A68840:1975
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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But that they bound themselves with an oath, that they would not give their daughters in matrimony to the Beniamites, it is not in this history mentioned: but yet it is most likely that it then happened, when they were in Mizpah, & the Beniamites would not deliver the guilty. Wherefore the Beniamites were oppressed with great miseries. For ether they must take to wives foreign & strange women, which thing was prohibited them by the law, or else they must perpetually lead a sole life without wives, and so that tribe should utterly perish.1 The Israelites in that they mourn, do suffer punishments for their cruelty. For it should have ben enough for them to have punished the men. What need was there to slay women & maidens which had nothing offended? Unless peradventure they had vowed the vow Cherem. But such a vow it was not lawful for them to vow, but by the authority ⟨image 286⟩and commandment of God, which appeareth not to have been done in this history. In revenging we must keep a mean: for all are not to be slain which come into the power of them that overcome. It is sufficient to punish the guilty.2 God slew in Egypt Pharaoh, also the first begotten, and many other, yet destroyed he not the whole nation. And when he destroyed Sodom, he saved both Lot and also his family, and delivered from misery the city Zoar, whither Lot went. And in the flood when he drowned the world with water, yet he would save on live Noah with his family. But it seemeth that these men determined, utterly to destroy all the Beniamites: which their counsel God allowed not, who when the Jews were afflicted of the Chaldeans, and they raged more cruelly against them then was mete, both threatened to punish them, and also did indeed punish them most grievously.
But that they bound themselues with an othe, yt they woulde not geue their doughters in matrimony to the Beniamites, it is not in this history mencioned: but yet it is most likely yt it thē happened, whē they were in Mizpah, & the Beniamites would not deliuer the guilty. Wherfore the Beniamites wer oppressed wt great miseries. For ether they must take to wiues foren & straūge wemē, which thing was prohibited thē by the law, or els they must perpetually lead a sole life without wiues, and so that tribe should vtterly perish.