Tabula

¶Incipie historia libri Esdre.

¶Anno mundi .iiij.M.vi.C.lix. Et an¦te xp̄i natiuitatē .v.C.xl.

ZOorobabell after the cōmaunde∣ment of god foūded the Temple and made it parfyte / but it was longe after (vt pʐ Esdre .vi.) After the people of Ierusalem came fro Babylon / these two ruled Ihesus the hyghe preest as go uernour / and Zorobabell as duke. And this maner of guydynge was kepte vn∣to Herodes tyme / that the hyghe preestes sholde be pryncypall / and the dukes vn∣der theym. But the dukes were euer of the trybe of Iuda / after the prophecye of Iacob. And vnder that good gydynge of preestes it is not redde / the people to ha¦ue receded fro y^• very true fayth / as they dyde afore in the tyme of Iewes and of kynges. For then many tymes they tan∣ne to ydolatrye. ¶Eldras the preest of the kynrede of Aron this tyme exceded men in holynes / thorugh whose grete wysedome all the Iewes state was hol∣pen. ¶Cambyses the sone of Siri reg∣ned on the kyngdome of Persarum / the whiche cōmaunded myghtely the Tem¦ple of Ierusalem sholde not be buylded

ayen. His fader cōmaunded it sholde be buylded. This Cambyses made a cur∣syd Iuge to be fleyed or hylte a lyue / & made his sone to sytte on his fad{er}s shyn∣ne / that thrugh that drede he sholde dre∣de falshede & Iuge ryghtwysly. This Cābyses had many names in holy scrip¦ture in the boke of Esdre. Arthaxerses or Assurus in historia Iudith / y^t was done vnder hym he called Nabugodonosor / or Olyfernes the prynce of his chyualry subdued many londes to his lorde. And at the last he came vnto Bethuleem / & there was slayne of Iudith a woman / (vt pʐ Iudith .ij. et .xiij.) ¶Enereydes regned in Perses half a yere. ¶Darius regned at the Persees / the whiche by the mocyon of Zorobabell cōmaunded the werke of the Temple to be taken ayen. And cōmaunded his prynces that on no wyse they sholde lette it / but sholde hel∣pe it in all that they coude (Vide plura in Esdre .v^o de .v^o tempore ambiguū {pro}pter diuersitatē docto{rum}.)