Sin theoni en christoni the answer to the preface of the Rhemish Testament. By…Syn theōi en christōi the ansvvere to the preface of the Rhemish Testament. By…

Beside that it is known that ⟨p. 132⟩the Apostles in alleging testimonies, do not number the words but give the weight of the sentence, to which numbering of words, when not so much as translators are always (as it is said) bound to; much less were th'Apostles tied unto it, which were no translators but expounders of the Scriptures. And all reasonable men will judge it good payment if for four single pence, he receive a whole groat: or if th'opportunity so serve, eight single half-pence. They proceed with the 40 Psalm, where in stead of the Hebrew, Thou hast pierced my ear, th'Apostle hath, Thou hast prepared me a body. But they ought to have understood, that there is first a Trope of the part for the whole, which th'Apostle doth elegantly express, when for the ear he setteth down the body. Secondly, they should know that there is a manifest Metaphor in the word piercing used of the Prophet, which being drawn from the law, providing that the servant which would willingly give himself over to a perpetual and whole service of his ⟨p. 133⟩master, should so be served: signifieth an enabling of the Prophet, for a willing obedience to be given unto the Lord. And therefore this Metaphor is elegantly expounded by th'Apostle when he saith, Thou hast prepared and fitted me a body, without the which our saviour Christ could not have been the servant of God, to any such purpose as he was ordained. So that if as David by Christ, so Christ for David, must bring not a legal sacrifice, but his ears bored through, that is, a body obedient unto the death: men may easily see, that th'Apostle did expound and make plain that, which was somewhat obscure in the Prophet, whose sense (and not whose words) he alleged. Further they allege, 2. Chron. 28. 19. Achas King of Israel, for King of Judah. As if they ought to be ignorant, that the place where Achas was buried, was first the place where the kings of Israel, that is, of the twelve tribes were buried, or ever it was the place of the kings of Judah only. And if they had marked it, they should easily have ⟨p. 134⟩known both the Prophet Jeremiah and¹ th'Apostle to contain Judah under Israel, and contrariwise Israel under Judah. And the vulgar according unto the Hebrew in the last verse, readeth, in the sepulchres of the Kings of Israel. And as ignorance of the story of the Scripture, deceived you here: