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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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And because they haue runne cleane
contrary vn to that good law they sorow and morne / and
because also their bodies and
flesh are otherwise disposed. But the preacher
comforteth them and sheweth them the testament of Christes
bloud / how that for his sake
all that is done is forgeuen / and al their
wekenesse shalbe taken a
worth vn tyll they be stronger / only if they
repent and will submitte
them selues to be scolars and lern to kepe this
law. And litle flocke receaueth this testament in his hert
and in it walketh and serueth God / in the spirite. And from
hence forth al is christ with him / and
christ is his and he christes. Al that he
receaueth / he receaueth of
christe / and all that he doeth / he doeth to
christe. Father mother /
master / lord & prince ar christ vnto him /
and as christ he serueth them with al loue. His wife /
childern / saruauntes and subiectes are
christ vn to him / and he teacheth them to
serue christ and not him selfe and his lustes. And if he
receaue any good thinge of man / he
thanketh God in christ / which moued the mans
herte. And his neyboure he serueth as Christ in all his
nede / of soch thynges as god hath lent / because that all
degrees are bought as he is / with christes bloude.
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155/28–33
And therfore ...
of Christe. Tyndale interprets "the husband of one
wyfe" (1 Tim. 3.2; Wallis 443/6; TNT 310A) as St. Paul's positive
prescription for those selected for the office of bishop or priest. More
had taken the text as a temporary concession amid the
circumstances of the nascent church and as excluding those
who had remarried as widowers (CWM 6/1.303/24–308/20). But Tyndale
follows Luther and Zwingli in their prescriptive
interpretation. For Luther, cf. To the Christian
Nobility, 1520 (WA 6.440–43; LW 44.175–79) and Babylonian Captivity, 1520 (WA 6.557; LW
36.101f). Zwingli cited 1 Tim. 3.2 in 1522 as an apostolic text that
stands in the way of compulsory celibacy, both in his Supplicatio to Bishop Hugo of Constance and in his Freundliche Bitte to the confederates of Zürich.
Cf. Sämtliche Werke 1.205, 231f; Huldreich
Zwingli, Selected Works, ed. Samuel Macauley Jackson (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P,
1901) 35. (JW)
155/30–32
one wife . . .
liuynge. Cf. 1 Tim. 3.2.
156/1–3
wedowes . . .
behauoure. Cf. 1 Tim. 5.9–10. Tyndale discusses the
services performed by sixty—year old widows in the early church (Prelates B4v). After Louis
II of Hungary (king, 1516–26) died fleeing from the Turks at
Mohács, his twenty-yearold widow Mary of Austria declined to
remarry, contrary to the counsel of Erasmus in On the
Christian Widow, 1529 (LB 5.723C—766E; CWE 66.184–257).
Instead, from 1531 to 1555 she served as Regent of the Netherlands for
her brother Charles V. Tyndale was executed
under her adminstration by a decree that Foxe (5.127) alleged had been
enacted at the Diet of Augsburg.
156/5–6
mocke . . . one
man. Cf. CWM 1/1.306/32–307/4.
156/6
wedowe . . . one
man. Cf. 1 Tim. 5.9.
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And he wil not besaued / for seruinge his brethern / nether
promiseth his brethern heuen for seruinge him. But heuen /
iustifienge /
forgeuenesse / all gyftes of grace and al that
is promised them they receaue of Christ and by his merites
frely. And of that which they
haue receaued of christ they serue ech other
frely as one hand doeth the other / sekinge for their
seruice nomoare then one hand doeth of
a nother eche the others health / wealth helpe /
ayde / succoure and to assiste one a
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156/19–20
It was . . .
fete. Cf. 1 Tim. 5.10.
156/21
founde . . .
congregacion. 1 Tim. 5.16.
156/21–22
destitute of
frendes. Cf. 1 Tim. 5.5.
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