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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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14 And the Lord looked upon him, & said: Go in this thy strength, and thou shalt save Israel out of the land of Midian. Have not I sent thee?
14 And the Lord looked vpon hym, & said: Go in this thy strength, and thou shalt saue Israel out of the lande of Madian. Haue not I sent thee?
The Angel looked upon Gideon, when he had spoken these words: For peradventure whilst he spake them, he looked not upon him: but then he beheld him, when he sent him to deliver the Israelites. But in that he saith In this strength, it is expounded two manner of ways. The Hebrews say, that by the sight of the Angel he was filled with strength, and therefore it is said: go thou in this strength, which I have now given thee, and thou shalt deliver Israel from the Midianites. Neither is it any strange thing, that God doth change those whom he chooseth to any function, and endueth them with sundry gifts. For we read that it so happened unto David and Saul, when they were called to be kings. And it is expressedlye written in this book that Jephthah and Samson were adorned with the spirit of strength. That strength also may here be noted, which God used in helping the fathers, when for them he wrought miraculous things in the time of Moses and Joshua. Gideon had demanded where those marvellous works were now become, and therefore the Angel answered him: Go in that strength, whereby those things in times past were wrought, and by it deliver Israel. By which words the Angel declareth, that he should not by his own strength bring to pass the things which he had commanded him, but by that power of God, which was given the fathers in the old time,1