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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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They which think otherwise, have not passing two or three authors, but I have many which are on my side, and especially the ancient Rabbins, which lived at that time, wherein the Chaldee Paraphrast, and the writing of the Talmud was made.1 For the Chaldee Paraph. affirmeth, that the maiden was slain. Josephus, Ambrosius, and Augustin are of the same opinion. And we have reasons §1not to be contemned. First, because there was no law in the old time, that maidens should vow chastity: yea rather it was a curse, if a woman had died without children and barren. Yea and god promised unto the hebrews, if you observe my law there shall be no barren woman among you. Neither is it very likely, that §2holy men would by their vow hinder this promise. Farther in all the scriptures ⟨p. 196⟩revealed by god, there remaineth no example of such a thing. Also by this interpretation, §3we should seem after a sort to confirm monastical vows, which are plainly against the holy scriptures. For Paul admonisheth that he which cannot contain, §4should marry a wife. I will not speak how Jephthah tarried not for the consent of the maiden before he vowed, without which (as I have before showed) the vow of Virginity could not be ratified. I have opened my mouth (saith he) unto the Lord, and I cannot go back. Wherefore he vowed not the Virginity of the maiden, when as he asked not counsel of her. To this also serveth the weeping §5of the Virgins, and therewithal the weeping of the maiden herself. For she desired, that she might with her fellows bewail her Virginity. But if it were a vow, why should she have lamented it? We use to bewail our sins, & not our vows. But the cause that moved the Rabbins, Kimhi & Ben Gerson, was this, because they will either allow or excuse the act of Jephthah. But we must not labour for that: not that we would willingly uncover the defaults of the fathers, but because we see that things which are not well done, are not to be excused. Moreover, also this doth not a little move me, because the Jews at §6