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A fourteenth century English Biblical version, edited by Anna C. Paues ...

pore in speryte: for here is þe rewme of heuenes. [verse 4] Blessyd be þe mylde: for þei schal haue þe lond of lyf. [verse 5] Blessyd be þei þat waylen: for þei schal be comfortyd. [verse 6] Blessyd be þei þat hungren & þrusten ryȝtwysnes: for þei schal be fulfyllyd. Blessyd be mercyful men: for [S folio 137] þei schal swe mercy. [verse 7] , [verse 8] Blessyd be men of clene herte: for þei schal se God. [verse 9] Blessyd [D folio 6b] be pesyble men: for þei schal be cleped Godes chyldren. [verse 10] Blessyd be þey [ȝe D. þ. y added later, S.] þat suffren purswynge for ryȝtwysnes: for here is þe rewme of heuenes. [verse 11] Blessyd schal ȝe be whan þat men schal curse ȝow, & whan þei haue purswed ȝow, & whan þei haue seyd al yuel aȝeyns ȝow, lyȝenge, for me. [verse 12] Ioye ȝe, & be glad: for ȝoure hyre is muche in heuene: soþly so þei haue purswed þe prophetis þat were byfore ȝow. [verse 13] Ȝe beþ salt of þe erþe: & ȝif þe salt vanysche awey, in what þing schal þe erþe be saltyd? þis salt is not worþi after, but to be cast oute & be defoulyd of men. [verse 14] Ȝe ben lyȝt of þe world. A cytee sett on an hylle may not be hyd. [verse 15] Nor men lyȝte not a lanterne & putte it vndir a buschel, but þei sette it on a kandelsteke, þat it ȝeue lyȝt to alle þat beþ in þe hous. [verse 16] & so schyne ȝoure lyȝt byfore men, þat þei se ȝoure goode werkes, & so þanke ȝoure Fadir þat is in heuene. [verse 17] Wele ȝe not gesse þat I come to lose [lese P.] þe lawe ne prophetys: I come not to vn-do hem, but for-to fylle hem. [verse 18] Soþly I seye to ȝow, To þat heuene & erþe passe, an i ne a tytyl schal not passe fro þe lawe byfore alle þinges be done. [verse 19] Þerfore [D folio 7] who doþ not on of þe leeste comawndementis, he schal be cleped leest in þe kyngdom of heuene; and soþly he þat doþ þes comawnde|mentes & techeþ [techiþ hem D.] , he schal be cleped greet in þe kyngdom of heuene. [verse 20] Soþly I sey to ȝow, But if ȝoure ryȝtewysnes habounde more þan of [of scribis P, in late hand, in marg. S.] þese [þe P; þese...lawe underlined, S.P.] wyse men of þe [S folio 137b] lawe & of [above the line, S. om. D.] þe Pharyseus, ȝe schal not entre in-to þe kyngdom of heuene. [verse 21] Soþly ȝe haue herd þat it is seyd to men of þe olde lawe, Þou schalt not sle; forsoþe he [in margin, S.] þat sleþ, he schal be [verse 22] coupable in þe dome; soþly I sey to ȝow, þat who-so [þat P.] is wroþ
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