The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,

[The epistle to the Ebrues [From M. The pistle to Ebrues. P. Here bygynneth Poule pistel to the Ebrewes. Q. The pistel to the Hebrues. T. No initial rubric in VX.] .] CAP. I.

[verse 1] Manyfold [By manyfolde speche T.] and [and in G pr. m. T.] many maners sum tyme God spekinge to fadris in [bi V.] pro|phetis, [verse 2] at the laste in thes daies spak [he spake G sec. m. MOT.] to vs in [bi V.] the sone; whom he ordeynede eyr of alle thingis, by whom he made and the worldis. [verse 3] The [Om. V.] which whanne he is the [Om. T.] schynynge of glorie, and figure [the figure X.] of his [the O.] substaunce, and berynge alle thingis bi word of his vertu, makynge purgacioun of synnes, sittith on the riȝthalf of ma|geste [verse 4] in hiȝ thingis; so moche [Om. G pr. m.] maad [he is maad T.] betere than aungelis, by how moche he hath inherited a more different, `or excel|lent [Om. X.] , name bifore hem. [verse 5] Forsoth [Forwhi V.] to which [whom T.] of the [Om. ST.] aungels seide God ony tyme, Thou art my sone, I haue [Om. X.] `gendrid thee to day [to day gendrid thee MP.] ? And eftsoone, I schal be to him into fadir [a fadre GQT.] , and he schal be to me into sone [a sone QT.] ? [verse 6] And whanne eftsoone he bryngeth yn the firste bigetyn [bigeten sone T.] into [in Q.] the roundnesse of the [Om. S.] erthe, he seith, And alle [Om. Y.] the [Om. G pr. m. MPTY.] aungels of God worschipe thei hym. [verse 7] And sothli `to aungels he seith [he seith to aungels V.] , The [Om. V.] which makith his aungels spiritis, and his mynystris flawme of fyer. [verse 8] For|soth to the sone [sone he seith T.] , God, thi trone [trone is V.] into the world of world [worldes O.] ; a [and a QX.] ȝerd of equyte the [is the V.] [verse 9] ȝerd of thi [the O.] rewme; thou hast louyd riȝt|wysnesse, and hatedist wickidnesse; ther|fore God [thou God V.] , thi God, anoyntide [oyntede X.] thee with oyle of gladnesse [ful out ioie V.] , `or ioye [Om. GMOPQTVX.] , bifore [more than V.] thi felowis. [verse 10] And, Thou, Lord, in the bigyn|nyng foundedist [foundest NQY.] the erthe, and heuenes [verse 11] ben werkis of thin hondis; thei schulen perische, forsoth thou schalt perfitly dwelle; and alle schulen wexe olde as a

[verse 12] cloth, and thou schalt chaunge hem as `an amyte [a myte TY. a cloth V.] , `or girdyng aboute [Om. OV. or chaunging clothe T.] , and thei schulen be chaungid. Forsoth thou ert the same thi silf [silf vnchaungable T.] , and thi ȝeeris schulen not faylen. [verse 13] Forsoth [But V.] to which [whome GMT.] of the [Om. GMST.] aungels seide God ony [in eny T.] tyme, Sitte thou on my riȝthalf, til I schal [Om. V.] putte thin ene|myes a stool of thi feet? [verse 14] Wher [Whether S.] thei `alle ben not [schal be not K.] seruyng spiritis, sent into mynysterie [the ministerie O. seruice T.] for hem that taken [token T.] the heri|tage of heelthe?