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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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Against Canaan. This is sometimes a general name,1 & containeth all these nations, which God had decreed to destroy out of Palestine, whereby all the land was afterward called Canaan. And sometimes it signifieth particularly some one nation of that people. And that lay chiefly about Tyre & Sidon. Which the Evangelical history proveth when it calleth the woman a Canaanite which offered her self to the Son of God, when he was going to Tyre & Sidon. And of that nation peradventure, because it was mightier than the other, were the rest called Canaanites. And I will not overskip this by the way, that the people which is singularly called Canaan, when they were driven out of their coasts by the Israelites, they departed to Africa, where they remained safe, even to the time of Augustine. 2So that the father writeth in his book of the exposition which he begun upon the epistle to the Romans thus: Our rusticals being demanded what they were, they answered in the Africa tong, Canaanites. And their language is very nigh to the Hebrew tong,3 as the same Augustine writeth in his book of questions upon the Judges the .16. question. For by Baal in the Africa tong they seem to say Lord, whereby by Baal Samen is understood as though they would say, Lord of heaven: because these tongues differ not much one from an other. Hierome also agreeth therewith,4 writing upon Isaiah the prophet, when he interpreteth these words: Behold a virgin shall conceive, in the Africa tong (saith he) which is said to have had his offspring of the Hebrews.5 A virgin is properly called Almah. Also Virgil when he called Dido an Aphrician & a Sidonian & the inhabitants of Carthage Tyrians hath most manifestly confirmed that Dido & her people came of the Canaanites. Wherefore it is no marvel if they almost kept in remembrance the Chananishe tong. But these things I have spoken by the way. But now Canaan signifieth no one special nation, but is a common word for all those nations which the Israelites should overthrow. For the tribe of Judah which is said to have gone up first of all to the war,6