Expositions and Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures: Together with the Practice of Prelates by William Tyndale, Henry Walter

Expositions and Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures: Together with the Practice of Prelates

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kingdom of heaven." Now young children bear no rule one
over another, but all is fellowship among them. And he said
moreover: "Whosoever humbleth himself after the ensample
of this child, he is greatest in the kingdom of heaven;" that
is, to be (as concerning ambition and worldly desire) so child-
ish that thou couldst not heave thyself above thy brother, is
the very bearing of rule, and to be great in Christ's kingdom.
And, to describe the very fashion of the greatness of his king-
dom, he said, "He that receiveth one such child in my name,
receiveth me." What is that, to receive a child in Christ's
name? Verily, to submit, to meek, and to humble thyself,
and to cast thyself under all men; and to consider all men's
infirmities and weaknesses; and to help to heal their diseases
with the word of truth, and to live purely, that they see no
contrary ensample in thee to whatsoever thou teachest them
in Christ; that thou put no stumbling-block before them, to
make them fall while they be yet young and weak in the
faith: but that thou abstain, as Paul teacheth, ( 1 Thess. v.)
ab omni specie mala ¹, from all that might seem evil, or
whereof a man might surmise amiss; and that thou so love
them, that whatsoever gift of God in thee is, thou think the
same theirs, and their food, and for their sakes given unto
thee, as the truth is; and that all their infirmities be thine,
and that thou feel them, and that thine heart mourn for them;
and that with all thy power thou help to amend them, and
cease not to cry to God for them, neither day nor night;
and that thou let nothing be found in thee, that any man may
rebuke, but whatsoever thou teachest them, that be thou;
and that thou be not a wolf in a lamb's skin, as our holy
father the pope is, which cometh unto us in a name of hy-
pocrisy, and in the title of cursed Cham, or Ham ², calling
himself Servus servorum, the servant of all servants, and is
yet found Tyrannus tyrannorum, of all tyrants the most

1 Thess. v.

The pope is a
wolf in a
lamb's skin.

To receive
a child in
Christ's
name, what
it is.

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[From every evil appearance.]

[The first letter in the name of this son of Noah having no exact
representative in our alphabet, the Latin vulgate puts ch for it, writing
the name Cham: but ch, as pronounced in English, produces a sound
more unlike that which belongs to heth, than is the sound of our h.
Hence Tyndale thought it better to write the name Ham; and that
improvement in the spelling of this and various other names, which his
knowledge of Hebrew enabled him to introduce into the English Old
Testament, has been preserved in our authorised version.]

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Publication Information: Book Title: Expositions and Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures: Together with the Practice of Prelates. Contributors: William Tyndale - author, Henry Walter - editor. Publisher: University Press of America. Place of Publication: Cambridge. Publication Year: 1849. Page Number: 248.

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