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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. 13 ¶The sons of thine Elect Sister salute thee.
Vers. 13 ¶The sonnes of thine Elect Sister salute thee.
The sons of thine Elect, &c. 1He addeth after the manner of writers, a salutation in the end. The Nephews, saith he, the sons of thine Elect Sister, bid God save thee. A doubtful kind of speech truly: but it troubleth us nothing at all. Some suspect that those sons of her Sister were with the writers of this Epistle.2 Some other will build upon it, that this Epistle was not written to a Woman, but to the Church,3 whose Sisters here (they say) he maketh other Churches, which begot Sons unto Christ, of which thing read the Argument set before this Epistle.4
THe sonnes of thine Elect, &c. 1He addeth after the manner of writers, a salutation in the ende. The Nephewes, sayth he, the sonnes of thine Electe Sister, bydde God saue thée. A doubtfull kinde of speache trulie: but it troubleth vs nothing at all. Some suspect that those sonnes of her Sister were with the writers of this Epistle.2 Some other wyll builde vpon it, that this Epistle was not written to a Woman, but to the Church,