Thus were the wicked deceived: they would have deprived the English people of the oracles of God, and _two_ editions were now ready to enter England. "Give diligence," said Tyndale to his fellow-countrymen, as he sent from Worms the Testament he had just translated, "unto the words of eternal life, by the which, if we repent and believe them, we are born anew, created afresh, and enjoy the fruits of the blood of Christ."[553] In the beginning of 1526, these books crossed the sea by way of Antwerp or Rotterdam. Tyndale was happy; but he knew that the unction of the Holy Ghost alone could enable the people of England to understand these sacred pages; and accordingly he followed them night and day with his prayers. "The scribes and Pharisees," said he, "had thrust up the sword of the word of God in a scabbard or sheath of glosses, and therein had knit it fast, so that it could neither stick nor cut.[554] Now, O God, draw this sharp sword from the scabbard. Strike, wound, cut asunder, the soul and the flesh, so that man being divided in two, and set at variance with himself, may be in peace with thee to all eternity!" [553] Epistle, in init. [554] Tyndale's Works, ii, p. 378; or Expositions (Matthew), p. 131, (Park. Soc.) CHAPTER XII. Worms and Cambridge--St. Paul resuscitated--Latimer's Preaching--Never Man spake like this Man--Joy and Vexation at Cambridge--Sermon by Prior Buckingham--Irony--Latimer's Reply to Buckingham--The Students threatened--Latimer preaches before the Bishop--He is forbidden to preach--The most zealous of Bishops--Barnes the Restorer of Letters--Bilney undertakes to convert him--Barnes offers his Pulpit to Latimer--Fryth's Thirst for God--Christmas Eve, 1525--Storm against Barnes--Ferment in the Colleges--Germany at Cambridge--Meetings at Oxford--General Expectation. [Sidenote: ST. PAUL REVIVED.]