Jude — The Tyndale New Testament (1534)
The epistle of Jude in Tyndale's revised New Testament of 1534, translated from the Greek. Tyndale's prologue to James and Jude is printed before James and is given on that page. It is printed here from the copy in the British Library as keyed by the Text Creation Partnership, in the spelling of 1534; the margin notes are given as footnotes.
Chapter 1
1 IUdas the servaunt of Iesus Christ / the brother of Iames. To them which are ca[l] ▪ & sanctified in god the father / and preserved in Iesu Christ.
2 Mercy vnto you / and peace & love be multiplied.
3 Beloved / when I gave all diligence to write vnto you of the commen saluacion: it was nedfull for me to wryte vnto you / to exhorte you / that ye shuld continually laboure in the fayth which was once gevē vnto the sayntes
4 For ther are certayne craftely crept in / of which it was writē afore tyme vnto soche iudgemēt. They are vngodly & turne the grace of oure God vnto wantannes / & denye God the only Lorde / and oure Lorde Iesus Christ.
5 My mynde is therfore to put you in remēbraunce / for as moche as ye once knowe this / how that the Lorde (after that he had delivered1 the people out of Egypt) destroyed them which afterwarde beleved not.
6 The angels also which kept not their fyrst estate: but lefte their awne habitacion / he hath reserved in everlastinge chaynes vnder darcknes vnto y[ᵉ]2 iudgemēt of the greate daye:
7 evē as Sodom & Gomor / & the cities aboute them (which in lyke maner defiled them selves with fornicaciō and folowed3 str⟨illegible⟩unge flesshe) are set forth for an ensample / and suffre the vengeaunce of eternall fyre.
8 Lykwyse these dremers defylethe flesshe / despyse rulars and speake evyll of them that are in auctoritie.
9 Yet Michael the archangell when he strove agaynst the devyll / & disputed about the body of Moses / durst not geve raylinge sentēce / but sayde: the Lorde rebuke y[ᵉ].
10 But these speake evyll of those thinges which they knowe not: & what thinges they knowe naturally / as beastes which are without reason / in tho thinges they corrupte them selves.
11 Wo be vnto them / for they have folowed yᵉ waye of Cayn / and are vtterly geven to the erroure of Balam4 for lukers sake / and perysshe in the treason of Core.
12 These are spotttes which of youre kindnes feast to gedder / with out feare / fedynge themselves. Cloudes they are with outen water / caried5 about of wyndes / and trees with out fruteat [E] gadringe tyme / twyse deed and plucked vp by the rotes.
13 They are the ragynge waves of y[ᵉ] see / fominge out their awne shame. They are wandrynge starres to whom is reserved the myst of darcknes for ever.
14 Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied before of suche / saying: Beholde / y[ᵉ] lorde shall6 come with thousande of sayntes /
15 to geve iudgement agaynst all men / & to rebuke all that are vngodly amonge them / of all their vngodly dedes / which they have vngodly cōmitted / and of all their cruell speakynges / which vngodly [F] sinners have spoken agaynst him.
16 These are murmurers / complayners / walk ynge after their awne lustes / whose mouthes speake proude thynges. They have men in greate reverence be cause of a vauntage.
17 But ye beloved / remember the wordes which were spoken before of the Apostles of oure lorde Iesus Christ /
18 how that they tolde you that ther shulde be begylers in the last tyme / which7 shuld walke after ther awne vngodly lustes.
19 These are makers of sectes fleshlie / havynge no sprete.
20 But ye derlye beloved / edyfie yovre selves in youre most holy fayth / prayinge in the holy goost /
21 and kepe youre selves in the love of God / lokinge for y[ᵉ] mercy of oure lorde Iesus Christ / vnto eternall lyfe.
22 And have compassion on some / separatynge them:
23 & other save with feare / pullinge them out of the fyre / and [A] hate the fylthy vesture of the flesshe.
24 Unto him that is able to kepe you / that ye faule not / & to present you fautlesse before the presence of his glory with ioye /
25 y[ᵗ] is to saye / to God oure saveour which only is wyse / be glory / maiestie / dominion / and power / now & for ever. Amen.
¶ Her after foloweth the Apocalyps.
Notes to Chapter 1
Colophon
Transcribed from The newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale (Antwerp: Marten Emperowr, November 1534; STC 2826), British Library copy, as keyed by the Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP Phase I, text A68940): keyed by Apex CoVantage from the ProQuest page images in 2005, then sampled and proofread by Judith Siefring. The TCP transcription was released into the public domain under CC0 1.0. The printed text is in the public domain.
Spelling, capitals, punctuation (including the virgule /), abbreviation marks (the macron, as in thē, and ꝭ) and the signs ¶ ✚ ⊢ ❧ are kept as printed. The only changes are these: long s (ſ) is set as s; superscript letters are set as ᵉ ᵗ ᵒ (yᵉ = the, yᵗ = that); ▪ marks a stop the transcribers could not identify; a word divided at the end of a line, with or without a printed hyphen, is joined into one word; a letter supplied from another text, as explained below, is set in square brackets; page breaks and catchwords are removed. Woodcuts and decorated initials are not reproduced, but woodcut captions are given. The margin notes are given as numbered footnotes. Printed headings are kept, including their misprints, as italic lines under the library's chapter headings. The letters [A] to [G] are the section letters printed in the margin, by which the 1534 margin references (for example "Esaie vij. c.") and the table of lessons find a passage.
The 1534 print has no verse numbers. They are supplied here from the eBible.org Tyndale New Testament (1534), a public-domain, verse-numbered electronic text of the same edition. A word-by-word alignment showed that about 97 per cent of the two texts' words are identical across the New Testament, and the remainder differ in spelling and abbreviation, with a few slips of keying in one text or the other. The paragraphs of the print give way to one paragraph per verse.
Words that the transcribers could not read are marked ⟨illegible⟩ (5 places on this page, 4 of them in the margin notes).
In the verse text of this book, 7 places that the transcribers could not read in the printed book have been supplied from the eBible.org Tyndale New Testament (1534), a later electronic transcription of Tyndale's New Testament whose transcriber is not named. Each supplied letter is set in square brackets, as in y[ᵉ] or fal[c]e, so that it can be told from a letter the transcribers read in the print. A place was supplied only where the verse alignment was exact on both sides, the eBible reading agreed letter for letter with every legible letter, and no macron could have stood in the gap. Where the small superscript letter after y was supplied, the eBible text is the only evidence for that letter.
This is an archival transcription of Tyndale's printed English, not a Good Works Translation: nothing here has been translated or modernised by the library.
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