Talk:mark of the beast

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Carect of the Beeste[edit]

Origin with which version of Wycliffe's Bible?

  • Word origin [1350–1400; ME] Collins
  • "Origin Late Middle English; earliest use found in The Wycliffite Bible (early version)." Lexico
  • "16 And he schal make alle, smale and grete, and riche and pore, and fre men and bonde men, to haue a carecter in her riythoond, ethir in her forheedis; that no man may bie,
    17 ethir sille, but thei han the caracter, ether the name of the beeste, ethir the noumbre of his name." Wikisource
  • "20 And the beeste was cauyt, and with hir the false prophete, that made signes bifor hir; in whiche he disseyuede hem that token the carect of the beeste, and that worschipiden the ymage of it. These tweyne weren sent quyke in to the pool of fier, brennynge with brymstoon." Chapter 19 Wikisource
  • --Geographyinitiative (talk) 03:10, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]