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The commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the Acts of the Apostles, faithfully translated…The commentaries of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the Actes of the Apostles, faithfully translated…
The commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the Acts of the Apostles, faithfully translated out of Latin into English for the great profit of our country-men, by Christopher Fetherstone student in divinityThe commentaries of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the Actes of the Apostles, faithfully translated out of Latine into English for the great profite of our countrie-men, by Christopher Fetherstone student in diuinitie
Londini: printed by Thomas Dawson, 1585
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. II.
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all with one accord gathered together: 2 And there was made from heaven suddenly a sound, as it were when a violent wind breaketh in, and it filled all the house where they sate: 3 And they saw cloven tongues as it were of fire, and it sate upon every one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and they began to speak with strange tongues, even as the spirit gave them to speak.
1 ANd when the day of Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all with one accord gathered togither: 2 And there was made from heauen suddainlie a sounde, as it were when a violent wind breaketh in, and it filled all the house where they sate: 3 And they saw clouen tongues as it were of fire, and it sate vppon euerie one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and they began to speake with strange tongues, euen as the spirite gaue them to speake.
1 And when. To be fulfilled is taken in this place for to Come. For Luke beareth record again of their perseverance, when he saith that they stood all in one place until the time which was set them. Hereunto serveth the adverb with one accord. Furthermore we have before declared why the Lord did defer the sending of his spirit a whole month and one half. But the question is why he sent him upon that day chiefly. I will not refute that high and subtle interpretation of Augustine, that like as the law was given to the old people fifty days after Easter, being written in tables of Stone, by the hand of God: so the Spirit, whose office it is to write the same in our hearts, did fulfil that which was figured in the giving of the law, as many days after the resurrection of Christ, who is the true passover. Notwithstanding whereas he urgeth this his subtle interpretation as necessary, in his book of Questions upon Exodus, and in his second Epistle unto Januarius, I would wish him to be more sober and modest therein. Notwithstanding let him keep his own interpretation to himself. In the mean season, I will embrace that which is more sound: upon the feast day, wherein a great multitude was wont to resort to Jerusalem, was this miracle wrought, that it might be more famous. And truly by means hereof was it spread abroad, even unto the uttermost parts and borders of the earth.