝeeres with s in a later hand, S. ȝeeres P. I come vntoto S.P.D. my nacyon forto do almes, ande forto do myne offeringes ande myne auowes: in þo whiche þei fonde me purified in þo temple, noghte wiþ grete companye, nor wiþ noyce. Ande þei toke me, cryande ande sayande, Vndo oure enmye. And summe Iewes of Asye, whom hit bihoued
nowe fortoto S.P.D. be redy bifore þe, & forto accuse, if þei haden oghte agaynes me, or elles say þise hemseluen, if þei hafe fownden any wikkednes in me, siþen I stonde here in þo conseyle, bot onely of þis one voyce, þat I cried stondande amonges hem and sayande, I am demed of ȝowe of þo resur|reccione of deadeþe d. S.P.. & Felix differde hem þat accuseden hym, for he kn[e]weS.P.D. knowe C. how hit was, ande he saide to hem, Whanne þo tribune Lysias komes, I schal here ȝowe. Ande he bade vntoto S.P.D. a centuryone forto kepe Poule, ande þat he schulde haue reste; ande þat none of hemhyse S.P.D., erasure of his follows, C. schulde be lette forto mynister vntoto S.P.D. hym. Ande efter summe dais Felix come wiþ Drusille, hise wife, þo whiche was a Iewes, ande calledprayed for to see S.P. Poule, ande harde of hym þo faiþe in oure Lorde Iesu Criste. Ande whanne he disputed of rightwisenes, ande chastite, ande þo dome þat was fortoto S.P.D. come, Felix was ferde, ande ansuered, Go nowe at þis tyme, for in aom. P. couenabul tyme I schal calle þe. Ande Felix supposed that Poule schulde gife hym summe moneye: and þerfore often tyme he called hym, and speke with hym. Ande efter þat Felix hade fynisched hise two ȝhere in hise office, he hade a successoure whos name was called Festus. Ande for Felix wolde haue þanke of þo Iewes, he lefte Poule bownden in bondes.
Andein marg. Cm 25 in a later hand, C. xxv co on erasure in a XVIth century hand, S. whanne Festus þanne come into þo contre, efter þo þridde daye he wente vntoto S.P.D. Ierusalem fro Cesarye. Ande þo princes of prestes come vntoto S.P.D. hym, and þo firste & þo moste worþi of þo Iewes, agayne Poule. Ande þei preyde hym, aschande grace agayn hym, þat he schulde bidde hym be broghte into Ierusalem, settande waytynges forto slee hym in þo waye. Ande Festus ansuered, þat Poule schulde be kepped in Cesarye, ande þat hymseluenhe h. S.P. schulde hastily go þider. Andeom. P. þerfore, he saide, þoo þat ben myghty in ȝowein ȝowe om. S.P.D., kome þeiom. S.P.D. alsso. Ande ifom. P. þer be any cryme in þo man, accuse þei hym. And he dwelled amonge hem days no mo bot eghte or tenne. Ande he wente into Cesarye,
ande þo toþer daye he sate in his sete of dome, ande bade þat Poule be broghte forþe. Ande whanne he was broghte forþe, Iewesþe i. S.P. þat komen fro Ierusalem stoden aboute hym, castande agayne hym many grete causes, þo whiche þei myghte noghte proue; for Poule made his skille agayne, sayande, þat nouper I haue synned agayn þo lawe of þo Iewes, nor agayne þo temple, nor agayne þo Cesar. Ande Festus, in wille forto gife grace vntoto S.P.D. þo Iewesnor aȝen þe pepel follows, expunged, S.P., ande forto haue þanke of hem, ansuered vntoto S.P.D. Poule and saide, Wilte þou go vntoto S.P.D. Ieru|salem, ande þer be iuged of