ABSTRACT
Therefore, when looking at the Greenharn sayings found in Rylands English Manuscript 524 and the printecl editions, one must first recognize that the meaning discovered in them by sixteenth-century readers did not derive simply from Greenharn as an individual, but from Greenharn as a sage who articulated values cherished by his religious community. This dimension of Elizabethan intellectuallife poses special problems of interpretation that scholats must understand before the sayings can gain their proper place in the study of early modern English religion. Facing this challenge resultsin a more critical use of the sayings, a better appreciation of the basis for Greenham's stature among the godly, and a clearer understanding of how his legacy was used in the late Elizabethan and Stuart period.
