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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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submitte our selues to be scolars of the same scole.
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M. they maye not abyde salue regina. T. for
therin is moch blasphemie
vnto our blessed lady / because christ is our
hope and life only and not she. And ye in asscribynge vn to
hir that she is not /
dishonoure god and worshepe hir not.
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they . . . salue
regina. Cf. CWM 6/1.359/34–35, 8/1.314/
12–13. Erasmus agrees with the executed
heretic Louis de Berquin that the title, spes et vita
nostra or "our hope and life," belongs properly to Christ not
Mary. Cf. Ep. 2188, To Charles Utenhove, Freiburg, 1 July 1529 (Allen
8.212/103–5; not yet in CWE). After his resignation from the
chancellorship, More teased his family that, as a last resort, they
could support themselves on alms by stopping "at euery mans doore to
singe salue Regina" (Roper 54/11). In Ch. 9 of
his biography, Thomas Stapleton relates that
More's household customarily recited Pss. 50/51, 24/25, 66/67, 129/130,
and the
Salve Regina
as part of their evening prayers. Cf. The Life
and Illustrious Martyrdom of Sir Thomas
More, tr. Philip E. Hallett, ed.
E.E. Reynolds (New
York: Fordham UP, 1966) 88–89.
christ is our hope
and life. For "hope," 1 Tim. 1.1; for "life," cf. John 14.6.
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M. they saye if a woman beinge aliue beleue in
god and loue him as moch as our lady / she maye helpe with
hir prayars as moch as
our lady. T. tel whi not. Christ when it was
told him that his mother
and his brethern sought him / answered / that
his mother / his sisters and his brethern were al they that
did his fathers wyll. And vn to the woman that saide to
christ / blessed be the wombe that bare the and
pappes that gaue the sucke / christ answered /
Naye blessed are they that heare the worde of god and kepe
it. As paul saith .1. Corin. ix. I haue nought to reioyse
though I preach / for necessite lieth vppon me / and wo is
me / if I preach not. If I doo it vnwillyngly / an office
is committed vn to me / but and if I do it with a good wil / then I haue a rewarde. So now carnall bearynge of christ and
carnall geuynge him sucke make not our lady greate. But our
blessed ladies greatnesse is hir faith and loue wherin she
exceaded other. Wherefore if God gaue his mercy that a
nother woman were in those .ij. poyntes equall with hir /
whi were she not like greate and hir prayers as moch herde.
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they saye . . .
our lady. Cf. CWM 6/1.360/1–3.
his mother . . .
wyll. Cf. Matt. 12.50, Mark 3.35.
blessed . . .
kepe it. Luke 11.27–28. Answer has
"Naye" (185/22), while NT has "Ye[a]" (Wallis 154/29; TNT 110D).
I haue . . .
rewarde. 1 Cor. 9.16–17. The two clauses of v. 17 are given in
reverse order.
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