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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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And after Abimelech, rose up Thola. In that it is written both of this Judge, and of the other: And there rose up: we must not for all that think, that they of their own mind claimed unto them selves the principality, but they were ⟨image 179⟩elected unto it by the lord, and of him set to rule by the people of Israel. And they are said to have risen up, because they followed the instinct of the Lord.
And after Abimelech, rose vp Thola. In that it is written both of this Iudge, and of the other: And there rose vp: wee must not for all that thinke, that they of theyr owne minde claimed vnto thē selues the principality, but they wer ⟨image 179⟩elected vnto it by the lord, and of him set to rule by the people of Israel. And thei are sayd to haue risen vp, bycause they followed the instinct of the Lord.
To save Israel. Between good princes and tyrants this is the difference: Tyrants seek only their own gain, but good magistrates have only a care for this, to save the people. David Kimhi thinketh that Abimelech also saved the Israelites, although he both slew his brethren and made civil wars.1 For he was a warlike and stout man: wherefore outward nations feared him. But I will not easily grant unto this sentence: for as much as the holy scriptures mention not that he made wars with outward nations, which they would not have otherwise left unspoken of. If thou wilt say, that it may therefore seem that he saved Israel, by cause he is numbered among the Judges: I answer, this is rather to be marked, that the scriptures called him not a Judge, but rather a king: neither is it written that he judged, but reigned. But in that he is numbered among the Judges, that was the cause which we have before touched, namely that the virtues of the Judges might be more illustrat, and that it might be made manifest, how much princes that are given of God, do excel those which men choose unto themselves. Josephus in his book de antiquitatibus leaveth out this Thola, and only maketh mention of the other;