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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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Whereunto I will add that there be very many Cities professing the gospel which do not admit the marriages of brethren and sisters children, as Surike, Berna, Basil, Schapusin, Sangallum, Biema, &c. In the kingdom also of England when I was there, that degree was excluded from matrimony. Wherefore in places where the magistrate forbiddeth these marriages the faithful ought for those causes which I have before declared to abstain from them.
Whereunto I will adde that there be very many Cities professing the gospell whiche do not admitte the mariages of brethren and sisters children, as Surike, Berna, Basile, Schapusin, Sangallum, Biema, &c. In the kingdome also of England when I was there, that degree was excluded from matrimony. Wherfore in places where the magistrate forbyddeth these mariages the faithful ought for those causes whiche I haue before declared to abstayne from them.
But now I will go to the present matter, If Othoniel as I have before said were cousin unto Achsa, he might marry her by the law of God: but if he were her uncle, it was not lawful by the common law. But he married her. Wherefore we must needs say one of these two things: either that it was a fault, for the fathers as we have before said were not always free from sin: or else that god would have this done by a privilege or certain prerogative, which we may not for all that take example by. Neither is this to be forgotten, that after the accustomed manner of Scriptures,1 they which were any way of kin together were called brethren, as Loth is called the brother of Abraham, & the kinsfolks of Jesus Christ the Son of God are called in the history of the gospel his brethren. So may it also be in this place that Othoniel may be called the brother of Caleb, when as he was but only some other way of kin unto him. And the interpreters do use this exposition often times, which I would not disallow, but that I see this particle in the text, The younger, which is not wont to be added, but when sisters and brethren in deed are compared together. But now will I go to other things which are to be considered in this history.