Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue, Treatise · Chapter 2
CHAP. II.
Hereticall translation of holy Scripture against Apostolicall TRADITIONS.
Martin.
THis is a matter of such importance, that if they1. shoulde graunt any traditions of the Apostles, and not pretende the written worde onelyonly: they know that by cSee the annotations of the nevv Testamēt 2. Thess. 2. 15.such traditions mentioned in all antiquitie, their religion were wholy defaced and ouerthrowen. For remedie whereof, and for the defacing of all such traditions, they bend their translations against them in this wonderfull maner. Wheresoeuer the holy Scripture speaketh against certaine traditions of the Iewes, partly friuolous, partly repugnant to the law of God, there all the English translations follow the Greeke exactly, neuer omitting this word, tradition. foreignContrariwise, wheresoeuer the holy Scripture speaketh in the commendation of Traditions, to wit, such traditions a… the Apostles deliuered to the Church, there all their sayd translations agree, not to followe the Greeke, which is still the selfe same word, but for, traditions, they translate, ordinaunces, or instructions. Why so and to what purpose? we appeale to the worme of their conscience, which continually accuseth them of an hereticall meaning, whether, by vrging the word, traditions, wheresoeuer they are discommended, and by suppressing the word, wheresoeuer they are commended, their purpose and intent be not, to signifie to the Reader, that all traditions▪ are naught, and none good, all reproueable, none allowable.
Fulke.
TRaditions in deede is a matter of such importance, as if you may be allowed whatsoeuer you will thrust vponupon vsus vnderunder the name of vnwritten traditions, the written worde of God shall serue to no purpose at all. For first as you plainly professe, the holy Scripture shall not be accounted sufficient to teach all truth necessary to saluation, that the man of God may be perfect, prepared to all good works. Secondly with the Valentinian heretikes, you accuse the Scriptures of vncertaine vnderstāding without your traditions, vnderunder pretense of which, you wil bring in what you list, though it be neuer so contrary to the holy Scriptures plaine wordes, by colour of interpretatiō, as you do the worshipping of images, & many other like heresies. As for the mention that is made of Apostolicall traditions in diuerse of the auncient fathers, some of thē are such, as you your selues obserue not, & not for the tenth part of those that you obserue, can you bring any testimony out of the ancient fathers, as is proued sufficiently by so many propositiōs as were set downe by the Bishoppe of Sarisburie M. Iewel, whereof you can bring no proofe for any one to hauehave bene taught within 600. yeres after Christ. Now concerning the traditions of the Apostles, what they were, who can be a better witnesse vntounto vsus than Ignatius the disciple of the Apostles, of whom Eusebius writeth, that when he was led towardes Rome where he suffred martyrdom, he earnestly exhorted the Churches, by which he passed, to continue in the faith, and against all heresies which euen then began to bud vp, he charged thē to retaine fast the traditiō of the Apostles, which by that time he protested to be committed to writing: for by that time were al the books of the new Testament written. The words of Eusebius concerning this matter are, li. 3. c. 35. foreign. And he exhorted thē straitly to kepe the tradition of the Apostles, which testifying that it was now for assurance cōmitted to writing, he thought necessary to be plainly taught. Against this tradition of the Apostles, which for certaintie & assurance is contained in their holy & vndoubted writings, we say nothing, but striue altogither for it. But because the word traditions, is by you Papistes taken to signifie a doctrine secretely deliuered by worde of mouth, without authority of the holy Scriptures, we do willingly auoide the word in our translations, where the simple might be deceiued, to think that the holy ghost did euer cōmēd any such to the church, which he would not hauehave to be committed to writing in the holy Scriptures: & in steede of that word so commōly taken, although it doth not necessarily signifie any such matters, we doe vse such wordes, as do truly expresse the Apostles meaning, & the Greke word doth also signifie. Therfore we vse the words of ordināces or instructiōs or institutiōs or the doctrine deliuered, all which being of one sense, the Greeke word foreign doeth signifie, and the same doth tradition signifie, if it be rightly vnderstoode: but seing it hath bene commonly taken, and is vrged of the Papistes to signifie only a doctrine deliuered beside the word of God written in such places where the holy Ghost vseth the Greeke worde foreign in that sense, we translate by that worde (tradition) where he vseth it for such doctrine as is groū ded vponupon the holy Scriptures, our translatours hauehave auoyded it, not of any hereticall meaning, that all foreign traditions are naught, but that all such as hauehave not the holy Scripture to testifie of them, and to warrant them, are euill, and to be auoyded of all true Christians, which can not without blasphemie, acknowledge any imperfection in the holy Scriptures of God, which are able to make a man wise vntounto saluation, if they shoulde thinke any doctrine necessarie to saluation not to be cō tained therein.
