A17643:754
Commentary upon the Epistle to the Romans
A commentary upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans, written in Latin by M. John Calvin, and newly translated into English by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessary table for the better and more ready finding out of certain principal matters contained in this workA commentarie vpon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes, written in Latine by M. Iohn Caluin, and newely translated into Englishe by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessarie table for the better and more readie finding out of certayne principall matters conteyned in this worke
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for John Harison and George Bishop, 1583London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Iohn Harison and George Bishop, 1583
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Where also not only there, but in Isaiah and Ezekiel, the interpreter hath erred,1 where it is said, Ah, ah, Lord God, wilt thou make a consummation of the remnants of Israel? when the Prophets would say, wilt thou destroy even the remnants unto utter destruction? and that cometh to pass through the ambiguity or doubtfulness of the Hebrew word.
Where also not onely there, but in Esai and Ezechiel, the interpreter hath erred,1 where it is sayde, Ah, ah, Lorde God, wilt thou make a consummation of the remnantes of Israell? when the Prophetes woulde say, wilt thou destroy euen the remnauntes vnto vtter destruction? and that commeth to passe thrugh the ambiguitie or doubtfulnes of the Hebrewe worde.
For seeing the word Chalah may signify as well to end and finish, as to consume, this difference hath not been sufficiently observed in his place. Neither hath Isaiah word for word so spoken, but he hath put two substantive nouns, namely, consumption, and definition, or deciding and ending: so that the desire or seeking after Hebraism in the Greek interpreter is marvellous unreasonable. For to what purpose is it, to enwrap a sentence, by it self clear, in an obscure figurative speech? Add also that Isaiah speaketh here excessively, whiles by consumption he meaneth extenuation or diminishing, such as is wont to be in some famous destruction.