Textus Receptus Bibles
Wessex Gospels c.1175
Anglo-Saxon
| 6:1 | Gegymeð þæt ge ne don eowre riht-wisnysse before mannum. þæt ge syen geherede fram heom. Elles næbbe ge mede mid eowre fædere þe on heofene ys. |
| 6:2 | Eornestlice þanne þu þine ælmessen sylle. ne blawe man Note: MS. man, wrongly alt. to nan. beman beforan þe. swa liceteras doð on gesomnungen & on wicen þæt hyo sye ge-arwurðode fram mannen. Soð ich segge eow. hyo on-fengen heora mede. |
| 6:3 | Soðlice þonne þu þine ælmesse do. nete þin wynstre hwæt do þin swiðre. |
| 6:4 | þæt þin ælmesse syo on diglen. & þin fæder hyt ägëlt þe. se þe sihð on dyglen. |
| 6:5 | And þanne ge eow gebyddon ne by ge swilce liceteras. þa lufiað þæt hy gebiddan hyo standende on samnunge. & strate hyrnan. þæt men hyo geseon. Soð ich segge eow. hyo onfengen heore mede. |
| 6:6 | Þu soðlice þonne þu þe bidde. gang in-to þinen hel-clyfen. & þinre dure belocenre. bide þinne fader on diglen. & þin fæder þe sihð on dyglen hyt agylt þe. |
| 6:7 | Soðlice þanne ge eow gebiddan. nelle ge spreken fela swa swa hæðene. Hyo wenað þæt hyo syen geherda on heora manifealde spræce. |
| 6:8 | Nelle ge ornestlyce heom ge-efenlæchen. Soðlice eower fæder wat hwæt eow þarf ys. ær þan þe ge hine byddað. |
| 6:9 | Eornestlice gebiddað eow þus. Fader ure þu þe ert on heofene. sye þin name gehalged. |
| 6:10 | to-becume þin rice. Gewurðe þin gewille. on eorðan swa swa on heofenan. |
| 6:11 | ure dayghwamlice hlaf syle us to dayg. |
| 6:12 | & forgyf us ure geltas swa swa we forgyfeð ure geltenden. |
| 6:13 | & ne læd þu us on costnunge. ac ales us of yfele soðlice. |
| 6:14 | Witodlice gyf ge forgyfeð mannan heora synnan. þonne forgyfeð eowre se heofenlice fæder eow eowre geltes. |
| 6:15 | Gyf ge soðlice ne for-gyfeð mannen. ne owre fæder ne for-gyfeð eow owre synna. |
| 6:16 | Soðlice þanne ge fæsten. nellen ge wesan swilce lease licceres. hyo fornymeð hyre ansiene. þæt hyo æteowun mannen fæstende. Soðlice ic segge eow þæt hyo onfengen heore mede. |
| 6:17 | Þu soðlice þanne þu fæste smere þin heafeð. & þweah þine ansiene. |
| 6:18 | þæt þu ne sy gesewen fram mannen fæstende. ac þinen fæder þe is on dyglen. & þin fæder þe sihð on dyglen. hyt agelt þe. |
| 6:19 | Nellen ge goldhordian eow on eorðan goldhordas. þær öm & mohþe hit fornymð. & þær þeofes hit delfeð & for-steleð. |
| 6:20 | Gold-hordiað eow soðlice gold-hordes on heofenan. þær naþer öm ne mohðe hyt ne fornymð. & þær þeofes hit ne delfað ne ne forsteleð. |
| 6:21 | Witoðlice þær þin gold-hord ys. þær is þin heorte. |
| 6:22 | Þines lichamen leoht-fæt is þin eage. gyf þin eage beoð an-feald. eall þin lic-hame beoð breost (sic). |
| 6:23 | Gyf þin eage soðlice beoð manful. eall þin lichame beoð þeosterful. Eornestlice gyf þæt leoht þe on þe ys synd þeostre. hu mycele beoð þa þeostre. |
| 6:24 | Note: Nemo potest duobus dominis seruire. R. Ne mayg nam man twam hlaferden þeowian. oððe he soðliche ænne hateð. & oþerne lufað. oððe he beoð anen gehersum. & oðren ungehersum. Ne magen ge gode þeowian & weorld-weolan. |
| 6:25 | For-þan ich segge eow ðæt ge ne syon emb-hydige eowre sawle hwæt ge eton. ne eower lic-haman mid hwam ge syon emb-scridde. Hu nys syo sawul selre þanne mete. & eower lic-hame betere þanne þæt reaf. |
| 6:26 | Behealded heofenen fugelas. for-þan þe hyo ne saweð. ne hyo ne ripað. ne hyo ne gaderiað on berne. & eowre heofenlice fæder hyo fët. Hu ne synde ge selre þanne hyo. |