þise bifore me? Ande Poule saide, I stonde atte þo demynge-place of þo Cesare, where hit behoues me fortoto S.P.D. be demed. I haue noghte noyed vntoto S.P.D. þo Iewes, as þow wele knowes. Ande if I haue noyed or done any þinge worþi þo deþe, I recuserefuse S.P.D. noghte to dye. Bot if I haue done no þinge þat þei accuse me of, none may gife me vntoto S.P.D. hem. Vntoto S.P.D. þo Cesar I appele. Þanne Festus spake wiþ hise cownseyle, and ansuered, Þow haues appeled vntoto S.P.D. þo Cesar, ande to þo Cesar schalte þow go. Ande whanne summe days wore passed, þo kenge Agrippa ande men of BaronyeVulg. Agrippa rex et Bernice. come vnto Cesarie to Festus, forto hayls hym. And whanne þei hade ben þore many dayes, Festus tolde vntoto S.P.D. þo kenge of Poule, & sayde, þer was a man lefte bownden of Felix: forin marg. C. whom, whanne I was at Ierusalem, þo princes of prestes ande þo elders come vntoto S.P.D. me, aschande dampnacione agaynes hym. To whom I ansuered, þat hit es noghte custome vntoto S.P.D. þo Romayns tofor to S.P. dampne any man, totil (on erasure, S.) P. he þat es accused haue presente hise accusars, and alsso þat he haue place forto defende hym, forto ansuere vntoto S.P.D. þo crymes þat ben putte vponon S.P. hym. Ande whanne þei come hider wiþouten any taryynge, I sate on þo toþer day forto deme, and I bade hym forto be broghte forþeto us S.P.D.. Of whom, whanne hise accusars stode bifore me, I fonde no cause of þo whiche I supposed illeyuel S.P.D.. Bot summe questionsquestyoun S.P.D. of his super|sticione þei hade agayne hym, and specially of one Iesu, þat
es deed, whom Poule affermed forto life. Ande for I was in doute of þis question, I asched if he wolde go vntoto S.P.D. Ieru|salem and be iuged þore of þisehym, crossed through, with þese þynges in marg. 1st corr. S. þese þinges, P.. Ande Poule appeled, & forto kepe hit vntoto S.P.D. þo knowynge of þo Auguste, I bade kepe hymom. S.P. to I sende hym vnto þoom. S.P.D. Cesar. Ande Agrippa saide to Festus, I wolde alsso here þat man. 7Ande Festus ansuered77-7 om. S.P., Tomorne þow schalte here hym. Ande vponon S.P.D. þo toþer daye, whanne Agrippa ande þo men of Beronye wore comen with grete ȝerneyngeȝernynges P., ande wore enterdto, expunged, follows, S. þo audy|torye, wiþ þo tribunes ande þo principal men of þo cyte, at þoom. P. bidynge of Festus Poule was broghte forþe. Ande Festus saide, Kenge Agrippa, ande ȝhe alle þat ben here wiþ vs, ȝhe sene þis man, of whom alle þo multitude of þo Iewes speke vntoto S.P.D. me at Ierusalem, aschande & criande þat he schulde no lenger life. Ande I fonde no þinge þat he wore worþi þe deþe fore. Ande for he haues appeled, I haue demed to sende hym vntoto þe S.P.D. Auguste. Bot in certayne what I may write to my lorde haueI haue S.P.D. I noghte. Ande for þis cause I haueom. P. broghte hym forthe vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe, and specially vntoto S.P.D. þo kenge Agrippa, þat Ihaue, expunged, follows, P. may asche hym bifore ȝowe, ande þat I may knowe what I schal write. For wiþouten resone me þenkeþynkeþ S.P.D. to sende hym bownden, ande noghte forto telle þo cause.
