TSK
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in Bishops.
This Esdras also went vp from Babylon, and was a perfect scribe in the law of Moyses which the Lorde God of Israel did geue: And the king gaue him al that he required, according to the hand of the Lorde his God which was vpon him.
The captayne of fiftie & the honorable, the senatour, the cunnyng artificer, and the eloquent oratour.
He sayde vnto them: what thynges? And they sayde vnto him: Of Iesus of Nazareth, whiche was a prophete, mightie in deede and worde before God and all the people:
And Moyses was learned in all maner of wisedome of the Egyptians, and was myghtie in deedes and in wordes.
And there the vnder captayne founde a shippe of Alexandria redy, that sayled into Italie, and he put vs therin.
And I brethren, when I came to you, came not in gloriousnesse of wordes, or of wisedome, shewing vnto you the testimonie of God.
And these thynges brethren, I haue figuratiuely applied vnto my selfe, and to Apollos, for your sakes, that ye might learne by vs, that no man conceaue in mynde aboue that whiche is written, that one swell not agaynst another for any mans cause.
For the letters sayth he, are sore and strong: but his bodyly presence is weake, and his speache rude.
Bryng Zenas the lawyer, & Apollos, on their iourney diligently, that nothing be lackyng vnto them.