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Basilius M•gnus in his Commentary upon Isa. 3.2. where the Lord threateneth to take away from Israel the Ancient, or the Elder, showeth from Numb. 11.16. how warily such Elders were to be chosen, and that their gifts, not their age, made them Elders, he proveth from Dan. 13.50. (which is the history of Susanna) where the Jewish Elders at Babylon say to young Daniel, Come sit down among us, and show it us, seeing God hath given thee the honour of an Elder. Then he addeth, Ad hunc, &c. After this m•nner sometimes it happeneth, that youths are found in honour to be preferred to these Elders who slothfully and ⟨p. 66⟩negligently lead their life. These Elders then among the Jews were falsely so c•lled: for God took away as the man of war and the Prophet, so the Elder from the people of the Jews. Therefore let the Church pray, that the Elder (worthy to be so called, be not taken away from her self. The whole tenor of his discourse importeth, that the Christian Churches had such Elders as we read to have been in the Jewish Church, whereof Daniel was one. And of them he seemed to mean a little before, Habet &c. The Church also hath Judges, who can agree brother and brother.

Basilius M•gnus in his Commentary upon Isa. 3.2. where the Lord threatneth to take away from Israel the Ancient, or the Elder, sheweth from Numb. 11.16. how warily such Elders were to be chosen, and that their gifts, not their age, made them Elders, he proveth from Dan. 13.50. (which is the history of Susanna) where the Jewish Elders at Babylon say to young Daniel, Come sit downe among us, and shew it us, seeing God hath given thee the honour of an Elder. Then he addeth, Ad hunc, &c. After this m•nner sometimes it happeneth, that youths are found in honour to be preferred to these Elders who slothfully and ⟨p. 66⟩