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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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Here is set forth an example of a most grievous fall, very much to be lamented. A man holy in miracles, and notable in faith, filthily falleth. Every man therefore is admonished, not to trust unto his former life, and things that he hath well done.
Here is set foorth an example of a most grieuous fal, very much to be lamented. A man holy in miracles, and notable in faith, filthelye falleth. Euerye man therefore is admonished, not to trust vnto his former lyfe, and thinges that hee hath well done.
1They had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites. Kimhi thinketh that the Midianites and Ishmaelites were all one, which he saith is confirmed by the book of Genesis, where it is written that the brethren of Joseph sold him to the Midianites, and straightway it is added that the Ishmaelites sold him in Egypt, wherefore he gathereth that they were all one, namely which had their offspring of Agara. And she (as some say) was Ketura the handmaid of Sarah, & afterward the wife of Abraham. But the Chaldee Paraphrast interpreteth the Ishmaelites, Arabians, and not Midianites. Yea and Josephus in his book De antiquit. by the children of the East he understandeth Arabians. They turn this Hebrew word Scheharonim lunulas, that is little Moons, whereof is mention made before. For in the Arabic tongue Schehara signifieth luna, that is the Moon. The other word Netiphoth is derived of Nataph, which signifieth to drop. For that word signifieth a drop, namely that is odoriferous. That was enclosed in small vessels either of gold or of silver, that with them both the neck might be adorned, and the nose filled with a most sweet smell.2 But the ornament of earrings was most ancient, and used in the time of Abraham. For his servant gave unto Rebecca bracelets, when he desired to have her for a wife, for Isaac his Masters Sonne. The Romans also sometimes used them, as we may gather out of Plautus in Epidico: Doest thou not remember (saith he) that I brought thee an earing on thy birth day? The Egyptians also used them: for it is written of Cleopatra, that she took from her ear a most precious pearl, and dissolved it in vinegar, when she contended with Antonius for a sumptuous preparation of a banquet. The Carthaginenses also were decked with bracelets, as Plautus in Penulo testifieth. For thus he writeth: And as I suppose, they have no fingers on their hands, because they go with ringed ears. Gideon took also purple garments: but whither he used them to his purpose,