A68840:1775
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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She committed adultery by him. We might also say against him. For there is great injury done unto the man, when the wife playeth the whore. And this preposition All signifieth either. But the plainer sense is by him. As though it should have been said that she committed adultery, when she was yet together with her husband, and had not departed from him.
She committed aduoutry by hym. We might also say against him. For ther is great iniury done vnto the man, when the wife playeth the whoore. And this preposicion All signifeth either. But the plainer sense is by him. As thoughe it should haue bene said that she committed aduoutry, when she was yet together with her husband, and had not departed from him.
She fled to her father. Being so afeard of her husband that she durst not come in his sight, she got her to her fathers house. Adultery is committed, which is a grievous crime, and yet is not punished by the punishment of the law, for that there was no Magistrate to execute judgements. And though in all persons adultery is a grievous wicked act,1 yet in the wife of a Levite or Priest it is far more grievous, for as much as the holy ministry ought to be well spoken of. Wherefore if the daughter of a Priest had played the harlot in her Fathers house, she was not stoned as other were, but burnt with fire, as it is expressedly written in Deuteronomy. But why this adulteress was not slain, the cause (as it is before said) was, for that there was no Magistrate in Israel. ⟨p. 249⟩And this adulteress might think to herself that she had escaped punishment,2 as touching men, but she could not escape the hand of God. For god shall judge adulterers and whoremongers, as the Epistle to the Hebrews teacheth, which thing he doth sometimes by magistrates: and sometimes when they cease, by himself. The woman was with her parents .4. months, in which space of time, her husband being either moved with mercy, or wearied with solitariness, went to seek his wife, and to speak to her heart.