PHILIPPIANS.
[This prologue is from p, collated with y, which last Ms. has this rubric, Here bigynneth anothir prologe to the Phi|lipensis.] These Filipensis tooken of the apostil the word of prechynge, and weren stidefast in feith [feith of Crist y.] , and thei resseyueden nott false apostlis; and therfore the apostil preisith hem [hem, as he maketh mynde in the last chapitre. And y.] . Thei sende sum catel [of her catel y.] to Poul bi Epafrodite to Rome, whom he sendith [sente y.] aȝen with this pistil, in which pistil, sith he mai not be present bodili, he makith hem stronge aȝens double bateile, that is to seie, of false pursueris [persueris aȝens her bodies y.] , and of fals prechouris [aȝens her soulis, that thei suffre alle aduersitees mekeli, for the loue of Crist, as Crist dide [Supplied from Ms. y.] .]