Andein marg. Cm 26 in a later hand, C. xxvi co on erasure, XVIth century hand, S. þo kenge Agrippa saide vntoto S.P.D. Poule, Hit es sufferde þat þow speke for þiseluen. Þanne Poule spredde hise hende obrodeabrood follows spred, S.P.D., and gafe his skille, ande saide, Of alle þo þingesþ on erasure, S. kyngis D. þat I am accused of þo Iewes, kenge Agrippa, I suppose me blessed ande cleneknele S.P.D. bifore þe, siþen I schal defende me today. Ande specyally siþen þow knowes alle þoom. S.P.D. customes þat ben amonge þohem P. Iewes, ande alsso þo questionscustomes S.P.D. þat ben amonge hem: wherfore I preye þe þat
þow here me paciently. Ande alsso forsoþe my lyfe fro my ȝowþe, ande fro þo bigynnynge in my nacyone, in Ierusalem, alle þo Iewes knowe; knowande me fro þo bigynnynge, if þei wolde bere wytnes, þat efter þo certayne secte of oure relygione I haue lifed a Pharisene. Ande nowe in þo hope of biheste þat was made vntoto S.P.D. oure fadires of oure Lorde God, I stonde subjecte to þo dome; in þo whiche oure twelue tribes, nyghte ande daye seruande, hopen to come. Of þo whiche hope, kenge Agrippa, I am accused of þo Iewes. Bot whatte es demed incredibil anentes ȝowe, if God raiserere S.P.D. þo deed? Ande I alsso supposed, þat me awghte to do many contrary|ouse þinges agayne þo name of Iesu of Nazarene. Ande I spardeclosyd S.P.D. in prisone many halowes; and þis I did in Ierusalem, for suche power I toke of þo princes [of prestis]S.P.D.; ande whanne þei wore slayne, I bare þo sentence. Ande punysch|ande hem customabuly by alle þo synagoges, I gartemaked S.P.D. hem fortoto S.P.D. blaspheme. Ande ȝitte I was more wode agaynes hem, ande pursewed hem to oute nacyons. In þo whiche, when I wente vntoto S.P.D. Damaske wiþ þo power & letters of princes of prestes, in þo myddes of þo daye, in þo waye I sawe, kenge Agrippa, fro heuen, passande þo schynynge of þo sunne, a lyghte þat vmschoneaboute schon S.P.D. me and hem þat wore wiþ me. Ande whanne we alle felle vntoto S.P.D. þo erthe, I harde a voice spekande to me in þe tunge of Hebrewe, Saule, Saule, whi pursewes þow me? Hit es harde to þe to keskyce S.D. kynse P. agayne þo broddeprikke S.P.D.. Ande I saide, Who erte þow, Lorde? Ande he saide, I am Iesu whom þow pursewes. Bot rise vppe, he saide, ande stonde vponon S.P.D. þi fete: for forom. S.P.D. þis cause I appered vntoto S.P.D. þe, forto make þe a mynister ande wytnes of þinges þat þow haues sene, and of þo in whom I schal appere to þ[e]S.P.D. þo C.; delyuerande þeþes P. fro pupuls ande nacyons, to whom noweI now S.P.D. I sende þe, forto opun þo eyghne of þo blynde, þat þei turne fro þo derkenes vntoto S.P.D. þo lighte, fro þe pouer of þo fende to God, ande þat þei take remyssion of synnes, ande lote amonge
halowes bi þo faiþe þat es in me. Wherfore, kenge Agrippa, I was noghte vntrowthfulle to þo heuenly visione: bot to hem þat wore at Damaske firste, ande siþenom. S.P.D. to þem þat wore at Ierusalem, I schewed hit, ande bi alle þo contre boþe to þo Iewrye ande to þo nacions, þat þei schulde do penawnce, ande þat þei schulde be turned vntoto S.P.D. God, doynge þo worþi frutes of penawnce. For þis cause þo Iewes, whan I was in þo temple, wolde haue slayne me, ande toke me. Ande ȝitte vntoto S.P.D. þis daye I stande, hulpun wiþ þo grace of God, witness|ande boþe to þo lesse ande to þo more, no þinge sayande more þanne