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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.
Joshua lived not so long time as did Moses, 1whom he by the commandment of the Lord succeeded, for Moses was an .120. years old when he dyed. But the same things which we read in this place concerning the death and burial of Joshua, are by as many words expressed in his own book the .24. chap. The place where they buried him namely in mount Ephraim was his own possession. For of that Tribe came Joshua. 2And the Elders provided to have Funerals and Sepulchres in their own possessions. For which cause it is written in the book of Joshua toward the end, that the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites brought with them out of Egypt, were buried in Shechem, in that field I say, which Jacob had assigned as proper unto Joseph. And it followeth: Eleazer also the son of Aaron dyed, whom they buried in a hill that pertained to Phinehes his son, which hill was given him in mount Ephraim. But as touching the name of the City, in that it is here called Thimnath-Haeres, 3Rabbi Selomoh toward the end of the book of Joshua writeth that Thimnath is as much as Temunath, which is an Image. And for so much as Chaeres signifieth the Sun, it declareth that the Children of Israel placed the Image of the Sun upon the Sepulchre of Joshua, that it might remain as a monument of the miracle by him wrought. For he commanded the Sun and the Moon to stand still, ⟨image 73⟩until he had finished the battle. That therefore so noble a work might not be had in oblivion, he supposeth that his tomb was adorned with those tokens. That this word Chaeres signifieth the Sun, Isaiah the .19. chap. and Job the .9. do testify. Howbeit, this is to be considered in the book of Joshua, that the name of this place doth vary. For in the book of Joshua it is written Timuna Serech, 4which yet R. D. Kimhi thinketh to be all one, the letters being somewhat transposed, which is a familiar and a thing much used in the hebrew tongue, as they that are learned in the same well know.
Iosua lyued not so long tyme as dyd Moyses,