The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ The .xii. Chapter

[illustration]

The .xii. fygure.

ANd ther appered a gret wonder in hevē [ A] * 1.1 A woman clothed with the sunne / and the mone vnder her fete / and apon her heed a croune of xii. starres. And she was w^t

chylde and cryed travayllinge in byrth / & pay¦ned redy to be delyvered. And ther appered a¦nother wonder in heven / for beholde a gret red dragō / havynge .vii. heddes / & ten hornes and crounes vpō his heddes: & his tayle drue the thyrde parte of the starres / and cast them to the erth.

And the dragon stode before the woman [ B] which was reddy to be delyvred: for to de∣voure her chylde as sone as it were borne. And she brought forth a man chylde / which shulde rule all nacions with a rode of yron And her sonne was taken vp vnto God / and to his seate. And the woman fleed into wyl∣dernes / where she had a place / prepared of god / that they shulde fede her there a M .ii. C and lx. dayes.

And ther was grett battayll in heven / Mi∣chael & his angells fowght with the dragon and the dragon fowght and his angelles / and prevaylled not: nether was their place foun∣de eny more in heven. And the grett dragon / that olde serpent called the devyll and Satha¦nas was cast out. Which desceaveth all the worlde. And he was cast into the erth / & his angelles were cast out also.

And I harde a lowde voyce sayinge: in hevē [ C] is nowe made salvaciō & strengthe & y^e kyng¦dome of oure God / & the power of his Christ For he is cast doune which accused them be¦fore god daye and nyght. And they over∣came him by the bloude of the lambe / and by the worde of their testimony / and they lo¦ved

not their lyves vnto the deeth. Therfore reioyce hevens / and ye that dwell in them. Woo to the inhabiters of the erth / and of the see: for y^• devyll is come doune vnto you which hath greet wrath / because he knoweth that he hath but a short tyme.

And when the dragon sawe / that he was caste vnto the erth / he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man chylde. And to the woman were geven two wynges of a great [ D] egle / that she myght flye into the wyldrenes / into her place / where she is norysshed for a ty¦me / tymes / and halffe a tyme / from the presen¦ce of the sarpent. And the dragon cast out of his mouth water after the woman as it had bene a ryver because she hulde have bene caught of the floud. And the erth holpe the woman / and the erth opened her mouth / and swalowed vp the rever which the dragon cast out of hys mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman: and went and made warre with the remnaunt of hyr sede / which kepe the commaundmentes of god / and have the testimony of Iesus Christe. And I stode on the see sonde.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The .xii. fygure.