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Apocalypsis A brief and learned commentary upon the revelation of Saint John the apostle…Apocalypsis A briefe and learned commentarie vpon the reuelation of Saint Iohn the apostle…
Apocalypsis A brief and learned commentary upon the revelation of Saint John the apostle and evangelist, applied unto the history of the Catholic and Christian Church. Written in Latin by M. Francis Junius Doctor of Divinity, and professor in the University of Heidelberg: And translated into English for the benefit of those that understand not the Latin.Apocalypsis A briefe and learned commentarie vpon the reuelation of Saint Iohn the apostle and euangelist, applyed vnto the history of the Catholicke and Christian Church. Written in Latine by M. Francis Iunius Doctor of Diuinitie, and professor in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge: And translated into English for the benefit of those that vnderstand not the Latine.
London: printed by Richard Field for Robert Dexter, 1592
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8 And their corpses shall lie in the 13streets ⟨p. 39⟩of the great city, which dspiritually is called Sodom & Egypt, 14where also our Lord was crucified.
8 And their corpses shall lie in the 13streets ⟨p. 39⟩of the great citie, which dspiritually is called Sodō & Egypt, 14where also our Lord was crucified.
- 13That is, openly at Rome: where at that time was a most great concourse of people, the year of Jubilee being then first ordained by Boniface unto the same end, in the year of Christ one thousand three hundred, example whereof is read Chapter 1. Extra. de poenucntijs & remissionibus. So by on act he committed double injury against Christ, both abolishing his truth by the restoring of the type of the Jubilee, and triumphing over his members by most wicked superstition. O religious heart! Now, that we should understand these things of Rome, S. John himself is the author, both after in the seventeenth Chapter almost throughout, and also in the circumscription now next following, when he saith, it is that great City (as Chapter 17. 18. he calleth it) and is spiritually termed Sodom and Egypt: and that spiritually (for that must here again be repeated from before) Christ was there crucified. For the two first appellations signify spiritual wickednesses: the latter signifieth the show and pretence of good, that is, of Christian and sound religion. Sodom signifieth most licentious impiety and injustice; Egypt most cruel persecution of the people of God; and Jerusalem signifieth, the most confident glorying of that City, as it were in true religion, being yet full of falsehood and ungodliness. Now who is ignorant that these things do rather and more agree unto Rome, then unto any other City? The commendations of the City of Rome for many years past, are publicly notorious, which are not for me to gather together. This only I will say, that he long since did very well see what Rome is, who taking his leave thereof used these verses: Roma vale, vidi, satis est vidisse: revertar Quumleno, meretrix, scurra cinaedus aero. Now farewell Rome, I have thee seen: it was enough to see: I will return when as I mean, baud, harlot, knave to be.