VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural

moch as we be ouerladen with our awne / I se no cause why we shuld become Iewes / to obserue their ceremonies to.

ceremonies] [1573], ceromonies [1531]

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.

Holy straunge gestures [1531]OX gestures is like an apes play. [1573]

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.

] 1 Corinthians

1. Co. 11. [1531]

Paule . . . nothinge. Cf. Acts 20.27.

] Acts

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.

moare . . . with out it. Cf. CWM 6/1.56/23–24.

Pitie [1531]

Christe] om. [1573]

doeth] doth for [1573]

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.

The true beholdyng of the signe of the crosse.[1573]

] Jeremiah

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

prayenge at church. Cf. CWM 6/1.57/34–36.

The Church is a place of prayer.[1573]