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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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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.1 Chrysostom also writeth many things of this matter, but altogether far from the History: he followeth allegories, so that in a manner no certainty can be gathered out of him. But Jerome writeth against himself. In his Epistle to Julianus, he saith that Jephthah was numbered among the saints, because he offered his daughter. But in his .1. book against Jovinianus he writeth, after the mind of the Hebrews, that because he made an evil vow by the dispensation of god, he felt his error in the death of his daughter. For there mought have met him either a dog, or an ass, which had hen wicked to have offered: and so in one place he praiseth that, which in an other place he dispraiseth.
There were other whiche thought that Iiphtah did in very dede offer ye mayden, which in these tymes ought not to seme so new and vnaccustomed a thing. For God required of Abraham to offer his sonne, and such a vow was thought of many to be most acceptable vnto God, and that opinion also did spread abrode among the Ethnikes wherfore, this sentence is often spoken: Thou hast asswaged the windes with bloud, & with ye virgin slayne. There are workes of Poetes whiche make mencion of Pollixena & Iphigenia: & also Historyes of the Curtians and Decians. And vndoubtedly with this exposition agreeth the Chaldey Paraphrast, which among the Hebrues is in a maner in the same estimation and authority that the holy scriptures are in. That Paraphrast sayth, that the mayden was immolated: & reproueth Iiphtah, bycause he asked not counsell of the hyghe priest. And the same thing do al the auncient Rabines thinke, which also reprehēd the highe priest, bicause he of his own accord went not vnto Iiphtah. Iosephus also is of their opinion.