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A36047	The exposition of Dionysius Syrus written above 900 years since on the evangelist St. Mark / translated by Dudley Loftus ... anno 1672 ; wherewith are bound up several other tracts of the same authour, and an ancient Syriack scholia on the four evangelists, as also some Persian, Armenian, and Greek antiquities, translated as aforesaid : the titles whereof are set down immediately after the Epistle to the reader, with refereuce [sic] to the several pages where they are.	Dionysius Exiguus, d. ca. 540.; Loftus, Dudley, 1619-1695.	1672 (1672)	Wing D1525; ESTC R37278	110,280	261

Christ was to spring from Bethlehem and not knowing that he was born in Bethlehem CHAP. II. FOrty and six years was this Temple in building That building did not require so long a space of time but they were hindred by their bordering Nations CHAP. III. UNless a man shall be born of Water and the Spirit He doth not say Vnless a man hath been born For just men who went before inherited the Kingdom and were not baptized but shall be baptized to wit henceforward CHAP. IV. HIs Disciples went into the City It is probable That as yet he had not commanded them that they should not enter into the City of the Samaritans and they entred not to learn but to buy victuals Was not thy husband That is to say is not because the five husbands which she took dyed one after another she was reputed an Homicide as Thamar was by Judah and for the reproach of Widowhood she took a sixth with a Covenant that he should not have commerce with her as a Wife The sowers That is to say the Prophets The reapers That is to say the Apostles CHAP. V. THere was a feast of the Jewes That is to say Pentecost Which was called in the Hebrew Bethesda That is to say an house of ignominy because they washed therein the Sacrifices from blood and excrements Some men by another reading will have the word to signifie an house of mercies from the help given to the blind and lame it sounds like this The Lord was with Joseph and shed mercy upon him But this is not to be approved because the Greek reads it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is to say a house of the excrements of sheep and instead of Bethesda calls it Bethtsaida And he who descended first after the commotion of the water was cured Some say That it conferred remedy by reason that the body of Esaia was buried there Thou art whole sin no more This sheweth That sin was the cause of his Palsie The Son can do nothing of his own will By this he sheweth the harmony of will between the Father and the Son and doth not set sorth the imbecility of his power For the hour cometh and now is when the dead shall hear He hints the Resurrection of Lazārus The hour cometh when all they who are in the grave Inasmuch as he doth not here add and now is he signifieth the general Resurrection to come CHAP. VI. FOR him the Father hath sealed to be God That is to say That he hath demonstrated and revealed That the Son of man which ye have seen is God I am the bread of life St. Joannis saith That here he calls God the bread of life and where he saith and the bread which I shall give is my body he means his body I am the bread which came down from Heaven That is to say his Godhead And the bread which I shall give is my body That is to say his Humanity No man can come to me unless it be given to him from my Father That is to say without Gods assistance Grace is not to be acquired CHAP. VII THat I have made a man altogether whole Not a part of him only as Circumcision but his whole Body which had the Palsie and if for one member the Sabbath may be broken how much rather shall it be broken for all the Members When Christ cometh no man knows from whence This is to be understood concerning Idiots and not of their Scribes who knew that he was to come from Bethlehem and of the seed of David Search and look for out of Galilee ariseth no Prophet CHAP. VIII THere is found in the Copy of Alexandria the Paragraphy of the Adulterous Woman which they brought to Jesus asking him Whether she ought to be stoned But whil'st he stooped and wrote the sins of every one of them they left her and went their way but Jesus said unto her Go thy way and henceforward do not sin If ye be sons of Abraham That is to say he shews they were not for he said before I know that ye are the seed of Abraham but that by deeds ye are not his sons speaking according to the Apostle Not all those who are of Israel are Israelites And he saw and rejoyced By reason of the nearness of the time he speaks as if he had been already Crucified CHAP. IX Master who did sin he or his Parents that he was born blind Because they heard him say to the sick of the Palsie Sin no more they thought that sin was the cause of his Palsie Neither he sinned nor his Parents Not that they were without sin but that the cause of blindness was not sin and in that he said Neither he sinned he confuteth the Platonick conceit which holdeth That Souls declining from Virtue in their first bodies are in a kind of Torment imprisoned in their second Bodies as in Sepulchres and therefore Bodies are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Sepulchres 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 simata in terms of Affinity and a Soul is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and could 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by these words Neither his Parents he refutes the Jewish Opinion That the sins of the Fathers are imposed on the heads of their Children While it is day the night cometh when no man can work That is to say He calls this World the day wherein men may be justified and he calls the World to come Night where there is no place for Repentance but Paul on the contrary calls this World Night for that spiritual things are not therein discerned I am come for judgment of this world That is to say for tryal of men and above he said That God did not send his Son that he might judge the world to wit That he should pronounce sentence against the sons of men for this was the scope of his second coming for here is Tryal and there is Judgment CHAP. X. AND that they might have more abundantly Not of life but of such corporeal things as they had And it was the Feast of Renovation at Jerusalem and it was Winter On the 25th of December Bicorus the Master of the Host of Antiochus Epiphanes entred into the Temple and erected therein the image of Jupiter and prophaned it and three years afterward as upon the same day Judas Mathabaeus and every year on the same day they celebrate a Feast CHAP. XI LAzarus That is to say an helper and Prince Ephraim saith That after he was raised from the dead John the Evangelist baptized him together with his siners and the Mother of God he preached in Alexandria and was Crowned in the dayes of Tiberius But Eusebius saith That he preached in Cyprus and that he dyed there and was buried there And if a man walk in the day he stumbleth not That is to say with me whom am the Sun of righteousness Whose name was Caiphas It is said That this was Josephus the Writer he whom the Romans

