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ANNOTATIONS. VIII.

34. Amen, amen.) What is it (saith S. Augustine upon this place) when our Lord said, Amen, amen? He doth much commend and urge the thing that he so uttereth, doubling it. It is a certaine othe of his, if a man may so say: for Amen in Hebrew signifieth verum, a truth. Yet is it not translated, whereas it might have been said, verum, verum dico vobis, but neither the * Greeke interpreter durst doe it, nor the Latin, the Hebrew word hath remained stil, that so it might be the more esteemed. Tract. 41 in Joan. By which wordes and the like * recorded in other places of this new Testament, the Reader may see great reason, why we also say, Amen, amen, and durst not translate it and such like wordes into our English tongue.

IX.

ND passing by, saw a man blind from his nativitie; and his Disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be borne blind? answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the workes of God may be manifested in him. I must worke the workes of him that sent me, whiles it is day. The night commeth, when no man can worke. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had said these things, he spit on the ground, and ″ made clay of the spittle, and spred the clay upon his eyes, and said to him: Goe, wash in the poole of Siloe, which is interpreted, Sent. He went therfore, and washed; and he came seeing.

Therfore the neighbours, and they which had seen him before, that he was a begger, said: Is not this he that sate, and begged? Others said: That this is he. But others: No, not so, but he is like him. But he said: That I am he. They said therfore to him: How were thine eyes opened? He answered: That man that is called, made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said to me, Goe to the poole of Siloe, and wash. And I went, and washed, and saw. And they said to him: Where is he? He saith: I know not. They bring him that had been Rh