Daniel · Chapter 12

[ edit] Forſoþe in þat tyme Myȝhel ſhal rijſe, þe grete prince, þat ſtondiþ for ſonys of þi peple. And tyme ſhal cum, what maner was not, fro þat ſiþen folkis bygunen for to be, vn to þat tyme. And in þat tyme þi peple ſhal be ſaued, eche þat ſhuln be founden wrijten in þe boke of lijf. And manye of þeſe þat ſlepten in duſt of erþe, ſhuln wake out, oþer in to euerlaſtinge lyf, and oþere in to ſhenſhip, þat þei ſe euermore. Forſoþe þei þat ſhuln be tauȝt men, or wijſe, ſhuln ſhyne as ſhynyng of þe firmament, and þei þat lernen, or enfourmen, manye to riȝtwijſneſſe, as ſterris in to euerlaſtyngneſſis.

Forſoþe þou, Danyel, cloſe þe wordis, and ſeale þe boke, vn to þe tyme ordeynyd; ful manye ſhuln paſſe, and ſcience manyfold ſhal be. And Y, Danyel, ſawȝ, and loo! as two oþer ſtoden; oon ſtode on þis ſyde, vpon þe ryuere of floode, and an oþer on þat ſyde, on þe toþer part of þe floode. And I ſayde to þe man, þat was cloþid wiþ lynnen, whiche ſtode vpon þe watris of þe floode, Hou longe þe eende of þeſe merueylis? And Y herde þe man, þat was cloþid in lynnen, whiche ſtode vpon watris of þe floode, whann he hadde reyſide vp his riȝt and left half in to heuen, and ſwore by þe lyuynge in to wiþ outen eende, For in to tyme, and tymys, and þe half of tyme.

And whan ſcateryng abrood of þe lond of holy peple ſhal be fulfillid, alle þeſe þingus ſhuln be eendid. And Y herde, and vndirſtode not; and ſaide, My lord, what ſhal be after þeſe þingus? And he ſaiþ, Go þou, Danyel, for þe wordis ben cloſid and ſealid, vn to tyme ordeynyd. Þei ſhuln be choſen, and be maad whijt, and as fijr many ſhuln be proued, and vnpytous men ſhuln do vnpytouſly, neþer alle vnpitouſe men ſhuln vndirſtonde; forſoþe tauȝt men ſhuln vndirſtonde. And fro tyme in whiche contynuel ſacrifice ſhal be don awey, and abomynacioun in to deſolacioun ſhal be ſett, days a þouſand two hundrid and nynty.

Bleſſid is he, þat abydiþ, and fully cummeþ, vn to days a þouſand þre hundrid and þritty and fyue. Forſoþe go þou to determynd; and þou ſhalt reſte aȝein, and ſhalt ſtonde in þi ſort, or part, in þe eende of days. Hidre to we reeden Danyel in Ebru; oþer þingis þat ſuen, til in to þe eende of þe boke, ben tranſlatid of þe making of Theodoſyon.