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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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folow their damnable wayes / by whom the waye of trouth
shalbe evel spoken of / and
with fayned wordes they shall make marchaundice
ouer you. Now
saith Paul Roma. iij. the law speaketh vn to
them that are vnder the law. And euen so this is spoken of
them that professe the name of christe. Now the pope hath
.x. thousand sectes cropen in / as pied in their consciences as
in their cotes / settynge vpp a thousand maner
workes to be saued by / whych is the denyenge of
Christe. And we se many and all most all to gether folow
their damnable wayes. And in that Peter said that they
shall rayle and blaspheme the trueth / it
foloweth that there shalbe a litle flocke
reserued by the hand of god to testifie the trueth vn to
them or else how coude they rayle on it? And it foloweth
that those raylars shalbe the mightier parte in the world /
or else they durst not do it. Now what truth in christ doeth not the pope rebuke and in settynge vpp false workes denie all to gether? And as for their fayned wordes / where findest thou
in all
the scripture purgatory / shrift penaunce / pardon /pena
culpa / yperdulia and a thousande fayned termes moo? And as
for their marchaundice / loke whether they sell not all gods
lawes and also their awne / and all synne and all Christes
merites and all that a man can thynke. To one he selleth the
faute only and to a nother the faute and the payne to / and
purgeth his purse of his money and his
braynes of his wittes / and maketh him so
beestely / that he can vnderstonde no godly thynge.
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there . . . ouer
you. 2 Pet. 2.1–3. Tyndale's Prologue to 2 Peter concludes with
a brief outline of the epistle taken from Luther's 1530 revised preface.
The whole second chapter is accordingly Peter's prophetic
description of conditions in the era of papal rule and the dominance of
human, not godly, doctrine (WA/DB 7.315; not in LW).
law . . .
law. Rom. 3.19.
Now . . .
Christe. Tyndale follows Luther's proemium to his exegesis of Dan. 8.23–25 in the Responsio to Ambrosius Catharinus, 1521 (WA
7.726f; not in LW), where the "sectes" are identified as the religious
orders, each of which has a different garb and a rule prescribing
certain works as a way to salvation. For the clothing of the various
orders, cf. [A5v, “monkes / freres / blacke / whit / pied / grey” and commentary note].
they . . .
trueth. Cf. 2 Pet. 2.2.
pena culpa. This
Latin term meaning absolution "from punishment and guilt" was
coined by Peter Lombard and adopted by Aquinas (Summa I, Q. 48, Art. 5). God discharges the guilt in view of
the penitent's contrition and faith; the priest remits the punishment
of eternal damnation upon the penitent's confession and
satisfaction. Tyndale asserts that Christ's
satisfaction for sin cancels out these legalistic measures. Cf. [M7v, “a pena et a culpa”; Q7, “forgeuenesse a pena & culpa”];
Obedience N7, V8; 1 John A2V, A3v, B6.
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And Christ saith Mathew .xxiiij. their shal false
anoynted arise
and shew signes and wonders: that is / they
shall shew miracles and so pre
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