and be comforted in the Vision of the Divine image Again Vision is taken in seven several significations but generally it may be reduced into three viz. to Sense Reason and Faith and God is onely seen by Faith and Faith is the persuasion of those things which are in Hope Again He is seen in his Works according to that They shall seek after God and find him out in his creatures The Organ of this sight is a pure Heart which doth not adhere to earthly Things Furthermore They call sight the light and revelation which the Soul receiveth from within by the knowledge of him and of these spiritual Things according to that Clear mine eyes that I may see the wonderful things which are in thy Law VII Blessed are the Peace-makers For Peace is the equality of Will which is perfected in Love and the Proprieties of Peace and its Faculties are Love Quietness Unanimity and Charity These are the contraries to Peace Scandal Commotion and the Properties of him who is in Commotion are distorted Eyes tuberous Lips gnashing Teeth a distended Neck a moving and shaking Head Hands beating the Air stamping Feet therefore he calls them Peace-makers who cause War and Seditions to cease Moreover Him who worketh quietness between the Soul and the Body for the Spirit loves whatsoever keeps down the Body Moreover Whomsoever worketh quietness between himself and others For they shall be called the Sons of God But how can man that is made of dust be the Son of God We say That by Grace this was bestowed on him as it was in the beginning Free-will our own Liberty and Immortality are by Grace and what is this Filiation That is to say That man was made of mortal corruptible and temporal immortal incorruptible and eternal and that which is more he was made a divine man for he who was worthy to be the Son of God possesseth the glory of his Father as bodily Sons do inherit the riches of their Fathers VIII Blessed are they who are persecuted for Righteousness i. e. The Martyrs and Confessors who are persecuted by the Devil or Tyrants and our Lord calleth Righteousness himself as hath been said before Moreover He calleth Righteousness all the victories of vertues those who are persecuted for vertue either for the care of our Brethren or for Truth 's sake Moreover This eighth Beatitude hath affinity with the number Eight and as the Head of all Beatitudes is placed in the summity of divine vertues This David sheweth in the eight Psalm and also Moses by the Circumcision the eighth day cutting off and circumcising the dead skin wherewith we were cloathed for Transgression of the Commandment and here the eighth Beatitude gaineth us a return to Heaven and a regress to our former Righteousness Again This number of eight is celebrated in Nature and in Books and among the Heathen Philosophers Moreover There are eight passions of the right hand and eight of the left those of the right are Simplicity of the Mind Mourning Humility Righteousness Mercy Pureness of Thought Peace and perfect Suffering Those of the left hand are Pride Fornication Vain glory Intemperance Covetousness Anger Envy Disdain There is a Cure set down for every one of the left-handed passions viz. one of those of the right hand and the Soul is rectified and the Body perfected of him who takes care thereof Pride which is the first Devil a man overcometh by Simplicity which is of mean nature And Fornication the second being of a Swinish nature by the passion of the heart and Mourning Vain glory a Thorn which pricketh on every side and is without Fruit by Humility which is the good ground and cultivated with all vertues Gulosity a burning fire and never satisfied by an appetite regulated by Justice and Vprightness The rich man an Oppressor of and hated by all men by clemency and mercy towards all men A turbulent passion of the mind and commotion of a confus'd person by sincerity of thoughts and cordial love Envy the Fountain of all Contention and Strife by Peace the reconciler of differences Disdain the Father of pusillanimity and neglect by patient suffering the mother and root of all good Things IX Blessed are ye when men deride you i. e. When men call you Sorcerers Criminal Erroneous and by other reviling Terms for scorns and reproaches sometimes are a greater punishment than blows and many times men strangle themselves for that they have been reproached or reviled for what reason is this Beatitude of Reproach set in the last place By reason of the asperity thereof for if a man have not attain'd the perfection of the former he cannot endure this for he needeth to be a fortified man who can bear a reproach according as Job who bore the reproaches of his friends and David those of Shimei And persecute you i. e. Because they were to convert the Gentiles from worshipping of Idols to Faith in the Father in the Son and in the Holy Ghost therefore persecutions arise against you And speak against you every evil word Not for your offences but by reason of me it being untrue what they shall say against you as Paul said Let none of you suffer as an evil doer but as a Christian Then rejoyce and be glad for your reward i. e. in Truth when the Apostles were reproached and reviled for Christ they greatly rejoyced and now a reward is given unto them and then the glory which is to be revealed in us and these words are taken to concern all those who suffer Tentation for Christ For so persecuted they the Prophets This passage doth not only regard the Apostles but also the Doctors That as the Prophets suffered for the Father so ye shall suffer for me And by this he sheweth his Majesty and the Equality of his Glory with the Father And inasmuch as he said The Prophets which were before them He shewed That even they also had Prophets Again Though in every of the Beatitudes the Kingdom is not promised be not dismayed for though the rewards in the Beatitudes be divers and different one from the other yet all and every of them will bring him who observeth any of them to the Kingdom of Heaven And after he taught them their Duty he applieth himself to the praysing of them that they might not be troubled and say How can we attain the fulfilling of the Commandments which is requisite for our entrance into Heaven DIONYSIUS HIS EXPOSITION ON THE PROPHESIE of ZACHARIAS Translated by D. L. BLessed be the Lord God of Israel That is to say He is worthy of all Acknowledgments of thankful Benediction because he hath shewed his care and providence for us Who hath visited his people That is to say By the eye of the Spirit he saw that the Blind were to be restored to sight and the rest of the Miracles which our Saviour wrought And wrought them Redemption That is to say from Satan Death and Sin And hath raised