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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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Hezekiah afterward did more rightly, who when he saw the people offer incense unto the brazen serpent, he brake it down. Certain Rabbins labour to excuse Gideon, because with a good mind he caused the Ephod or monument of the benefit of God to be made, but the Israelites misused it. But they go about that in vain, for as much as the scripture saith, that it turned to the destruction of Gideon and his house.
Ezechias afterward did more rightly, who when he saw the people offer insence vnto the brasen serpent, he brake it downe. Certaine Rabbines labour to excuse Gideon, bycause wyth a good mynde he caused the Ephod or monument of the benefite of God to bee made, but the Israelites misused it. But they go about that in vaine, for as much as the scripture sayth, that it turned to the destruction of Gideon and his house.
Augustine entreating of this place,1 thinketh that the figure of Synecdoche is here to be understand, so that by this word Ephod, all priestly ornaments may be noted, as though Gideon would in his City have an holy ministry: which was plainly against the will of God, who had appointed to be worshipped at the Ark of the covenant. That was no other thing, then to pluck away men from the tabernacle of God, & after a sort to divide the church. Gideon & the people did not (saith Augustine) sacrifice unto idols, but with these garments they constituted a worshipping unto the true God in Gideon his house, that is in Ophra. But forasmuch as they did otherwise then God had prescribed, they fell therefore into a certain kind of Idolatry. And that Gideon worshipped not idols, it doth not only hereby appear, in that he overthrew the altar of Baal, cut down his grove, and offered upon the alter of God, the bullock consecrated unto Baal, but also because the people all his life time (as we shall straightway hear) are said not to have worshipped Baal.
Augustine intreating of this place,1