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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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holy day
in vertue prayer and hearinge the worde of god / in
almosdede / in visitynge the sycke / the nedie and
comfortelesse and so forth / but
went vp & downe ydlye / yet what soeuer nede his
neyghboure had / he wolde not haue holpe hym on the saboth daye
/ as thou mayst se by the ruler of the synagoge which rebuked
christ for healinge the
people on the holy daye luke .xiij.
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almosdede] ed., almosede [1531], almosedede [1573]
How the Saboth day should be occupyed.[1573]
the ruler . . .
holy daye. Cf. Luke 13.14.
Luke 13.14
Luke. 13. [1531]
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And of like blyndnesse they went and fett out the
brasen serpent (which Moses commaunded to be kepte in the arcke
for a memorie) and offered before it: thinkynge (no doute) that
god must be there
present / for else how coude yt haue healed the people that came
not nye yt / but stode afarre off and beheld yt only. And a
thousand soch
madnesses did they.
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brasen serpent.
Made by Moses, cf. Num. 21.9. Destroyed by Hezekiah after it became an
object of idolatry, cf. 2 Kings 18.4.
Numbers 21.9
2 Kings 18.4
The brasen serpent [1531]O
ed., serpens [1531],
Serpent [1573]
madnesses] ed., madnessesse [1531], madnesse [1573]
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And of the temple they thought that god herd them
there better
then any were else: ye and he hearde them nowhere
saue there. And therfore they coude not praye but there / as
oures can no where but
at church and before an ymage. For what prayar can a
man praye /
when the woorde of god is not in the temple of hys
herte: ye and
when soch come to church / what is their prayer and
what is their
deuocyon / saue the blynde imageseruice of their
hertes.
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The temple [1531]
temple . . .
there. Cf. Jer. 7.9–15.
Jeremiah 7.9–15
prayar. Prayer is
the longing of the believer for the effects of God's promises (Mammon F2v, Obedience Q7,
Introduction to Romans
a4v). It consists of praise, thanksgiving, and petitions for
defense against temptation (Matthew
14, n4v—n6v). It is not the empty pattering of
longer hours in choir and more numerous Masses for the Dead (Obedience Q3v-R1). For Tyndale, the believing
heart is a true temple because the word dwells there as source of prayer
[F1, “they coulde not . . . hys herte”].
Prayer without fayth is no prayer.[1573]
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But the prophetes euer rebuked them for soch
faythlesse workes and for soch false fayth in theyr workes. In
the .xlix. psalme saith the prophete / I wil receaue no calues
of youre houses ner gottes out of youre foldes / thinke ye that
I will eate the flesh of oxen or drynke
the bloude of gottes? And Esaias saith in his first
chaptre / what care I for the multitude of your sacryfyces
sayth the lorde. I am full. I haue
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Psal. 49. [1531] O
ed., Psal. 46. [1531], [1573]
God despised the sacrifices of the unfaithfull Iewes.[1573]
.xlix. psalme . .
. gottes. Ps. 50.9, 13. Answer gives the
Vulgate number, cf. [E6v, “psalme .xlix. . . . glorifie me” and commentary note].
Psalms 50.9, 13
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