MART. 2. For example Matt. 15. Thus they translate, Why do thy disciples transgresse the TRADITION offoreign. the Elders? And againe, Why do you also transgresse the commaundement of God by your TRADITION? And againe. Thus hauehave you made the commaundement of God of no effect by your TRADITION: Here (I warrant you) all the bels sound tradition, and the word is neuer omitted, and it is very well and honesty translated, for so the Greeke worde doth properly signifie. But nowe on the other side, concerning good traditions, let vsus see their dealing. The Apostle2. Thess. 2. v. 15. foreign, tr… ditiones. by the selfe same worde both in Greeke and Latine, sayth thus: Therefore, brethren, stand and hold fast the TRADITIONS which you hauehave learned either by worde, or2. Thess. 3. 6. by our Epistle. And againe, Withdraw your selues from euerie brother walking inordinately, and not according to the TRADITION which they hauehave receiued of vsus. And againe (according to the Greeke which they professe to folow:) I praise you brethren, that in all things you are…. Cor. 15. 2. foreign.mindefull of me, and as I hauehave deliuered vntounto you, you keepe my TRADITIONS.
FVLK. 2. No maruell, though you can not abide the bels sounding against mans traditions, which sound must nedes pearce your cōscience more than it offendeth your eares, seeing you know that many of those things which you defend vnderunder the name of traditions, against the holy scriptures, hauehave not God for their auctor, which forbiddeth to be worshipped in such sorte, but man, or rather Sathan, which hath inspired such things vntounto mē, thereby to dishonor God, and to discredite his holy and most certaine written worde. Yet you say it is well and honestly translated. God knoweth how faine you would there were no such text extāt in the Gospel against your superstition and will worshipping. But now let vsus see our craftie dealing (as you compte it) against good traditions. In the first text 2. Thessal. 2. v. 15. You may see your vnderstanding of traditions, quite ouerthrowen. For the Apostle speaketh of such traditions as were deliuered to them partly by preaching & partly by his Epistle. Therfore tradition doth not signifie a doctrine deliuered by worde of mouth onelyonly. But yet you will say it signifieth here a doctrine deliuered by word of mouth also, which is not written. How proue you that? because all that the Apostle preached was not conteyned in his Epistles to the Thessalonians, therefore was it no where written in the Scriptures? what the tradition was in the second text▪ 2. Thess. 3. v. 6. is expressed by and by after: that he which will not labour must not eate. Was this doctrine neuer written before? when God commaundeth eueryevery man to labour in his vocation. As for the third place. 1. Cor. 11. 2. your owne vulgar Latine translater both teacheth vsus how to translate it, and also dischargeth our translation of heresie and corruption, for he calleth foreign in that place, praecepta precepts or instructions, or commaū dements, or ordinances, I see no great difference in these wordes. By which his translation he sheweth, that in the other places, 2. Thes. 2. & 3. He meaneth the same thing by traditiones, traditions, that we doe by ordinances or instructions, and might as well hauehave vsed the word praecepta▪ in those two places, as he did in this one, if it had pleased him.
