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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.
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God had not commanded in the law, to make an Ephod to this use, but only that the Priests should put it on, when they should do sacrifice. Neither is it needful now to describe the form of this garment, for as much as in Exodus ⟨p. 151⟩it is most manifestly set forth: this thing only I will admonish you of,1 that there were two kinds of it, as the holy scriptures declare, & as Jerome both to Marcella, & to Fabiola, & against Jovinianus the first book testifieth. There was one which only the high Priest used. It was made of purple violet colour, silk, & scarlet, it had gold wrought in it, & sundry kinds of most precious stones. There was also an other which was called Ephod bad, that is a linen Ephod, which the Levites also used in holy services. Wherefore in the .1. of Samuel the .2. chap. we read, that Hanna made every year for Samuel a little coat and an Ephod, when she had then offered him unto the Lord, to minister at the tabernacle. Yea and David being girt with an Ephod, danced before the Ark of the Lord. The children also of David were girt with an Ephod. But Gideon made his a pontifical and precious Ephod, for the other kind was simple & of linen, wherefore he should not have needed so great cost to make such a one. For there were gathered (as the history teacheth) a thousand seven hundred (as many expound them) sicles of gold. Some suppose that Gideon did therefore make an Ephod, that even as Micah durst take upon him, to have a holy ministry at home in his own house, so did Gideon now attempt the same. But of this sentence we will afterward speak, when we declare Augustine's mind of this thing. But now following the interpretation which we have already begun, which is of those which say, that Gideon made this, to remain as a sign and monument of the benefit of God given unto the Hebrews, this I judge is to be added, that the vulgar men began to have in admiration the sign which was set up, and as they were prone to superstitions, they journeyed thither, and offered peace offerings there, which thing was a ruin and snare unto them: for by title and little they fell into idolatry. Neither was Gideon without blame. For he erected the monument, & abused the sign: & when he saw how the people fell, yet took he not away that monument, but rather winked at it.
God had not commaunded in the law, to make an Ephod to this vse, but onely that the Priestes should put it on, when they should doo sacrifice. Neyther is it needeful now to describe the forme of this garment, for as much as in Exodus