| 6:27 | hwilc eower maig soðlice þencen þæt he ge-eacnige enne elne to his anlichnysse. |
| 6:28 | & to hwi synde ge ymbhydige be reafe. Bescewiað ækeres lilian hu hye wexað. ne swincað hyo. ne hyo ne spinneð. |
| 6:29 | Ic segge eow soðlice. þæt for-þan salomon on eallen hys wuldre næs ofer-wrigen swa swa an of þisen. |
| 6:30 | Soðlice gyf akeres weod þæt þe to daig ys. & beoð to morgen on ofen asend. god swa scrit. eale ge ge-hwædes ge-leafen. þam mycele ma he scryt eow. |
| 6:31 | Nelle ge eornestlice beon embhydige. þus cweðende. hwæt ete we. oððe hwæt drinke we. oððe mid hwan beo we ofer-wrogene. |
| 6:32 | Soðlice ealle þas þing þeode secheð. Witodlice eower fader wat þæt ge eallen þisen þinge be-þurfen. |
| 6:33 | Eornestlice secheð ærest godes riche. & hys rihtwysnesse. & ealle þas þing eow beoð þær-to ge-eacnode. |
| 6:34 | Ne beo ge na hugiende emb þa morgendliche neode. Soðlice se morgenliche dayg chareð embe hine selfne. Aighwilc daig hafð genoh on his eagen embhugan. |
Wessex Gospels c.1175
The Wessex Gospels (also known as the West-Saxon Gospels) are a full translation of the four gospels of the Christian Bible into a West Saxon dialect of Old English. Designated Royal MS 1 A XIV, it is historically important.
- The Wessex Gospels are the oldest translations into English without the Latin.
- The gospels are written in the Old English West Anglo-Saxon dialect of Northumbria.
- Royal MS 1 A XIV is written on parchment and is also known as the Codex Evangeliorum Anglice.
- The title written at the top of the page, ‘Text[us] iv evangelior[um] anglice’, is reproduced in the 14th-century catalogue of the Benedictine Christ Church library, but at the Reformation this book was one of many acquired from religious houses by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1532 to 1534, whose name is written at the top of the page.
- Seven extant copies exist today. The earliest version dates from 990AD.
- Royal MS 1 A XIV was copied directly from MS 441 in the Bodleian library at Oxford. We know this as the same passages have been omitted from both. It has a transmission jump of 185 years.
- MS 441 (990AD) is extant and still resides in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, England. It was given to the library by Baron Hatton in 1671. Paleographical evidence suggests a Canterbury origin. The earliest extant evidence of ownership is through Archbishop Matthew Parker (1504-75).
- MS Corp. Ch Coll Camb 140 (1000AD) is in Corpus Christi College Cambridge.
- Royal MS 1 A XIV (1175AD) is in the British Library and was presented to the British Museum by King George II in 1757 from the Old Royal Library.
- Royal MS 1 A XIV once belonged to the Prince of Wales: Henry Frederick, (1594-1612), eldest child of King James the First.
Why is this important?
- Desiderius Erasmus had access to these MSS before starting his translation of the Textus Receptus. In the five years prior to starting his translation work Erasmus was Professor of Divinity at Cambridge at a time when the university's benefactors owned these manuscripts.
- The King James Bible translators had access to these manuscripts. All the six KJV translation companies where housed at Oxford, Cambridge and Westminster and all had access to the Wessex Gospels.
- The codex contains the long ending in Mark chapter 16.
- The codex contains the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11)