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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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Neither is it to be forgotten, that those which do think that giants had Angels to their parents & not men, do therefore seem to suppose so,1 because they think it is not possible, ye huge giants can be borne of men of usual bigness & stature. Wherefore some of them have gone so far, that they have affirmed that the first man was a giant, and that Noah also & his children were Giants because they ⟨image 23⟩believed not that the kind of men could be either before or after the flood, except their first progenitors had been such, if it were thought they should be borne of men. But Augustine proveth that to be false & saith,2 that a little before the overthrow made by the Goths, there was a woman at Rome of a giants stature, whom very many out of diverse countries came to see. Which woman's parents nevertheless exceeded not the common accustomed stature of other men.3 But as touching the cause of this huge bigness of giants, if we should look upon nature then can we bring no other reason, but a strong natural heat, & also a moisture which abundantly & largely ministereth matter, for the heat doth extend the same not only into length, but also it poureth out & spreadeth it both to breadth & also to thickness. Giants therefore began before the flood, they were also before the accompanying of the sons of god with the daughters of men, & after that also continued their generation. Men therefore begat them, and had a natural cause such as we have said. There were also some without doubt after the flood, for there is mention made of them in the book of Num. Deut. Joshua, 4Judges. Samuel, Paralip, and other holy books. Concerning their bigness & stature we may partly guess and partly we have it expressedly described. The conjectures are because Goliath had a cote of male weighing v.m. sicles, and a spear like a weavers beam, and the Iron or top of his spear weighed 600. sicles. We conjecture also that Og king of Bashan was of a wonderful bigness and that by his bed, which being of Iron contained 9. cubits in length. And the Israelites compared with Enachim seemed as grasshoppers. These he signs whereby we may judge how big these men were. But the bigness of Goliath is described properly and distinctly in the book of Samu. For it is said that he was 6. cubits and a hand breadth high.