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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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Paul in his .1. Epistle to the Corinthians the .7. chapter writeth: If the father shall determine firmly in his hart, having power over his own will, to keep his virgin unmarried, he doth well, &c. Why writeth he having power over his own will? If the maiden her self will, the father may keep her unmarried, so that she consent. But Jephthah knew nothing of the will of his daughter, when he vowed, wherefore he ought not to think his vow to be ratified, when his daughter met him. And if this kind of vow was not firm in the new testament, it was of much less value in the old Testament, where the vow of virginity was not known. But of this thing I have spoken more in my little book of Vows.
Paul in his .1. Epistle to the Corinthians the .7. chapter writeth: If the father shall determine firmely in his hart, hauing power ouer his owne will, to keepe his virgine vnmaried, he doth well, &c. Why writeth he hauing power ouer his owne will? If the mayden her selfe will, the father may kepe her vnmaried, so that she consent. But Iiphtah knew nothing of the will of his daughter, whē he vowed, wherfore he ought not to thinke his vow to be ratified, when his daughter met him. And if this kynd of vowe was not firme in the new testamēt, it was of much les value in the olde Testament, where the vowe of virginity was not knowen. But of this thing I haue spoken more in my litle booke of Vowes.
There were other which thought that Jephthah did in very deed offer the maiden, which in these times ought not to seem so new and unaccustomed a thing. For God required of Abraham to offer his son, and such a vow was thought of many to be most acceptable unto God, and that opinion also did spread abroad among the Ethnics wherefore, this sentence is often spoken: Thou hast assuaged the winds with blood, & with the virgin slain. There are works of Poets which make mention of Pollixena & Iphigenia: & also Histories of the Curtians and Decians. And undoubtedly with this exposition agreeth the Chaldee Paraphrast, which among the Hebrews is in a manner in the same estimation and authority that the holy scriptures are in. That Paraphrast saith, that the maiden was immolated: & reproveth Jephthah, because he asked not counsel of the high priest. And the same thing do all the ancient Rabbins think, which also reprehend the high priest, because he of his own accord went not unto Jephthah. Josephus also is of their opinion.