MART. 3. Here we see plaine mention of S. Paules traditions, and consequently of Apostolicall traditions, yea and traditions by worde of mouth, deliuered to the saide Churches without writing or Scripture. In all whiche places looke, gentle reader, and seeke all their English translations, and thou shalt *Yet M. Fulke saith, it is found there. pag. 153. against D. Sand. Rocke. If he giuegive not vsus an instance, let him giuegive him selfe the lie.not once finde the worde, tradition, but in steede thereof, ordinances, instructions, preachings, institutions, and any worde else rather than, tradition. In so much that Beza their maister translateth it traditam doctrinam, the doctrine deliuered, putting the singular number for the plural, & adding, doctrine of his owne. So framing the text of holy Scripture according to his false commentarie, or rather putting his commentarie in the text, & making it the text of Scripture. Who would2. Thess. 2. & 3. foreign. thinke their malice and partialitie against traditions were so great, that they should all agree with one consent so duely and exactly in these and these places to conceale the worde, which in other places do so gladly vse it, the Greeke worde being all one in all the saide places?
FVLK. 3. There is no question but the Apostles by word of mouth, that is by preaching & teaching, deliuered the doctrine of the Gospel to the Churches, but that they preached taught or deliuered any doctrine, as necesarie to saluation, which they proued not out of the holy Scriptures, and which is not contained in the new Testamēt or the old, this is not yet proued, neither euer can it be proued. Such matters of ceremonies, order, & discipline, which are mutable, no man denies, but they might & did deliuer, but yet in them nothing but agreeable to the generall rules set downe in the Scripture. But in all these places the word tradition can not once be founde. Yet M. Fulke saith it is foūd. Yea doth? where saith he so? You answere pag. 153 against D. Saunders Rocke. Therfore if he giuegive not an instaunce, let him giuegive him selfe the lie. But he that chargeth Fulke to say it is found, lieth the more. For so he saith not: read the place who wil. He speaketh against Saunder, who affirmed that the very name of tradition vsed in the better part, can not be suffered to be in the Englishe Bible: as though there were some decree of the Synode, or Act of Parliament against it, and sayth: it may be and is suffered in that sense, which the holy Ghost vseth it, but not to bring prayer for the deade, or any thing contrarie to the Scripture vnderunder the name of traditions Apostolike. By which wordes I meane, that there is no prohibition or edict to the contrarie, but if any man will vse the worde tradition in translation of the Bible, he is permitted so to doe, I doe not affirme it is so founde. But as if I shoulde say. The Papistes in Englande are suffered to liue as becommeth good subiectes, I affirme not that they are, or shall be founde so to liue. But to omit this foolishe quarrell, Beza our Maister is sayed to hauehave translated foreign, the doctrine deliuered, putting the singular number for the plurall, and adding doctrine of his owne. What an hainous matter here is, the word doctrine is a collectiue, comprehending many precepts or traditions, and in the next chapiter, the Apostle vseth the same word in the singular number. Againe, the 1. Thes. 4. v. 2. he calleth the same foreign, precepts or documents, which worde signifieth the same that foreign, witnes your vulgar latin trāslator, which giues one word for both, praecepta, 1. Cor. 11. & 1. Thes. 4. And that the word doctrine is added to the text, it is a fonde cauil: for the word doctrine is cōtained in foreign, which signifieth a deliuerie▪ but whereof? …f not of doctrine. Our Sauiour Christ also, Math. 15. v. 9. by the testimony of Esay, reproueth the traditiō of the Pharisees, teaching the doctrines precepts of mē, which testimonye of Esay, could take no hold of thē, if traditiōs were not doctrines & precepts. So that in this trāslatiō of Beza, (cry out as lowd as you can) there is neither fraude nor corruptiō, malice nor partialitye, but a prudent declining of that terme, which might giuegive occasiō of error, & the Apostles meaning truly and faithfully deliuered. To shewe that one word may be diuersly trāslated, especially whē it signifieth diuers things, to wise mē is needeles. I hauehave said before you your selues translate, or else you should be taken for mad men, the Latine worde tradere (of which tradition is deriued) sometimes to deliuer, sometimes to betray, and yet the Greeke and Latine worde being all one in all the saide places.
