[This prologue is from p.] Poul wroot this epistil more cleerli or exelently than othere pistlis; for ech man is moost expert outhir moost redi in his owne langage. Wherfore as Ebrew langage is formere than othere, as Isodre seith in the firste book of Ethimologies, so this pistil to Ebrewis, that was last writen, is the firste in ordre of techinge. For in this pistil is schewid the vnperfeccioun of Moises lawe, and the perfeccioun of the gospel; and so the ceessynge of cerymonies of Moises lawe is schewid aȝens the opynyoun of Jewis conuertid. Thre thingis ben in the lawe of God. The i. thing is the feith of God, for a lawe is not ȝouen, no but to a peple, which is men gaderid togidere; and the first preisable gaderynge is the feith; the ij. is the truthe reul|ynge, ȝeuen of the auctour of lawe; and the thridde thinge is the eende of the lawe. Oure auctour is God, and the eende is the blis of heuene.
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,
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- The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,
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- Oxford,: University press,
- 1850.
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"The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFZ9170.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 20, 2025.