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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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But now seeing his fathers name was Kenaz, 1& Caleb had Hesron or Jephuna to his father, how near of kin were they then? Some hold opinion that Kenaz, when Hesron or Jephuna was dead, married his wife, who had not only her with him, but also kept her son namely Caleb, being but a little one, whom she had by her first husband, then they say he had Othoniel by her, whereby they conclude that Othoniel and Caleb came both of one mother, but not of one father. Wherefore Othoniel was by nature the son of Kenaz, but Caleb was called also the son of Kenaz, because he & Othoniel were brought up together with Kenaz. R. D. confuteth this opinion,2 because it is never red in the holy scriptures that any Israelite took his surname of his mother, and much less of his Stepfather:3 For every one in that public wealth took always their surnames of their fathers, as the Gersonites, Merarites, & Levites. And by the book of Paralip. he saith may be known that that manner was so still kept & observed. This reason if it be true in deed, as it seemeth to be probable refelleth a certain opinion of others, which say that Caleb had a brother, a great deal elder than him self, who was called Kenaz, with whom Caleb was brought up like a son together with Othoniel Kenaz son. Wherefore they seeming after a sort to be both of one age, & being nourished up together, were easily counted brethren, namely the sons of Kenaz, where as in deed Caleb was Kenaz brother. Wherefore it came to pass that they were both of them called the sons of Kenaz. This I say doth R. D. Kimhi judge absurd: for if no man could attain to any kind of surname by the mother or stepfather, then undoubtedly could he not have it by the brother. But the same R. D. Kimhi thinketh that they were brethren every way, because they had both one father and one mother. And therefore both of them are called the sons of Kenaz, but not by their next Parents, but by the name of the family, seeing that both brethren were borne of one and the self family, what shall we then do?4 We are not holpen by the history which we have in hand, & we cannot dissolve the question by the places conferred every way together. Yea and the Jews agree not in it among them selves, neither do they only vary one from an other, but our writers also write nothing like one to an other of it.