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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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16 And he divided the .300. men into three bands, and gave every man a trumpet in his hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17 And he said unto them: Look on me, and do likewise. For be hold I will come to the side of the host, & then even as I do, so do ye. 18 For I will blow with a trumpet, and all they that are with me: Then blow ye also with trumpets on every side of the host, and ye shall say: For the Lord, and for Gideon. 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the host, in the beginning of the middle watch, and they raised up the watchmen, and they blew with their trumpets, and brake the pitchers, which they had in their hands.
16 And he deuided the .300. men into three bandes, and gaue euerye man a trumpet in hys hand, wyth empty pytchers, and lampes wythin the pytchers. 17 And he sayd vnto them: Looke on me, and doo lykewyse. For be hold I wil come to the syde of the host, & then euen as I do, so do ye. 18 For I wil blow wyth a trumpet, and al they that are wyth me: Then blow ye also wyth trumpets on euery syde of the hoste, and ye shal say: For the Lord, and for Gideon. 19 So Gideon, and the hundreth men that were with hym, came vnto the outsyde of the hoste, in the beginning of the mydle watche, and they raysed vp the watchmen, and they blew with their trumpets, and brake the pitchers, which they had in their handes.
Gideons industry or policy is here set forth,1 and the favour wherewith God prospered his successes and enterprises. He divideth his three hundred men into three bands, that he might on sundry parts invade the Midianites, and by a sudden fear trouble their host on every side. He used also another policy concerning the time, for he set upon them in the night. For when they were in a manner in a dead sleep, they were the easilyer by a great hurly burly astonished with fear. Farther, he chose the most commodious part in all the night, for such a purpose: for he assailed the Midianites about the beginning of the second watch or guard. Wherefore it is called Rosch Haticonath, that is, the head or beginning of the middle watch or guard. This word Toch signifieth within: