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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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1As the Lord liveth, if ye had saved their lives. Gideon mought have saved these kings lives, if they had not slain his brethren: but because they had slain them it was not lawful. For in the book of Numbers there is a law, wherein it is ordained, that the next of kin must not suffer the blood of him that is dead unpunished, not that a private man should kill a murderer, but he must be brought unto the Judge that there the cause being known he might be punished. And therefore Gideon being a Magistrate ought by that ⟨p. 146⟩law to punish them. Otherwise he might have let them goo, for as much as they were not Canaanites, whom GOD had commanded, that they should not spare. Wherefore Gideon sweareth nothing contrary to the word of God. And he said unto Jether. He commandeth his first borne son, being then a young man, to slay them, but he feared, neither durst he draw his sword: The two kings disdain, & would not be killed with the hand of a child, even as Abimelech would be slain of his Armour bearer, least he should seem to be killed of a woman. Farther, they easily saw, that they should be long in pain or they were dead, when as the child by reason of want of strength could not rid them out of their life quickly.2 And Gideon peradventure did for this cause command his son to do this thing, to inflame his heart, even from his tender years against the enemies of the people of GOD, as it is written of Hannibal, who from a child vowed himself against the Romans: Or else he did it to learn him from his tender age to obey the law of God, wherein was commanded that the blood of the next of kin being shed, should be revenged.
1As the Lorde liueth, if ye had saued their lyues. Gideon mought haue saued these kynges lyues, if they had not slayne hys brethren: but bycause they had slayne them it was not lawfull. For in the booke of Numbers there is a lawe, wherein it is ordayned, that the nexte of kynne muste not suffer the bloude of hym that is dead vnpunished, not that a priuate man shoulde kyll a murtherer, but he must be brought vnto the Iudge that there the cause beyng knowē he myght be punished. And therefore Gideon beyng a Magistrate ought by that ⟨p. 146⟩