[344]: 1549. Traduction de Tyndal (Bibliothèque impériale).
[345]: Le mot est de Stendhal; c'est son impression d'ensemble.
[346]: Voyez la traduction de Lemaistre de Sacy, si peu biblique.
[347]: Voy. Ewald, Geschichte des Volks Israel. Apostrophe d'Ewald au troisième rédacteur du Pentateuque: Erhabener Geist..., etc.
[348]: Comparez le psaume 104, dans l'admirable traduction de Luther et dans la traduction anglaise.
[349]: Le premier rudiment considérable est de 1545. Froude, V, 145 et 146. Le Prayer-Book subit plusieurs changements en 1552, d'autres sous Élisabeth, et quelques-uns enfin à la Restauration.
[350]: Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against Thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. And there is no health in us. But Thou, O Lord, have mercy on us, miserable offenders; spare Thou them, O God, which confess their faults. Restore Thou them that are penitent, according to Thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu, our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for His sake, that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life.
[351]: Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that Thou hast made, and doth forgive the sins of all them who are penitent; create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of Thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness.
[352]: Wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy state of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour and keep her, in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?
I take thee to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.