Moyses ande þo prophetes saide forto kome; þat Criste was p[a]ssibulpossibul C.; passybyl S.P.D. Vulg. si passibilis Christus., & þat he was firste of þo resurreccione of þo deed, forto schewe lyghte vntoto S.P.D. þo puple ande to þo naciones. Ande whanne he spake þus ande schewed resone and skille for hym, Festus saide wiþ a grete voyce, Poule, þow fonnesþu fonnys repeated in marg. 1st corr. S.; mycheþi m. S.P.D. letturere turnes þe vntoto S.P.D. folyfoltschupe S.P.D.. Ande Poule saide, Gode Festus, I fonne noghte, bot I speke wordes of soburnes and soþefastenes. For þo kenge knowes of þise, to whom I speke stabuly; I suppose þat none of þise es vnknowne to hym; for none of þise was done in hiddelshyddyl S.P.D. (or, in hernes). Ande þo kenge Agrippa trowestrowest S.P., st on erasure, S. vntoto S.P.D. þo pro|phetes; I wote þat þow trowes. Ande þo kenge Agrippa saide vntoto S.P.D. Poule, In lytel þou makes a skille þat I am Cristen. Ande Poule saide, I ȝernedesyre S.P.D. bifore God in lytel ande in myche, noghte onely þe, bot alsso alle þat heren me todaye, forto be made suche as I am, outetaken þise bondes. Ande þo kenge, ande þo mayre, ande þo men of Beronye, and þoo þat sate wiþ hem, rose vp; and wente biside ande speke togider & saide, No þinge haues þis man done þat es worþi þo deþe or bondes. Ande Agrippa saide vntoto S.P.D. Festus, Þis man myghte haue ben laten go, if he hade noghte appeled vntoto S.P.D. þeom. S.P. Cesarcapitulum follows, C..
Andein marg. Cm 27m in a later hand, C. xxvii co in a XVIth century hand, S. whanne hit was demed þat he schulde schippe into Ytalye, ande beom. P. takenbytaken S.P.D. vntoto S.P.D. þo centurion of þo companye of Auguste whos name was Iulye, we wente into a schippe of Hardumetyneadrowmyntyne S.P.D. Vulg. navem Adrumetinam.. Ande whanneom. S.P.D. we biganne to sayle, we bere vppe aboute þo places of Asye; ande with vs dwelled Aristarcus Mecedonye of Thessalonye. Ande þo nexte day we come untoto S.P.D. Sidon: and Iulye tre[t]edS.P.D. treded C. Poule manly, and lete hym go to hise frendes, and forto do hise owne cure. Ande whanne we wente fro þeþenþeyn S.D. þen P., we vndursayled Ciper, for þo wyndes wore contrariouse. Ande we, saylande þo see of Cylyce and Pamphile, in twelue days we come vntoto S.P.D. Listram of Lycie. Ande þore þo centurion fonde a schippe of Aly|sawnder, schippande into Ytalye; & he putte vs in hit. Ande whanne we hade sailed slouly many dais, ande vneþes wore comen agayne Gwyde, for lettynge of þo wynde, we sayled vnto Crete biside Salomon; ande vneþe saylande biside into a place þat es called Gode Porte (or, hauen), to þo whiche es nerenyȝ S.P. þo cyte of Thessal[a]S.P.D. Thessa|lonye with onye expunged, C.. Ande whanne longe tyme ande myche þan was passed, ande was no forþer siker schippynge ande saylynge, for þat þei haden longe fasted, Poule comforþed hem, sayande, Men, I see þat wiþ iniurye ande myche harme noghte onely of þo charge þat es of þo schippe ande of þo schippe, [bot of oure lyues]S.P.D. vacant space of ¾ inch, C., bigynnes oure schiprode to be. Þo centurio trowed vntoto S.P.D. þo guuernere of þo schippe ande to þo schipman more þanne to Poule[s] sayngespoules seyenge S.P.D.. Ande for þei haden noghte habul hauenynge forto wynter inne, þei toke þer cownsel to go fro þeþenþen S.D. þeyn P., if þei myghte onom. S.P.D. any wise come vntoto S.P.D. Phenyce, forto wynter at þo hauen of Crete, þo whiche was berande towarde Affriche, ande& to S.P.D. Chore. Bot whan þo souþe wynde blewe, whanne þei supposed to holde þer purpose, ande hade gone fro Assere ande hade passed Crete, noghte myche efter come
