Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . uces textualglosses. Wyclifs labours were carried on at Oxford in part,as well as at Lutterworth, and it was in the midst ofthem, and perhaps as the result of excessive toil, thathe fell ill and was thought to be dying. It is a famousand probably a true story that, in the severity of hisillness, a body of mendicant Friars waited on him to setforth his heretical views, and to warn him of his supposeddanger. He admitted them, and listened patiently towhat they had to say; then, Raise me on my pillow,he said to his a
Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . uces textualglosses. Wyclifs labours were carried on at Oxford in part,as well as at Lutterworth, and it was in the midst ofthem, and perhaps as the result of excessive toil, thathe fell ill and was thought to be dying. It is a famousand probably a true story that, in the severity of hisillness, a body of mendicant Friars waited on him to setforth his heretical views, and to warn him of his supposeddanger. He admitted them, and listened patiently towhat they had to say; then, Raise me on my pillow,he said to his attendant, and, looking at them as they JOHN WYCLIF 275 stood before him, I shall not die,ihe exclaimed, butlive, still further to declare the evil deeds of the Friars. There are many references in Wyolifs works to theneed of the translation. For instance, in his Office ofCurates we read: They dread the Popes Law and Statutesmade by Bishops and other officers, more than the noblelaw of the Gospel. Therefore they have many greatand costly books of mans law, and study them much,. LUDGAKSHALL SCENE OF WYOLIfs MINISTRATIONS, 1368-1374. but few curates have the Bible and Expositions of theGospel; they study them but little and do them less. So in his Tract on the Song of the Ordinal of Sahsbury,Wyclif reproves the hght singing then newly introducedin public worship, which, he says, hinders much thepreaching of the gospel. Then he adds :— If all the study and labour that men have now, aboutSalisbury use, with multitudes of new costly portesses,and all other such books, were turned into making of 2 76 OUR OWN ENGLISH BIBLE bibles, and in studying and teaching thereof, how muchshould Gods Law be furthered and known and kept! Andnow it is so much hindered, unstudied, and unkept! Howshould rich men be excused that spend so much in greatchapelries, and costly books of mens ordinance, for fameof the world, and will not spend so much about books ofGods Law, and to study them an
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