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A commentary on the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. By M. John Calvin. Translated…A commentarie on the vvhole Epistle to the Hebrevves. By M. Iohn Caluin. Translated…
A commentary on the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. By M. John Calvin. Translated out of FrenchA commentarie on the vvhole Epistle to the Hebrevves. By M. Iohn Caluin. Translated out of French
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Arthur Johnson, 1605London: printed by Felix Kingston for Arthur Iohnson, 1605
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40 God providing a better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
40 God prouiding a better thing for vs, that they without vs should not be made perfect.
Whereas he saith they were tempted, Vers. 36 it seemeth superfluous: and I make no doubt, but because there is great affinity in the Greek tongue between these two words, cut asunder, and Tempted, that some took occasion ⟨p. 283⟩thereby, being not well exercised in the language, to add the second in the margin: and so by succession of time, it hath since crept into the text: as also Erasmus deemeth. Vers. 37 By the skins of sheep, and goats, I think he rather meaneth the base and course garments of the faithful, wherewith they were clad, when they fled into the deserts, than the tents which were made of skins. Now although some say that Jeremiah was stoned, Isaiah sawed asunder, and that the holy history telleth how Elijah, and Elisha, and other Prophets wandered into mountains and caves: yet notwithstanding I doubt not, but he toucheth those cruel and horrible persecutions, which Antiochus inflicted upon the people of God, and those which befell them soon after.
VVHereas he saith they were tempted, Vers. 36 it seemeth superfluous: and I make no doubt, but because there is great affinitie in the Greeke tongue betweene these two words, cut asunder, and Tempted, that some tooke occasion ⟨p. 283⟩thereby, being not well exercised in ye language, to adde the second in the margine: and so by succession of time, it hath since crept into ye text: as also Erasmus deemeth. Vers. 37 By the skins of sheepe, and goates, I thinke he rather meaneth the base and course garments of the faithfull, wherewith they were clad, when they fled into the deserts, than the tents which were made of skinnes. Now although some say that Ieremiah was stoned, Isaiah sawed asunder, and that the holy historie telleth how Elias, and Elizeus, and other Prophets wandred into mountaines and caues: yet notwithstanding I doubt not, but he toucheth those cruell and horrible persecutions, which Antiochus inflicted vpon the people of God, and those which befell them soone after.