agayne hem a norþe-heste wynde. Ande whanne þo schippe was vppe-taken, ande myghte noghte enforce agayne þo wynde, we gafe þo schippe to·e schyp to repeated in marg. 1st corr. S. þo wynde, ande þo wynde bere vs. Ande so we come vnto an ile þat es named Cawdacanda S.P.D.. Ande vneþe myghte we gete þo kokbote: and whanne þis was hade away, þei vsedom. S.P. helpinge, byndande þo schippe; dredande þat neom. S.P.D. þei schulde falle into sandesondy S.D. þe sondy P. Vulg. timentes ne in Syrtim inciderent. place: ande so þei wore borne, while þe vessel was keste downe. [Ande] we wore& we were S.P.D. wore we C. schaken wiþ a grete tempeste; ande þoat þe S.P.D. toþer [day]P; in marg. 1st corr. S. om. C.D. þei keste oute of þo schippe þinges þat wore þerinne. Ande vponom. S.P.D. þo þridde day þei keste oute þeom. S.P.D. armorye of þo schippe wiþ þer hende, for noþer sonne nor mone nor sternessterrys S.P.D. appered bi many dais. Ande grete tempeste was, ande þan was alle hope of oure hele away. Ande whanne we longe hade fastud, Poule stode ymyddes and saide, It behouedbyhoueþ P., ȝhe men, forto herehere with d added and hafe in marg. C. me (or, fortohere me or forto om. S.P.D. haue harde me), noghte to haue passed fro Crete, ande forto haue wonnen þis losselost S.P.D.. Bote ȝitte bes of godeom. S.P.D. herte: for losselost S.P.D. schalom. P. þer noneom. S.P.D. be ofom. S.P.D. none of ȝoure lifes, bot only of þo schippe. For þis nyghte stode bi me þo awngel of God, whos I am, ande vntoto S.P.D. whom I serue, ande saide, Poule, drede þe noghte, forto vntoom. S.P.D. þo cesar þe bihoues to come. Ande lo, God haues giuen vntoto S.P.D. þeon erasure, 1st corr. S. ȝow D. allealle lyfes S.P. þat ben in þo schippe wiþ þe. Ande þerfore, men, bes of gode herte: for I trowe vntoto S.P.D. my God, þat so schal it be as hit was saide vntoto S.P.D. me. Ande into an ile schal we come. Bot efter þo fourten[d]efourtenþe S.P.D. nyghte was comen, and we wore schippande in A-drye, aboute þoom. S.P.D. mydde-nyghte þo schipmen supposed þat þei see a contre. Ande þei put þer plumbe into þe see to knowe þo depnes ofof þe S.P. water; ande þei fonde twenty paces. Ande whanne þei wore a lytel þen, þei fonde XV pases. Ande for þei dredde þat þei schulde falle into scharpe places, þei sende foure ankers oute of þoom. D. schippe,
ande ȝerneddesyryd S.P.D. þat dayþe d. P. wore comen. Ande whan þo schipmen wolden hafe fledde oute of þo schippe, ande hade put oute þo bote of þe schippe into þe see as forto keste þer ankers, Poule saide 4vnto þo centurion ande to þe knyghtes44-4 om. S.P.D., Bot if ȝhe be stille in þo schippe, ȝhe may noghte be sauedsaue S.P.D.. Thanne þo knyghtus kutteden away þo cordes ofþo cordes of om. S.P.D. þo boot, ande suffured hit to falle away. Ande whanne lyghte biganne fortoto S.P.D. come, Poule preyde hem alle þat þei schulde ete sumwhat, ande saide, Þis es þo fourtende daye þat ȝhe hauen ben fastande, ande no mete haue ȝhe eteneten or om. S.P. (or, taken). Wherfore I pray ȝowe to take summe meate for ȝoure hele: for a heer of none of ȝoure hedes schal perische. Ande whanne he