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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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no lust in the burnt offeringes of youre rammes or in the fatt
of fatt beestes or bloud of calues / lambes or gottes: offer me
no moare soch false sacryfyce. And therto youre swete cense ys an
abhominacion vnto me. And thus he said because of the
false fayth and peruertynge the ryght vse of them.
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what . . .
gottes. Isa. 1.11.
Isaiah 1.11
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And for their false fastinge / not referrynge theyr
fast vnto the tamynge and subduynge of theyr flesh vnto the
spirite / when they complayned vnto god iustifienge them selues
and saynge / how happeneth it / that we haue fasted and thou
woldest not loke vppon it /
we haue humbled oure soules and thou woldest not know
it. God
answered them by the prophete Esayas in the .lviij.
chaptre / behold
/ in the daye of youre fast / ye doo youre awne
lustes and gather
vpp all youre dettes. And how soeuer ye fast / ye
neuer the later striue and fight and smyte with fyste cruelly.
I haue chosen no soch faste and humblynge of soule, &c. But
that ye louse weked bondes
and lett the oppressed goo fre / and to breake breed
vnto the hongrye and to cloth the naked and so forth.
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Fastynge [1531]
referrynge theyr
fast . . . spirite. Cf. CWM 8/1.64/2–3. Tyndale accepts fasting
only as a means of taming the flesh, cf. 1 Cor. 9.27, Col. 3.5, but he
rejects it as a form of works-righteousness. He discusses the
proper methods and motives for fasting in
Mammon (F1r—v). In commenting on Matt. 6.16–18,
he will discuss fasting extensively in Matthew, e.g., in Advent and Lent (k8v) and on the seasonal
Ember Days and fasts in honor of Mary (l5); cf. Duffy (41). Relying
solely on the merits of Christ, Tyndale would reject the idea of fasting
as satisfaction for sin, as defended by the dramatis
persona of Antony in Dialogue of
Comfort, 1534–35 (CWM 12.95/10–96/11).
Matthew 6.16–18
1 Corinthians 9.27
Colossians 3.5
Supersti[ti]ous fasting doth God abhorre.[1573]
how . . . know
it. Isa. 58.3.
Isaiah 58.3
Esai. 58. [1531]
neuer the later] neuerthelesse [1573]
behold . . .
naked. Isa. 58.3–7.
Isaiah 58.3–7
True fasting, what it is.[1573]
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And concerninge the temple / Esaias sayth in hys
last chaptre. What housse wyll ye bild for me or in what place
shall I rest? heuen
is my sete and the erth my fote stole. As who shuld
saye I am to
greate for any place that ye can make / and (as
steuen sayth actes .vij.
and paul actes .xvij.) I dwell not in a temple made
with handes.
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Temple [1531]
What . . . fote
stole. Isa. 66.1. Answer reverses the
order of the OT, putting the rhetorical question before the answer.
Isaiah 66.1
steuen. cf. Acts
7.49–50, quoting Isa. 6.1–2.
Isaiah 6.1–2
Acts 7.49–50
Actes .7. [1531]
paul. cf. Acts
17.24.
Acts 17.24
Actes .17. [1531]
.xvij.)] ed., xvij.( [1531], .xvij. [1573]
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¶How ceremonies sprange amonge vs
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