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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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For Balaam the Prophet in the .24. chap. of Num. prophesied peculiarly of the Kenites, 1that they should have their habitations in the most fenced places, and that they should there abide, till they were led away captives by the Assyrians, & he joineth them (as it appeareth manifestly in that place) with Amelek: for (as I said before) they inhabited all one land with the Amalekites. Wherefore it is gathered that Jethro so departed from Moses into Midian, to dwell there continually. And so it might be that Balaam the Prophet joined the Kenites with the Amalekites, of which Kenites nevertheless part were with the Israelites, for as much as Jethro (as it is said) left his son with them.
For Balaam the Prophet in the .24. chap. of Num. prophecied peculiarly of the Kenites, 1that they should haue their habitations in the most fenced places, and yt thei should there abide, til they were led away captiues by the Assirians, & he ioyneth them (as it appeareth manifestly in that place) with Amelek: for (as I sayd before) they inhabited al one land with the Amelekites. Wherfore it is gathered that Iethro so departed from Moyses into Madian, to dwell there continually. And so it might be that Balaam the Prophet ioyned the Kenites with the Amelekites, of which Kenites neuerthelesse part were with the Israelites, for as much as Iethro (as it is sayd) left his sonne with them.
- 1Balaam the Prophet.
Besides this in the .x. chap. of Num. Hobab was desired of Moses, to come & go with the Israelites, whether they went: who refused to go any farther, because he was minded to return home into his country. For he was left there of his father to be better instructed in the worshipping of God, and he abode with the Israelites till they were ready to depart thence, And then he thought to have returned into his country: but being desired of Moses, he consented at length to journey forth with the Israelites. But these things could not have been so, if we should think ye Hobab had been Jethro, which after he had divided & set his things in order should have returned again to Moses, with the mind & purpose to have gone forward with the Israelites. For what needed Moses to have entreated him to do that, for which cause he came from his own house to do? Or why should he have changed his purpose to return into his own country, which he had before utterly forsaken? Lastly why should he afterward have denied to go, which he had before decreed with himself to do? I know in deed there be some but not many which affirm, that Jethro was that Hobab with whom Moses spake in the book of Num. which thing let them affirm for me, howbeit I thought good to declare what I judged most likely.