A68840:1742
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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Whether is it better thou shouldest be a Priest unto the house of one man, or that thou shouldest be a Priest unto a tribe & to a family in Israel? 20 And the Priests heart was glad, and he took the Ephod and the Teraphim, and the graven Image, and went in the middest of the people. 21 And they turned and departed, and put the children and the cattle, and the substance before them.
Whether is it better thou shouldest be a Priest vnto the house of one mā, or yt thou shouldest be a Priest vnto a tribe & to a familye in Israel? 20 And the Priestes hearte was glad, and he tooke the Ephod and the Theraphim, and the grauen Image, and went in the middest of the people. 21 And they turned and departed, and put the children and the cattell, and the substaunce before them.
The City of Lais is in the book of Joshua called Lesem. And they saw the people dwelling in security. This word people is in this place joined with an adjective of the feminine gender. It is therefore the figure Enallage, because one gender is put for an other. They dwelled careless after the manner of the Zidonians. The Zidonians feared not the Hebrews,1 because they were none of those seven nations, which were delivered to be possessed of them. Farther the Zidonians were men most mighty and of them came many Colonii, which were people dispersed, to seek new seats and specially at Carthage. Wherefore Virgil calleth Dido a Sidonian, 2because she came from thence. But why this City of Lais was in such security,3 there may be other causes given. First it had no molestious neighbours, whereby there should have ben any danger at hand towards them: farther there no was tyrant, which usurped unto himself the dominion of the City. Wherefore forasmuch as they were not vexed, neither by any Tyrant, nor of enemies, they lived securely. These causes are gathered out of the text, & also mentioned of the Hebrews. But I think moreover, that the City had not severe Magistrates,