hade saide þis, he toke brede ande þanked God in alle þer sighte. Ande whanne he hade broken þo brede ande biganne forto to S.P.D. ete, þei wore made þo more herty ande toke mete alsso. Þo men þat wore in þe schippe wore two hundrethe seuenty ande sexe. Ande whanne þei haden eten þer fille, þei allegid þo schippe, ande keste þo whete into þo see. Ande whanne day was comen, þei knew [noghte] þo londeno lond S.P.D.. Bot an arme þei bihelde, in þo whiche þei see as hit wore a banke. Ande þider þei þoghte, if þei myghte, to keste þo schippe. Ande whanne þei hade drawen vppe þo ankurs, þei putte hem vntoto S.P.D. þe see, slakande þo iunctures fro þo gubernaclegubernacles P, es added in a later hand, S., & raisedreryd S.P. a lytel sayle. Ande bi þo blaste of þo wynde þei wente vntoto S.P.D. þo banke. Ande whanne we wore fallen into a place þer two sees mette, þei enpechedenpersched S.P.D. þo schippe; ande þo forþer partye of þo schippe stodeom. S.P. stille. Bot þo schippe lowsed for strenkthe of þo see. Ande þo knyghtes gafe counseile, þat þoo þat wore vndure kepinge in þo schippe schulde be slayne, and þat þei schulde noghte skape awaye. Ande þo centurion, for he wolde þat Poule wore saued, for|bedde so to do. Ande he bade þat þooeche S.P. þat couþe swymme schulde firste go vntoto S.P.D. þo see, ande so skape ande come vntoto S.P.D.
þo londe. Ande oþer toke bordes, and summe toke oþer þinges þat wore of þo schippe. Ande so bifelle, þat þei alle skaped vnto þo londe saufefollows scaped, S.P.D., & none perisched.
Andein marg. Cm 28m in a later hand, C. ye xxviii ce in a XVIth century hand, S. whanne we were skaped, þanne knewe we þat þo londe þat wein marg. 1st corr. S. were onne was called þo ile of Mutilene. Ande þo barbarise schewed myche manhede vntoto S.P.D. vs, for þei kindeld a fire, ande refresched vs, for þe rayne ande þo colde þat was þanne. Ande whanneom. P. Poule hade gider[ed]gaderyd a multitude of S.P.D. stikkes, ande hade layde hem vpon þoon þe S.D. on D. fire, a nedder come from þo hete, and smote into his honde. & whanne þo barbarise se þo beste hongande hyngande S.P.D. inon S.P. hise honde, þei saide togider, For|sothe he þis es a mansleare, for þofe hehe be S.P.D. skaped fro þo see, he es noghte suffurde no lenger to lyfe. Ande Poule smote þo beste into þe fire, ande hade none harme. Ande þei supposed þat he schulde bolneswelle S.P.D., ande sodenly falle downe ande dighe. Ande whanne þei longe hade abiden, and seghe þat he hade none harme, þei turned ande saide þat he was God. Ande in þo places wore þe manersmaystris S.P.D. of þo prince of þat ile, whos name was Publyus; þo whiche receyued vs, andeom. S.P.D. benyngly re|freschedom. S.P.D. vs three dais. Ande þo fader of þis prince laye in þo fiuoures ande in þo yuel þat es called dissintery: vntoto S.P.D. whom Poule enterde. Ande whanne he hade layde vponon S.P.D. hym his hondes, he helud hym. Ande whanne þis was done, alle þat wore in þo ile ande wore seke come vntoto S.P.D. hym, ande wore helud. Ande men of þat ile worschipped vs with myche worschippe, ande gafe vs þat vs nedid vntoto S.P.D. oure efte|schippinge. Ande efter three monythes we schipped ininto S.P.D. a schippe of Alysawnder, þo whiche hade wynterde in þat ile, ande hade fairnes of castelsVulg. cui erat insigne Castorum.. Ande whanne we wore comen to Syracuse, þere we dwelled three dais. Ande fro þeþenþen S.P. þeyn D. we passed abowte, ande come vnto Regyum: ande efter þo mydday whanne þo souþe blewe, þo secunde day we
