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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.
22 Then were the hooves of the horses broken with the oft beating together of the mighty men.
22 Then were the houfes of the horses broken with the oft beating together of the mighty men.
Here is set forth the third calamity, namely that their horses hoofs were broken. ⟨image 116⟩By nature in deed the horse hooves are mighty and strong, neither are they easily cloven, but the spurring of them forward to ruin was so great in this conflict, that they were worn away. This word Sos, that is a horse, is spoken in the singular number. And that number is also used of our men both Poets and Orators, in stead of the plural number. For we say that France hath overcome Spain,1 and Virgil sayeth: The stout Roman was no less valiant then his fathers. When the houses of the horses were broken and torn, the horsemen could neither invade the Hebrews, neither yet were they able to save themselves by flying away. The Hebrews because they want a superlative degree, therefore to express it, they double both nouns and verbs: as it is here said Miunharoth Deharoth that is of great and very often leapynges. Wherefore the repetition of one self same word serveth not only for the adorning of the sentence but also to express the vehemency of the signification. There are therefore three, discommodities now rehearsed, which came unto the Canaanites, namely one from heaven, an other from the river, and the third of the hooves of the horses being broken.