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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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be Abrahams seed / are they all Abrahams chyldren: but they
only that folow the faith of Abraham. Euen so now none of them
that beleue wyth theyr mouthes moued wyth the auctoryte of
theyr elders only: that ys / none of them that beleue wyth
Master Mores fayth / the
popes fayth and the deuels fayth whych maye stonde
(as Master
More confesseth) with al maner abhominacyons / haue
the ryght fayth of christ or are of hys church. But they only
that repent and
fele that the law is good / And haue the law of god
written in their hertes and the fayth of oure sauioure Iesus /
even wyth the sprite of God. There is a carnall Israel and a
spirituall. There ys Isaac and Ismael
/ Iacob and Esau. And Ismael
persecuted Isaac and Esau
Iacob
and the fleshly the spiritual. Wherof paul complayned in hys
tyme persecuted of hys carnall brethern / as we doo in oure tyme
and as the electe euer dyd and shall doo tyll the worldes ende.
What a multitude came out of Egypte vnder Moses of whych the
scripture testifyeth that they beleued / moued by the miracles
of Moses / as Simon
magus beleued by the reason of philippes miracles
actes .viij. Neuer the lesse the scripture testyfieth that. vj.
hundred thousand of those beleuers peryshed thorow vnbeleffe and
lefte theyr carcasses in the wildernesse and neuer entred in to
the lond that was promysed them. And euen so shall the childern
of Master Mores faythlesse fayth made by the persuasyon of man
/ leppe shorte of the rest
whych oure sauioure Iesus is rysen vnto. And therfore
lett them enbrace thys present worlde as they doo / whose
chyldern they are though they hate so to be called.
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101/26–27
Christ . . .
faith. Cf. Mark 10.30, John 16.33.
101/27–29
And the stories
. . . ensamples. Cf. 1 Cor. 10.11.
101/29
miracles.
Irenaeus of Lyons (c130–200) describes miracles performed by
post-apostolic Christians in Against Heresies
2.32.4 (PG 7.828–30; ANF 1.409). For miracles after the discovery of
Stephen's relics in 415, cf. 83/12–13n.
102/1–6
Antichristes . . .
lies. 2 Thess. 2.9–11. Answer has
"conceyued " (102/4), while NT has "receaved" (Wallis 436/17;
TNT 306C). Answer has "stronge delusion or gyle"
(102/5); NT has only "stronge delusion" (Wallis 436/I8;TNT 306C).
The Lollard text critical of the papacy cites part of 2 Thess. 2.9–11,
cf. Hudson 126/156–59. Although the term "Antichrist" does not occur in
these verses, Luther's 1522 preface to the epistle says that Ch. 2 shows
that the Antichrist will establish himself in Rome, a point included in
Tyndale's prologue to the epistle (WA/DB 7.251; not in LW). Luther cited
2 Thess. 2.9–11 five times in his 1521 treatment of Daniel's prophecy,
but he did not emphasize, as
Tyndale does, its foretelling of papal wiles,
obduracy, and persecution of critics. (JW)
102/13–14
miracles . . .
prophetes. Cf. Matt. 7.22.
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