come to Puteolos: where we fonde breþer, ande þei preyd vs fortoto S.P.D. dwelle wiþ hem seuen dais: ande so come we vntoto S.P.D. Rome. Ande whanne þo breþer þere harde of oure comynge, þei come agayne vs vntoto S.P.D. þo merket of Appii, þo senator; ande whanne Poule se hem, he þanked God, ande toke gode traiste. Ande whanne we wore comen vntoto S.P.D. Rome, Poule was suffurd to dwelle wiþouten þo castels bi hymseluen wiþ oneoute S.P.D. knyghte to kepe hym. Ande efter þo thridde daye he called togider þo firste of þo Iewes: ande whanne þei wore comen togider, he saide vntoto S.P.D. hem, Ȝhe menmyn P., breþer, I haue done no þinge agayne þo pupil of þo Iewes, or agayn eldarelderys S.P.D. doynge. Ande fro Ierusalem I am bitaken bownden into þo hende of þo Romaynes; & whanne þei hade aschinge of me, þei wolde haue laten me go, for þei fonde no cause of deþe in me. Ande for þo Iewes agayn-saide þat I schulde noghte be delyuerde, þerfore was I gartenedyd to S.P.D. forto appele vntoto S.P.D. þo Cesar; noghte forto accuse my nacione. Ande for þis cause I praide forto see ȝowe, ande forto speke wiþ ȝowe: forwhi for þo hope of Israel I am vmgyuenvmgyuen or om. S.P.D. (or, bounden) with þis cheyne. Ande þei saide vntoto S.P.D. hym, We toke neuer lettures fro þo Iewry ofwiþ crossed through and of inserted above the line, D. þe, nor none comande to vs haues tolde vs any dede or illeyuel S.P.D. of þe. Bot we prey þeþe þe C., þat we may here of þeof þe in marg. C., what þow can ande felys. For of þoþis S.P.D. secte es knowne þat in iche place hit es withstande. Ande whanne he hade sette hem a daye, many come vntoto S.P.D. hise hostage þer he dwelled; vntoto S.P.D. whom he expowned, witnessande þo kengdome of God, ande makande skilles to hem of Iesu, of þo lawe of Moisy, ande of þo prophetes, fro þo morne vnto þo euento euen S.P.D.. Ande summe trowed vnto þooto þat S.P.D. þat he saide, ande summe trowed noghte. Ande whanne þei wore not assentande togider, þei lernedlernyd of crossed through with wenten wey in marg. in a later hand, S. wentyn here wey P. of Pouleseyenge follows, P. saynghe in a later hand, in marg. S. o worde þat welesecond e erased, S. þo Holigoste speke by Isaye þo prophete vntoto S.P.D. oure fadirs, sayande, Go to þis puple,
ande saye vntoto S.P.D. hem, Ȝhe schal here wiþ ere, ande ȝhe schal noghte vnderstande; ande ȝhe seande schal se, ande ȝhe schal noghte biholde: for þo hertehertys S.P.D. of þis puple es hardendehardyd S.P.D., ande wiþ eres heuely þei han harde. Ande þer eyne þai hanom. S.P.D. lokked togider; þat in aunter þei se noghte wiþ eyne, ande here with eres, ande vndurstonde with herte, forto turne hem, þat I hele hem. Ande þerfore be hit knowne vntoto S.P.D. ȝowe, þat þisis S.P.D. helfulle þingeses erased, S. es sende vntoto S.P.D. naciones: ande þei schal here hit. Ande Poule dwelled alle þat two ȝhere in þat place þat he hired, ande receyued alle þat come to hym, þo Iewes, ande þo nacionesgrekes P, on erasure, 1st corr. S. þat wore calledclepyd S.P.D. gentiles, prechande þo kengdame of God, ande techande þingesom. S.P.D. þat ben of oure Lorde Iesu Criste wiþ fulle traiste wiþouten lettyngeExplicit follows, C.S.P., in marg. nearly erased, D. MS. C. ends here..