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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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David Kimhi in defending this sentence bringeth these reasons. First he weigheth the words of Jephthah, what soever cometh out of my house, shall be the Lords, & I will offer it for a burnt offering. This letter Vau being a conjunction copulative, as we have before said, he thinketh to make a proposition disjunctive: as if it should have ben said: If it be such a thing as may be sacrificed, it shall be sacrificed: but if otherwise, it shall be the Lords, & it shall be dedicated unto him. Farther he saith that the maiden desired space, to bewail her virginity: neither is it written to bewail her soul or life. Wherefore it seemeth that she bewailed this only, that she should want a husband & children. But if she should have ben offered up, she ought chiefly to have lamented for her life. Lastly saith he that the very words of the history declare this thing. For it is not said ye Jephthah sacrificed her: but did according to his vow. If he had killed her, it should have ben written, And he offered her a burnt offering to the Lord. Of the same opinion is R. L. ben Gerson, & he addeth,1 that it is written in the text, And she knew no man. As though hereby might be understand, what kind of sacrifice it was. And he thinketh ye Jephthah builded a house for her, where she should live a lone, & he permitted her fellow virgins once in a year to go and see her, and bewail her virginity together with her. And afterward he addeth that a man so dedicated, ought not to live without a wife, because the man is not subject unto the wife. Samuel, although he were dedicated unto the Lord by the decree of his mother, yet had he wife and children. But a woman being so dedicated could not marry: because it was necessary that she should serve her husband, and if he removed any whether, she should go together with him. And therefore it is written, that Jephthah did unto her according unto his vow, and she knew no man.
Dauid Kimhi in defēding this sētence bringeth these reasōs. First he weigheth the wordes of Iiphtah, what soeuer cōmeth out of my house, shalbe ye Lordes, & I will offer it for a burnt offring. This letter Vau being a cōiunction copulatiue, as we haue before said, he thinketh to make a propositiō disiūctiue: as if it should haue ben sayd: If it be such a thing as may be sacrificed, it shalbe sacrificed: but if otherwise, it shalbe the Lords, & it shalbe dedicated vnto him. Farther he sayth yt ye maydē desired space, to bewayle her virginity: neither is it written to bewayle her soule or life. Wherfore it seemeth yt she bewayled this onely, that she should wāt a husbād & childrē. But if she should haue ben offred vp, she ought chiefly to haue lamēted for her life. Lastly saith he yt ye very wordes of ye history declare this thing. For it is not sayd ye Iiphtah sacrificed her: but did accordyng to hys vowe. If he had killed her, it should haue ben writtē, And he offred her a burnt offring to the Lord. Of the same opiniō is R. L. ben Gerson, & he addeth,