A17683:339
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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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.
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 C•cummet: […] 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 ⟨p. 66⟩were alway deadly enemies to the faith, they had gone about to corrupt the whole Law and the Prophets: when as therefore there was a secrete suspicion of the false packing of the Jews, Augustine had rat•er for that cause keep still the common translation. Hierom also declareth that he him self was brought to Rome, because he had turned. An Ivy▪ for A Gourd. But too sharply & almost enemylike, answered be Augustine. And very ••olorike he inveighed, he against one Cornelius, I know not whom, and another Asinius polio, who had at Rome accursed him of sacrilege as it were, because he had changed this place, but here I do not excuse them, if they way worldly refused, the thing which was probable. But as touching the matter it self. I had rather in this place to leave it either a Gourd, or a Cucumber, then to move any trouble about a thing of nothing. Hierom saith, that it is not an Ivy, he saith it is a kind of small Tree: and sayeth that it groweth every where in Syria. He saith that this small Tree is held up by his stalk, and this cannot agree to an Ivy. For the Ivy, unless it cleave to a wall or a tree, it creepeth only on the ground: it could not therefore be an Ivy.