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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In the xv. chap. of Joshua, where all these things of Achsah and Othoniel are rehearsed in manner, by so many words,1 only three differences are perceived in the word. One is, that which is here Techitioth and Alioth, is there Techitith & Alith. Moreover there it is said Tinna & here is Hicah. Lastly there is Scadah & here is Haschadah. R.D. Kimhi hath noted these things. For the interpreters of the Hebrews are most precise, yea in observing the very pricks, I would they were as quick in sight & diligent in rendering reasons of annotations. Hachsah persuaded & provoked her husband, to ask the field of Caleb her father, which I therefore tell you, because the Latin translation is corrupted. For it hath that the husband persuaded the wife to ask the field of Caleb. 2Furthermore by this we may consider the sharpness of the wit of a woman. She therefore moveth her husband, to ask the field, because she was persuaded with her self, that her father would not deny him that which he should ask. (She thought moreover that if her husband obtained the field, she should easily by her self afterward obtain the waters, whereas if she should have asked them both at one time (namely the field and the waters) it might peradventure be hard to obtain both together. But if the field were first given to her husband, her father might be counted very hard, if he should deny his daughter the waters, she requiring them of him. And in asking she wisely watched a fit time, namely when she should be brought to her husband: for then parents are wont to show them selves more gentle towards their children, when they see that they shall be by & by taken from them. Wherefore though they were at other times hard, then yet they somewhat relent. In this reason of the petition I have followed Levi the son of Gerson, 3who expoundeth that Hachsah would therefore have her husband to ask the ground first that she might the better afterward desire the waters. But R.D. Kimhi. in interpreting of the book of Joshua, saith, that he, namely Othoniel would not ask it,4 wherefore the woman her self was constrained by her self to ask her father. And this seemeth to be the meaning of this interpreter, Caleb had before given unto his daughter the field, as land for her dowry, the soil whereof was dry & barren, wherefore the witty maiden toke occasion to ask, that it might be fertile thorough water.