MART. 4. Yea they doe else where so gladly vse this word, tradition, when it may tend to the discredit thereof: that they put the sayd word in all their English Bibles, with the like ful consent as before, when it is not in the Greeke at all. As when they translate thus, If ye be dead with Christ from the rudimētsCol. 2. 20. foreign.of the world: why as though liuing in the world, ARE YE LEDD… WITH TRADITIONS? and as an other *Of the yeare 1579.English translation of theirs readeth more heretically, Why are ye burdened with traditions? Tell vsus sincerely you that professe to hauehave skill in the Greeke, and to translate according to the Greeke: tell vsus we beseech you, whether this Greeke worde foreign doe signifie tradition, and foreign, to be lead or burdened with traditions. You can not be ignorantCol. 2. 1…. Ephes. 2. 15. that it doth not so signifie, but as a litle before in the same chapter, and in other places, your selues translate foreign, ordinaunces▪ foreign.decrees: so foreign, must be (as in the vulgar Latine it is) Quid decernitis? Why do you ordaine or decree, or, why are you ledde with decrees?
FVLK. 4. It grieueth you that tradition shoulde be mentioned so often in the ill part as it is. And it seemeth you would defend the Colossians against S. Paule, who reproueth them because they were led with ordinaunces according to the precepts and doctrines of men. But you seeme to make light of suche traditions, and therefore you count that the more hereticall translation, which sayth, why are you burthened with traditions? Wherfore I pray you is that more hereticall? Doe you not thinke that such traditions, as are the commaundements & doctrines of men, are burthenous to mens consciences? But they that hauehave skill in the Greeke tongue must tell you sincerely whether this word foreign doe signifie tradition, and foreign to be led or burdened with traditions. I answere you if foreign as you confesse, signifie ordinances and decrees or doctrines, and the worde tradition signifieth the same, why shoulde not foreign signifie to be ledde or burdened with traditions, as well as with ordinaunces, customes, or decrees. These wordes differ much in sounde, but not greatly in signification. Dogmata Pythagoraea that might neuer be put in writing, what were they but the traditions of Pythagoras. Such were the Philosophicall decrees called foreign whereof Tullie speaketh in his booke de finibus, which were dictata taught by worde of mouth, which to set foorth, among them was compted an heynous offence, might not those rightly be called traditions?
MART. 5. Iustifie your translation if you can, either out of Scriptures, fathers, or Lexicon. And make vsus a good reasonforeign they translate, ordinance: and foreign, tradition: cleane contrarie. why you put the worde, traditions, here, where it is not in the Greeke: and would not put it in the places before, where you know it is most euidently in the Greeke. Yea you must tell vsus, why you translate for tradition, ordinance, and contrarie for ordinance, tradition: so turning ca…te in panne (as they say) at your pleasure, and wresting both the one and the other to one end, that you may make the very name of traditions odious among the people, be they neuer so authenticall, euen from the Apostles: which your conscience knoweth, and you shal answere for it at the dreadfull day.
