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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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moch as we be ouerladen with our awne / I se no cause why we
shuld become
Iewes / to obserue their ceremonies to.
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And when he saith holy straunge gestures. I
answere / for the holynesse I wyll not swere: but the
straungenesse I dare well avowe. For euery prest maketh them
of a sundrie maner and many moare madly then the gestures
of Iackanapes. And when he saith that they were left from
hand to hand sens the appostles tyme / it is vntrue. For the
appostles vsed the sacrament as Christ did / as thou maist se .1. Corin .xj. Morouer the appostles left vs in the light and taught
vs all the counsell of God / as Paule
wittenesseth Actes .xx. and hid nothinge in straunge holy
gestures and apes playe the significacions wherof noman
might vnderstonde.
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holy straunge gestures. CWM
6/1.56/4.
left . . . tyme.
Cf. CWM 6/1.56/6–7. Tyndale omits More's qualifying phrase, "greate
parte wherof" (CWM 6/1.56/6).
For . . . did.
Cf. 1 Cor. 11.23–26.
Paule . . .
nothinge. Cf. Acts 20.27.
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And a Christen man is moare moued to pitie saith
he / at the sight of the crosse / then with out it. If he
take pitie as English men doo /
for compassion / I saye / that a Christen man is
moued to pitie when he seith his brother beare the crosse.
And at the sight of the crosse /
he that is lerned in god / wepith not Christe
with ignoraunt wemen /
as a man doeth his father when he is deed: but
morneth for his synnes / and att the sight of the crosse
comforteth his soule with the consolacion of him that died
theron. But their is no sight whether
of the crosse or ought else / that can moue you
to leue youre wekednesse / for the testament of god is not
written in youre hertes.
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moare . . . with
out it. Cf. CWM 6/1.56/23–24.
And at the sight .
. . deed. Tyndale voices a common 16c critique of the emphasis
on compassion with the suffering Christ in late medieval piety. Erasmus
had warned against a merely natural pity for Christ's
sufferings in the Seventeenth Rule of the Enchiridion, 1503 (Holborn 117/12–13; CWE 66.110). Luther was
also critical of this form of affective participation in the passion of
Jesus in Freedom of a Christian, 1520 (WA
7.29/11–13; LW 31.357). Cf. "Passion (mystique de la)" in Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, ed. Marcel Viller
SJ et al., 17 vols. including Index (Paris: Beauchesne, 1937–95)
12.329–32; F.Vandenbroucke, "La devotion au
Crucifié à la fin du moyen âge," Maison Dieu, no.
75 (1963) 133–43.
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And when he speaketh of prayenge at church who
denyeth him that men might not praye at church or that the
church shuld not be a place of prayar? But that a man coude
not praye sa
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prayenge at
church. Cf. CWM 6/1.57/34–36.
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