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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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21 The river Kison swept them away, the river of ancients, the river Kison, O my soul thou hast marched valiantly.
21 The riuer Kison swepte them away, the riuer of auncientes, the riuer Kison, O my soule thou hast marched valiauntly.
To the help of the heaven and of the stars, the river favourably joined it self: for it swelled, when as otherwise it was wont to be but small. Wherefore it was so increased, that it both choked and swept away many of the enemies. But this word Goth signifieth not by any means to sweep, but as it happeneth when a house is swept or made clean with brooms, for then what soever is unclean, it is together with the dust cast forth. So in this destruction, they which were counted noble, were in the same sort swept away, as if they had been dust and filth. This word River is often repeated in this verse, which undoubtedly is pleasant, when it is in due place done: which I therefore speak, least any should think these repetitions to be to no purpose. Yea and Cicero also writeth in solute oration:1 When I shall come again into favour with Appius Claudius, and shall come again by Cu. Pompeius: I therefore when I shall come again, &c. And this Kyson is called Kedumim as though it had two names, and were called by both the names, or else because there peradventure was some other river so called, which river because it ran into Kyson, gave it also his name. But some translate that word of Ancientness, namely of Counsels: because God himself had before the foundations of the world were laid, created and appointed that river to this purpose, to be an aid unto him in this victory in time to come. It chanced not so, that the whole host of Sisera was drowned in that river. For how could that be, when there was an incredible number of soldiers, and the river of so narrow a breadth? But as it is to be thought, the chief rulers & captains which entered into the water with their horses & chariots, were drowned: which thing when the other soldiers saw, their courage was both daunted, & also they turned themselves to flight. And we see this to come to pass oftentimes in camps, that those things which of their own nature seem to be of no great value, do much profit either this party or the part in the victory. This act without doubt hath some affinity, with the drowning of Pharaoh, but that the sea is not so well compared with a little river: neither did a part of Pharaoh's host perish in the Sea, but the whole host was overwhelmed in it. But all these men (as we have said) were not drowned in Kison.