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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.
To see the just. Seeing all the Greek books in a manner agree together in the Masculine gender: I wonder why Erasmus would rather translate it in the Neuter, Which is Just: which sense the readers see to be cold and far fet.1 Therefore I do not doubt but that Just is taken in this place for Christ: and the text runneth very finely thus: because ⟨p. 515⟩it followeth immediately after, & Hear a voice from his mouth. And it is certain that all the godly and holy men did most of all desire that they might see Christ. Thence flowed that confession of Simeon, Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace: because mine eyes have seen thy salvation. Therefore this seeing, which godly kings and prophets did most earnestly desire, as Christ himself doeth witness,2 is not without cause extolled as a singular benefit of God. But because the sight of the eyes should profit little or nothing, which we know was to many deadly, he adjoineth the hearing of the voice. Ananias setteth down the cause why God did vouchsafe Paul of so great honour, to wit, that he might be to his son a public witness: and he doth so prepare him, that he may learn not only for himself alone: but that he may have so much the more care to profit, because he shall be the teacher of all the whole Church.
To see the iust. Seeing all the Greeke bookes in a manner agree togither in the Masculine gender: I wonder why Erasmus woulde rather translate it in the Neuter, Which is Iust: which sense the readers see to be colde and farre fet.1 Therefore I doe not doubt but that Iust is taken in this place for Christ: and the text runneth very finely thus: because ⟨p. 515⟩it followeth immediatly after, & Heare a voice from his mouth. And it is certaine that all the godly and holy men did most of all desire that they might see Christ. Thence flowed that confession of Simeon, Lord now lettest thou thy seruāt depart in peace: bicause mine eies haue seene thy saluation. Therfore this seing, which godly kings and prophets did most earnestly desire, as Christ himselfe doeth witnesse,