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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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Then they went further in the imagination
of their blynd reason sayenge / in as moch as god accepteth
these holy workes / that we be made righteous therby / then it
foloweth that he whyche offereth most / is most rightewesse and
the best man: ye and it is better to offer an oxe then a shepe
/ because it is more costly. And
so they stroue who might offer most / and the
prestes were well
apayde. Then went they further in their fleshly
wisdome sayenge: if I be good for the offeringe of a doue and
better for a shepe and yet better for an oxe / and so euer the
better thynge I offer / the better I am / Oh how accepted shuld
I be if I offered a man / and namelye him that I most loued? And
vppon that imaginacion / they offered their awne children and
burnt them to asshes before images that they had imagined.
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EXODUS: 20.24: 65/31
[Hand] [1531]
115/2
In the .vij.
Refutation of More's specific arguments on the role of the saints is the
principal topic of the rest of Tyndale's response to Dialogue Bk. 2. Tyndale's constructive views on
the saints are treated above in 59/7–16, 83/13–18 nn. (JW)
115/2
saintes . . .
counsels. Cf. CWM 6/1.209/25, 29.
LEVITICUS: 12.8: 66/3
LUKE: 2.24: 66/3
LEVITICUS: 18.21: 66/6–7
DEUTERONOMY: 18.10: 66/6–7
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And to confirme their blyndnesse they layde for them
(nodoute) the ensample of Abraham which offered his sonne Isaac
and was so accepted / that god had promised him / how that in
his seed / all the
world shuld be blessed. Herof ye se vn to what
abhominacion blynd reason bryngeth a man / when she is
destitute of gods worde.
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115/9–10
good and bad . . .
evell. Cf. CWM 6/ 1.210/8–10.
GENESIS: 22.9–18: 66/10–12
115/12–14
not . . . doo
it. Cf. CWM 6/1.210/13–16.
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And to speake of the sabbath / which was ordeyned to
be their
saruaunte & to preach & be a signe vn to
them / that god thorow his holy spirite & worde did
sanctifie them / in that they obeyed his
commaundementes & beleued and trusted in his
promises (& therfore were charged to leaue workynge and to
come on the holy daye
& heare the worde of god by which they were
sanctified) vn to it
also they became captiue and bonde to sarue it /
sayenge that they were iustified by absteynynge from bodyly
laboure (as oures thinke al so) in so moch that though they
bestowed not the
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EXODUS: 31.12–17: 66/14
Holyday [1531]
/ which] ed., (which 1531,
1573
Exo. 31. [1531]
115/17–18
the saintes . .
. liued. Cf. CWM 6/1.211/30–31. More argues that the
saints will not have less charity in heaven than they had on earth (cf.
CWM 6/1.211/23–25).
were] 1573, vere [1531]
115/20
they haue . . .
heare them. Luke 16.29.
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