FVLK. 5. Firste out of Scripture I iustifie it thus: Those dogmata against which the Apostle writeth, were according to the precepts, & doctrines of men: but such the Scripture calleth traditions▪ Math. 15. Therfore these were traditions. Secōdly out of the fathers, Chrysostome vponupon this place saith, Traditiones graecorum taxat, he reproueth the traditions of the Greekes, saying all is but a humane doctrine. Secondly S. Ambrose vponupon this texte. LoueLove not the world sayth he, nor those errours Quos humana adinuenit traditio, which the tradition of men hath inuēted. And afterward, Sagina enim carnalis sensus humana traditio est. For the tradition of man is the pampering of carnal sense, by which he saith men are so burthened, that they cannot be ioyned to the head which is aboue. Yet burthening with traditions, is called of you the more heretical translation. Say as much to Ambrose, that he maketh an hereticall cōmentarie. The interpretor of Theodoret printed at Collen 1573. hath translated in the very text, for foreign, traditiones hominum traditions of mē. You see nowe this matter is not so voide of testimonie of the fathers, as you supposed. The reason you require vsus to make, is made often before. Wee thought it not meete, to expresse the Greeke worde in both places, by the same english word, because the english word as it is vsed by you, is not so indifferent, to signifie the doctrine of God deliuered out of the Scriptures: as to signifie doctrines of men deuised beside the Scriptures. If we must answere why we call tradition ordinance, and ordinance tradition: let your vulgar Latine interpreter answere vsus, or you for him, why he calleth tradition precept, and vsage or precept, traditiō? The one he doth 1. Cor. 11. v. 2. the other Act. 6. v. 14. where the Greeke is foreign signifying there precepts, or obseruations commaūded, he translateth traditiones, as in the other place the Greeke being foreign he translateth praecepta. If this be lawfull for him why should it be coūted corruptiō or false translation in vsus? seeing we are moued with as good reason, as can be yeelded for him. As for authentical and apostolicall traditions that are grounded vponupon the doctrine of the Apostles expressed in their writings, we shall be ready to receiue them, when so euer they shal be brought soorth. If they cānot be proued by the Scriptures, which are writtē that we might beleeue, and beleeuing hauehave eternall life, & which are able to make vsus wise vntounto saluatiō, we hauehave nothing to do with them: we may wel spare them: nay we dare not admit them, least we should answer for blasphemie against the holy Scriptures, in that dreadfull day, if by admitting of such traditiōs, we should professe, that the doctrine contained in the holy Scriptures, is vnperfect or insufficient to saluation.
MART. 6. Somewhat more excusable it is, but yet proceeding of the same hereticall humor, and on your parte (that should exactly folow the Greeke) falsely translated, when you translate in S. Peters Epistle thus: You were not redeemed1. Pet. 1. 18. with corruptible things frō your vaine conuersation receiued by the tradition of the fathers. Where the Greeke isforeign. thus rather to be translated, frō your vaine conuersation deliuered by the fathers. But your fingers itched to f…st in the word, tradition, and for, deliuered, to say, receiued, because it is the phrase of the Catholike Church, that it hath receiued many things by tradition, which you woulde here controll by likenesse of wordes in this false translation.
FVLK. 6. I maruaile why you should compte it an heretical humor, to vse the worde traditions in the euill part, which the holy ghost so vseth, and your owne vulgar translator also: but that you are more partial in allowing the traditions of mē, than we in auoiding the terme somtimes, only for doubt lest traditiōs of mē, should creepe into the place of Gods cōmandemēts. But how is it falsly translated on our part, that professe to folow the Greke, which is truly translated in your vulgar Latin text, which professeth to translate the Greeke, as well as we? belike because we say, receiued by the tradition of the fathers, which according to the Greeke should be, deliuered by the fathers, but that our fingers itched to foyst in the word tradition. What I pray you? hath your vulgar trāslator foisted in that word? did his fingers itch against such catholike phrases, that he would cōtrol thē by a false trā slation? do you not perceiue that while you raile vpō vsus▪ you reuile your owne vulgar Latin translatiō, which hath the same word traditiō, for which you storme against vsus? But for, deliuered, we hauehave said, receiued. See whether frowardnes driueth you, the Apostle saith, they were deliuered frō the vaine cōuersation of their fathers traditiō. Do you then vnderstād, that it was deliuered by the fathers, but not receiued by their sonnes? Certainely they were deliuered from that vaine conuersation which they had receyued. For receyuing doth necessarily importe deliuering. And because you called for a Lexicon in the next section before, Scapula will teach you, that foreign doth signifie, as indifferently A patre traditus as à patre acceptus, deliuered by the father, and receyued by the father. What wrangling then is this, about the moone shine in the water, to crie out false translation, foysting, itching fingers, and I know not what?
