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The lectures or daily sermons, of that reverend divine, D. John Calvin, pastor of…The lectures or daily sermons, of that reuerend diuine, D. Iohn Caluine, pastor of…
The lectures or daily sermons, of that reverend divine, D. John Calvin, pastor of the Church of God in Geneva, upon the prophet Jonah, by N.B. student in Divinity. Whereunto is annexed an excellent exposition of the two last epistles of S. John, done in Latin by that worthy doctor, August. Marlorate, and englished by the same N.B.The lectures or daily sermons, of that reuerend diuine, D. Iohn Caluine, pastor of the Church of God in Geneua, vpon the prophet Ionas, by N.B. student in Diuinitie. Whereunto is annexed an excellent exposition of the two last epistles of S. Iohn, done in Latin by that worthy doctor, August. Marlorate, and englished by the same N.B.
London: printed by J. Charlewood for Edward White, 1578
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vers. 6 The text. ¶And the Lord God prepared a* Gourd, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head and deliver him from his grief, and Jonah was exceeding glad of the Gourd. vers. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the* Ivy that it withered. vers. 8 And it came to pass when the Sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement (or fervent) wind, and the Sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in his heart that he might dye: and said, it is better for me to dye, then to live, or my death is better then my life.
vers. 6 The text. ¶And the Lord God prepared a* Gourd, and made it come vp ouer Ionas, that it might be a shadow ouer his heade and deliuer him from his griefe, and Ionas was exceeding glad of the Gourde. vers. 7 But God prepared a worme when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the* Iuie that it wythered. vers. 8 And it came to passe when the Sune did aryse, that God prepared a vehement (or seruent) winde, and the Sun beat vpon the head of Ionas, that he faynted, and wyshed in his harte that he might dye: and sayd, it is better for me to dye, then to lyue, or my death is better then my lyfe.
- *Or an * Juye.Or an * Iuye.
- *Or Gourd
Calvin. Before I come to touch the matters them selves, I will in a few words speak that which is to be said of the Hebrew word, Kikijon. For there was in time past not a •ytle controversy about this word Some read it A Gourd, where had rather to read it, A Ccummet: […] as guessings and conjectures are free in matters obscure and unknown. But yet the first Translation was received. Augustine saith, that there arose a tumult in a certain Church, when the Bishop read that hewe interpretation of Hierom, where he turned the word, An Ivy. But certain it is that those men were rash and foolish, which for so light a matter were so offended, for they ought more diligently to have searched which interpretation had been the better, and the truer. Augustine also behaved him self not very wisely in this thing, for such a superstition took hold upon him, that he would not have the common translation of the old Testament to be changed. He took it well, that Hierom had translated the new Testament out of the Greek, but he would not have that old Testament to be meddled withal: because there was a suspicion of the Jews, that, as they