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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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She lighted of her Ass. She lighted, to declare her due obeisance towards her father, and to make her petition the more acceptable, and she so lighted that she knelled on the ground with her knees, as the Hebrew word signifieth. For the Hebrews use that word, Sanach, when they will signify a stake or wedge or any such thing to be driven. To be short, she asked upon her knees those things which she desired. Rebekah also, as it is written in the book of Gen. when she saw Isaac to whom she was brought for to be his wife, she lighted of her camel whereon she sat. Neither let us marvel that Achsah being the daughter of a prince rode on an Ass:1 seeing that in Syria Asses are very much used: for this kind of beast, which is of his own nature cold, is more used in hotter countries, than in regions toward the north. And as we shall hear in this history, fifty sons of a certain judge road upon fifty Asses. Mephiboseth also the nephew of Saul the king, and Balaam the Prophet used this kind of beast.2 Neither is it in vain that this request for waters is so diligently described in this place: for as much as Syria hath ground fertile enough, but that it wanteth water here and there. Wherefore it cometh to pass that rivers and fountains of waters are much esteemed in those places. And God of purpose brought his people to these so dry regions, neither would he have them dwell in watery places, that they wailing for water might continually depend upon him, and thereby might have the better occasion, to pray the oftener to the heavenly father, and the more fervently to observe his commandments. Neither hath God him self left this his counsel unmentioned of in the holy scriptures.
She lighted of her Asse. She lighted, to declare her due obeysaunce towardes her father, and to make her peticion the more acceptable, and she so lighted that she kneled on the grounde with her knees, as the Hebrew word signifieth. For the Hebrewes vse that worde, Sanach, when they will signifie a stake or wedge or any such thyng to be driuen. To be shorte, she asked vpon her knees those thinges whiche she desired. Rebecka also, as it is written in the booke of Gen. whē she sawe Isaak to whom she was brought for to be hys wife, she lighted of her camele wheron she sat. Neither let vs meruayle that Achsah beyng the daughter of a prince rode on an Asse:1