MART. 7. But concerning the worde tradition, you will say perhaps the sense thereof is included in the Greeke worde, deliuered. We graunt. But would you be content, if we should alwayes expresly adde, tradition, where it is so included? then should we say 1. Cor. 11. 2. I praise you that as I hauehave deliueredTradidi foreign ▪ you (by tradition,) you keepe my precepts or traditions. And againe v. 23. For I receiued of our Lord, which also I deliuered vntounto you (by tradition) &c. And Luc. 1. v. 2. As they (by tradition) deliuered vntounto vsus, which from the beginning sawe &c. and suche lyke, by your example, wee should translate in this sorte. But we vse not this licentious maner in translating holy Scriptures, neither is it a translators parte, but an interpreters, and his that maketh a commentarie: neither doth a good cause neede other translation than the expresse text of the Scripture giueth.
FVLK. 7. We will say it is contained in the Greeke worde foreign which signifieth receaued by tradition or deliuerie frō the Fathers, & not in the verbe foreign which signifieth otherwise many times, thā simply to deliuer, & when it signifieth to deliuer, it doth not alway signifie to deliuer by word of mouth, without writing, as you vnderstand tradition: but as well by writing, as by preaching. As when S. Paule saith, I receaued of the Lord, that which I deliuered vntounto vou, speaking of the institution of the supper, he meaneth that which the Euangelists had written, & he him selfe doth write. So 2. Thess. 2. when he willeth thē to hold the traditiōs, which they had learned of him, he speaketh not only of such as they learned by his preaching: but such also as they learned by his Epistle. Wherefore if you should expresly adde the worde tradition in your partiall signification, wheresoeuer you finde the word deliuered, you shoulde not onelyonly translate ridiculously, but also heretically and falsly. Wordes in deriuation and composition, doe not alwaies signifie according to their primitiue.
MART. 8. And if you will yet say, that our vulgar Latine translation hath here the worde, tradition: we graunt it hath so, and therefore we also translate accordingly. But you professe to translate the Greeke, and not the vulgar Latine, which you in England condemne as Papisticall, and say it is*Discouer. of the Rocke. pag. 147. Fraefat in nou… Test. 1556. the worst of all, though Beza your maister pronounce it to be the very best: and will you notwithstanding followe the sayde vulgar Latine, rather than the Greeke, to make traditions odious? Yea such is your partialitie one way, and inconstancie an other way, that for your hereticall purpose you are content to followe the olde Latine translation, though it differ from the Greeke, and againe another time you will not follow it, though it be all one with the Greeke most exactly. as in the place before alledged, where the vulgar Latine translation hath nothing of traditions, but, Quid decernitis, as it is in the Greeke: you*Col. 2. 20. translate, Why are ye burdened with traditions?
