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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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God did not hate paul / when he
persecuted but had layd vpp mercy for him in store / though
he was angre wyth hym to scorge
hym and to teach him better. Nether were those
thynges layd on his backe which he after sofered / to make
satisfaccion for his foresinnes
/ but only to serue hys brethern and to kepe
the flesh vnder. Nether did god hate Dauid when he had
synned / though he was angre with him. Nether did he after
sofre to make satisfaccyon to god for hys olde synnes / but
to kepe his flesh vnder and to kepe
hym in mekenesse and to be an ensample for oure
lernynge.
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when . . .
better. Cf. Acts 9.1–18, Gal. 1.13–16.
Acts 9.1–18
Galatians 1.13–16
2 Corinthians 12.7
Colossians 1.24
serue hys
brethern. Cf. Col. 1.24; kepe the flesh
vnder. Cf. 2 Cor. 12.7.
Dauid . . .
synned. Cf. 2 Sam. 11–12.1–25.
2 Samuel 11–12.1–25
The new life doeth tame the flesh and serue hyr neyboure. [1531]
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iiij.
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iiij.] The iiij. Chapter. [1573]
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In the fourth saith he if the church were an vnknowen
companie /
how shuld the infydeles / yf they longed for
the faith / come therby?
O whother wandereth a fleshly minde / as though we first
sought out god. Nay / God knoweth his and seketh them out
and sendeth his mesingers vnto them and geueth them an hert
to vnderstonde. Dyd the hethen or any nacyon seke chryste?
Nay / christ sought them and sent hys appostles vnto them.
As thou seyst in the storyes from the begynnynge of the
worlde and as the parables and similitudes of the gospell
declare.
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if . . .
therby. Cf. CWM 6/1.200/29–34.
as . . . god.
Cf. 1 John 4.10.
1 John 4.10
God seketh vs and we not hym. [1531]
christ . . . vnto
them. Cf. Matt. 28.19, Mark 16.15, Luke 24.47.
Matt. 28.19, Mark 16.15,
Luke 24.47
storyes . . .
declare. For God's mercy to Adam and Eve after the
Fall, cf. Gen. 3.9–24. For the liberation of a remnant from the
Babylonian captivity, cf. Ezek. 34.11. For the extension of Yahweh's favor to the Gentiles, cf. the three foreign women in the
genealogy of Jesus: the Canaanite Rahab, cf. Josh. 2.1–21;
the Moabite Ruth, cf. Ruth 1.4; the Hittite Bathsheba, cf. 2 Sam. 11.3.
God's quest for the lost soul is depicted in the parables of the lost
sheep and the lost coin, cf. Luke 15.4–6, 8–9.
Genesis 3.9–24
Joshua 2.1–21
Ruth 1.4
2 Samuel 11.3
Ezekiel 34.11
Luke 15.4–6
Luke 15.8–9
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And when he saith / he neuer founde ner herd of any of vs /
but that he wold forswere to saue his life. Answere / the
moare wrath of god will light on them / that so cruelly
delite to torment them
and so craftely to begyle the weake. Neuer
thelesse yet it is vntrue. For he hath hearde of sir Thomas
hitton whom the bisshopes of Rochester and caunterbury slew
at maydstone and of many that sofered in braband holland
and at colen and in all
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More a lying papist.[1573]
he neuer . . .
life. Cf. CWM 6/1.201/21–22.
vntrue] [1573], vntue [1531]
sir Thomas
hitton. To counter Dialogue's claim that
reformers would not die for their beliefs (cf. CWM
6/1.201/20–22), Tyndale asserts Hitton's perseverance unto death (Prelates K6). Confutation
calls Hitton "the dyuyls stynkyng martyr" (CWM 8/1.17/1), and Apology opposes Hitton's execution near
Canterbury to Becket's martyrdom in Canterbury (CWM 9.355).
Foxe briefly summarizes Hitton's imprisonment and death at Maidstone in 1530 (4.619) and his interrogations by Warham and Fisher
(8.712–15). Cf. [commentary notes to I6v, “heretikes . . . abiure”; M4, “no iudge . . . inconuenientes”; R5v, “ye deliuer . . . asshes”].
Sir Thomas hitton [1531]
caunterbury.
William Warham (c1456–1532) was Lord Chancellor (1504–15)
until he was replaced by Wolsey, and Archbishop of Canterbury (1503–32)
until his death. On 15 May 1532, the higher clergy of the Archdiocese of
Canterbury accepted the king's authority to license the legislative acts
of the English Church, and the next day, Warham as Primate presented the
document of submission to Henry. Later the same day, More
resigned from the Chancellorship (NCE 14.811; OER 4.257–58). In the Obedience, Tyndale accuses Warham of wanting to
keep the NT as the secret of priests and a mystery to layfolk (K2v).
Here, Tyndale condemns Warham and Fisher for their part in burning
Thomas Hitton alive for importing a Tyndale NT in 1529.
in braband. A
reference to the vigorous imperial prosecution of Lutherans in. the
Spanish Netherlands. The first victims were two Antwerp Augustinian
friars, Heinrich Voes and Johann van Esch, who were burned in the Great
Square of Brussels on 1 July 1523. Luther was deeply moved by news of
their deaths and composed both an open letter of
encouragement to the surviving reformers in the Low
Countries, Ein Brief an die Christen im Niederland
(WA 12.77–80; not in LW), and a ballad (WA 35.411–15; not in LW).
Erasmus comments on this event in Ep. 1384, To Huldrych Zwingli, Basel,
31 August [1523] (Allen 5.327/4–6; CWE
10.81/5–7). He refers to the execution of these two friars and of Louis
de Berquin in April 1529 in Ep. 2188, To Charles Utenhove, Freiburg, 1
July 1529 (Allen 8.210/11–211/31; not yet in CWE).
at colen. The
Cologne faculty of theology had condemned numerous propositions found in
Luther's works even before the papal bull Exsurge
Domine. In 1529 a quickly conducted heresy trial resulted in
the burning of the Lutherans Adolph Clarenbach and Peter Fliesteden.
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