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.
HEBREWS: 13.20: 89/1–2,90/9, 98/5,106/31,145/15
a worth] in
worth 1573
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.
JEREMIAH: 23.3: 52/16,100/27, 105/7, 105/9, 106/19, 107/2, 107/27,
107/29, 108/28, 109/3, 122/2
litle] a little 1573
1 CORINTHIANS: 3.23: 107/5
156/5–6
mocke . . . one
man. Cf. CWM 1/1.306/32–307/4.
he christes] he is
Christes 1573
MATTHEW: 25.40: 79/20–21, 107/6, 201/24–25
156/6
wedowe . . . one
man. Cf. 1 Tim. 5.9.
[Hand] [1531]
ar christ] are Christes
1573
them] 1573, then [1531]
thanketh] 1573, tanketh [1531]