FVLK. 8. You may be sure we will saye, that we know to be true, and sufficient to discharge our translation from your foolish and malicious quarrelling. But we professe (you saye) to translate the Greeke, and not the vulgar Latine. And I pray you, what doth your vulgar Latine Interpreter professe to translate, but the Greeke? if he then translating out of Greeke, could finde tradition in the Greeke worde, why shoulde not we finde the same, especially being admonished by him: who if he translated truly, why are we blamed for doing as he did: if his translation be false, why is it allowed as the onelyonly authenticall text. We follow not therefore the Latine translation, but ioyne with it wheresoeuer it followeth the Greeke, as we doe in ten thousand places more than this, and willingly depart not from it, but where it departeth from the Greeke, or else vseth such wordes as would be offensiue, if they were translated into English, or occasion of errour, as you doe likewise, when you depart from the proper and vsuall signification of wordes, which your Latine translator vseth: as when you call foenerator, a creditor, which signifieth an vsurer, Luc. 7. Stabulum, an Inne, and stabularius, an host, Luc. 10. Vna Sabathi, the first of the Sabaoth, Iohn. 2. Ecclesia, the assembly, Act. 7. Baptismata, washings, Marc. 7. and such like. But we in England (you say) condemne the Latine translation, as papisticall. We accuse it as not true, in many places, & we saye it is the worst of all, though Beza, our maister, pronounce it to be the very beste. This toucheth me somewhat, for in the margent is noted Discouerie of the Rocke, pag. 147. where in deede speaking of the Hebrew text, of the olde Testament, and the Greeke of the newe, the Greeke translation of the Septuaginta, and the common Latine translation, I saye the Tridentine Councell alloweth none for authenticall, but the common Latine translation, that is, the worst of all. Now what sayth Beza contrary to this? speaking of the diuerse Latine translations of the new Testament onelyonly, he sayth of the vulgar Latine, that he followeth it for the most part, & preferreth it before all the rest, maxima ex parte amplector & caeteris omnibus antepono. So that I speake of the whole Bible, Beza of the new Testament only. I speake of the vulgar Latine text, in comparison of the originall Hebrew and Greeke, and the Septuagintaes translation: Beza of the Latine translation of the new Testament, in comparison of all other Latine translations, that were before him, as Erasmus, Castallion, and such like. According to your olde maner therefore, you rehearse out of my writings, either falsifying the words, or peruerting the meaning. These things considered, you hauehave no cause to accuse vsus of partialitie and inconstancie, for following, or leauing your Latine text, which we neuer did but vponupon good ground, and reason sufficient.
MART. 9. So that a blind man may see, you frame your translations to bolster your errours and heresies, without all respect of following sincerely either the Greeke or the Latine. But for the Latine no maruell, the Greeke at the least, why doe youforeign. not follow? Is it the Greeke that induceth you to say ordinancesforeign. for traditions, traditions for decrees, ordinances for iustifications,foreign. Elder for Priest, graue for hell, image for idoll? tell vsus beforeforeign. God, and in your conscience, whether it be, because you willforeign. exactly follow the Greeke: nay, tell vsus truly, and shame the diuell,foreign. whether the Greeke words doe not sound, and signifie most properly that, which you of purpose will not translate, for disaduantaging your heresies? And first let vsus see concerning the question of Images.
FVLK. 9. A blind man may see, that you cauill, and slaunder, quarrell and raile, without respect either of cō science towards God, or honestie toward the world: in so much, that most commonly, you forget the credit of your owne vulgar Latine translation, so you may hauehave a colour to find fault with ours. And yet againe you aske, whether it be the Greeke, which induceth vsus to say, for foreign, ordinances, and for foreign, traditions, &c. I tell you, the Greeke alloweth vsus so to say, which is sufficient, when other godly causes moue vsus beside, so to translate. Is it the Latine that induceth you to say, for an vsurer, aFaenerator. Stabulum.creditor: for a stable, an Inne: for, what was done, whatQuod factum. was chaunced: for, fastening to, crucifying: for, be you saued,Act. 5. saue your selues: for, creature, creation: for, confessed,Affigentes, act. 2. promised: for a boate, a shippe: for a shippe, a boate:Saluamini, act. 7. Confessus, act. 7.for singing, piping: for hay, grasse: for refection, refectorie:Nauiculas, luc. 5. for foolishnes, madnes: for an image, an idoll, &c. INauis, marc. 4. blame not all these as false translations, yet eueryevery manCecinimus, mat. 11. Fanum, mat. 14.may see, they are neither vsuall, nor proper: yet as forRefectio, mar. 14. some of these (though not for all) I know you may giuegiveInsipientia, luc. 6. good reason, so may we, for any shew of alteration, orSimulachrum. departing from the vsuall signification of the Greeke word, that you are able to alledge against vsus.