A68840:1706
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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The son bringeth again unto his mother the money which he had taken a way. She straightway saith: Blessed art thou in the Lord my son. As though she should have said: Now I revoke my curses, and turn them to good and lucky prayers. How superstitious the woman was, appeareth by these words. She commē death her son, because he had brought the money again: but she reproveth him not, because he had before stolen it. Straightway she entreateth with him about idolatry. This money saith she, thou shalt not lose, thou shalt have it indeed, but yet in an idol. Neither made they only a molten and graven image, but also an Ephod: 1by which word we must by the figure Synecdoche understand all ornaments longing unto a priest. For an Ephod if we speak properly, signifieth a priests garment that cometh over his shoulders.
The sonne bringeth againe vnto his mother the money which he had taken a way. She straightway saith: Blessed art thou in the Lord my sonne. As though she should haue said: Now I reuoke my curses, and turne thē to good and lucky prayers. How supersticious ye woman was, appeareth by these words. She commē deth her sonne, bycause he had brought the money againe: but she reproueth him not, bicause he had before stollen it. Straightway she entreateth with him about idolatrye. This mony sayth she, thou shalt not lose, thou shalte haue it indede, but yet in an idole. Neyther made they onely a molten and grauē image, but also an Ephod: 1by which woorde wee muste by the figure Sinechdoche vnderstande all ornamentes longing vnto a priest. For an Ephod if we speake properly, signifieth a priests garment that commeth ouer his shoulders.
- 1The papists tunicle.The papistes tunicle.
1They made also Teraphim. Touching the signification of this word, there is great ambiguity among the expositors. But I understand it to be that idol which they had graven and molten, when all the other things were ready which served for idolatry, they at the length brought that image unto the temple. And of these Teraphim or images they were wont in the old time to ask oracles. In Genesis we read that Rachel the wife of Jacob stale away the Teraphim of her father. And in the first of Samuel the .19. chapter when David escaped, Michel put in his bed Teraphim. In Amos also the third chapter, it is written: There shall be neither Ephod nor Teraphim, that is, ye shall be so vexed and led into exile, that ye shall neither be able to worship god nor idols. In Ezekiel also it is written: They shall enquire of Teraphim. An in Zechariah the .x. chapter: The Teraphim spake lies. Other think that Teraphim were certain instruments of Astronomy, whereby hours, degrees, elevations, declinations, both of the sun and of other stars are taken. Which opinion Abin Ezra reciteth in the history of Rachel. But I think not this sentence true. For here is entreated of an Idol, in worshipping whereof there needed no astronomical instruments.