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A68840	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.; In librum Judicum commentarii doctissimi. English	Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562.	1564 (1564)	STC 24670; ESTC S117825	923,082	602

Mizpa Then the children of Israell sayde Howe is this wickednes committed 4 And the man the Leuite the womans husband that was slayne aunswered and sayde I came vnto Gibea whiche is in Beniamin with my concubine to lodge 5 And the men of Gibea arose agaynst me and beset the house roūd aboute vpon me by nyght thynking to haue slayne mee And haue forced my concubine that she is dead 6 Then I tooke my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her thorough out all the countrey of the inheritance of Israel For they haue committed abhomination and vilany in Israel 7 Beholde all ye children of Israell geue your aduise and Counsell herein The congregation of the Israelites was assembled together to iudge of the crime This Hebrew word Edah signifieth a Church or an assembly The end of assemblyes or meatynges together beyng deriued of this verbe Adah whiche is to testify bycause that it is the vse and ende of such assemblyes that the godly should faythfully testify before God of those thynges whiche are put forth to be consulted of From Dan euen vnto Beerseba Dan Beerseba In this kinde of Paraphrasis is comprehended the whole people of Israel For these ar the endes of that kyngdome Dan is the ende towarde the North wherby the Iewes are neyghbours vnto the Zidonians and Beerseba toward the South Euen vnto Gilead That land is beyond Iordane The borders of the region of the Hebrues where the two tribes Ruben and Gad together with halfe the tribe of Manasses dwelled Thys was the third end toward the East And ouer agaynst that toward the West lay the sea called mare Mediterraneum Within these termes and lymites was conteyned the region of the Hebrues whiche they possessed in the land of Chanaan They came into Mizpa vnto the LORDE Where Mizpa was Mizpa was a place moste apte to haue assemblyes in it was not farre frome Ierusalem in the Tribe of Iudah In the fyrste booke of the Machabites the thyrde Chapiter it is thus written When the people by reason of the tyranny of the Macedonians fled out of Ierusalem they assembled together in Mizpa vnto Iudas Machabeus And it is added that that place was a house of prayer of aūcient tyme laye situate ouer agaynst the City of Ierusalem And in this booke we haue before heard how that when Iiphtah should be ordeyned Iudge ouer the people the people assembled together in Mizpa In Samuels tyme also the people assembled together twise vnto that place once when they should leade an army agaynst the Philistines an other tyme when Saul should be created kyng Farther when all the Citye was ouerthrowen by Nebuchad-Nezar all the people fled to Godolia in Mizpa Moreouer besides the oportunity of the place was added a notable benefite of God bycause as we rede in the .10 chapter of Iosuah there assembled thether agaynst the people of Israel a very great nūber of kynges for there were not fiue or sixe but very many kinges which were neyghbours entending vtterly to destroye the name of the Iewes Yet God commaunded them to be of a good valiaunt courage bycause he would geue vnto his people the victory ouer them all And when that thyng happened contrary to all mans hope the Hebrues for a monument of so great a benefite built in that place an alter vnto God Wherfore it is probable as the Rabbines affirme that in Mizpa began to bee a house of prayer For the people went not to the tabernacle or to Ierusalem so often as they had occasion to pray Euery Citye had Synagoges but had in Cityes and Villages certayne Synagoges wherein they prayed together vnto GOD. But to doo Sacrifices it was not after that manner lawfull but onely at the tabernacle of Moses or at Ierusalem after Salomon had builte the Temple althoughe hyghe places were sometymes vsed Wherfore the people assembled thether as well for the opportunity of the place as also by reason of the auncient Religion neither thought they it lawefull to begyn any thyng without prayers Whiche institution for that the Papistes woulde somewhat resemble they firste prouide to haue a Masse of the holy Ghost songe before they make any leagues or rather conspiracyes agaynste Christe It is sayde that they assembled together vnto the Lorde to praye together vnto the Lorde D. Kimhi Although Dauid Kimhi thinketh that this was added bycause wheresoeuer is a multitude of the godly there is GOD also present And to confirme that sentence he bringeth a place put of the Psalme GOD stoode in the Synagoge of Goddes For Iudges whiche in thys place are called Goddes when they geue iudgement ought not to thinke that they haue theyr owne cause in hande but Goddes cause as Iosaphat the godly kynge shewed them I doo not dissallowe this sentence for it is both godly and also it maketh menne to vnderstande that when assemblyes are godly had then doo menne assemble vnto GOD whiche thyng if menne in these dayes woulde consider greate menne woulde handle publique causes with more feare of GOD. Howbeit thys is for certayne that the Israelites assembled not in Silo as some thinke And the corners of all the people assembled The Hebrewe woorde is Penoth whiche properly signifyeth corners but in this place it is taken for Capitaines heades ouer ten Cēturious Tribunes and gouernors of warlike affayres For they after a sort are corners strengthes and stayes of an army Wherfore the villages of the Holuetians in the Italian toungue are called Cantones Wherfore the Hebrues come and assemble in Mizpa not rashly but in their orders They had not in deede a kyng or myghty Magistrates or Senadrim as it is thought for they wer sore decayed and weakened by the Philistines Yet they retayned among themselues some order and discipline Fower hundreth thousande footemen When they went out of Epypte they were 666000. The nomber of the Israelites diminishe men It seemeth that the number was nowe diminished And no meruayle bycause they had ben afflicted with many greuous calamities Also the tribe of Beniamin was away which peraduenture had thirty thousande soldiours For that tribe was both ample and also mighty And the chyldren of Beniamin heard The Beniamites would not be present they onely heard what should be done Dauid Kimhi Kimhi admonisheth that these woordes are put in by a parenthesis for there is no cause shewed why they woulde not be among them And the children of Israel sayd Tel how this wycked act was committed Kimhi thinketh that these things are to be red in the vocatiue case as though it should haue bene sayd O ye children of Israel declare the whole matter in order as it was done in the meane time it seemeth that the Beniamites are noted bycause they would not come vnto the assembly neyther take awaye euill from among them The people assembled together to vnderstand the cause that for as much as ther was

to the Ephesians the .v. chap. saith Speake vnto your selues in Psalmes Tertulian Himnes and spiritual songes singing and making mery in your hartes And the same thing writeth he vnto the Colossians the third chap. Tertulian in Apologetico sayth that Christians vsed to assemble together to their moderate shorte suppers and when they wer refreshed with meate they sang deuine praises or recited somthing out of the holye scriptures prouoking one an other by them And by this meanes they returned sober home Other honest pleasures besides playes There are also problemes wherwith the wits may be exercised and refreshed which problemes if they seme to hard there are histories which may wyth lesser labour be learned Why are not men hyred to reade them vnto them There is no history so sclender which is not very much profitable for some part of mans life There are also histories of plants of herbes and of stones There are lykewise communications of godlye men one with an other which are sweete and pleasant wherewith mindes are refreshed and therewithal edefied I do not as I haue said vtterly take away playes but I prefer these thinges as much more honest and profitable But now let vs returne vnto the play of Samson whych though it was honest and liberal yet had it a deadly ende And if this playe had such yl successe what is to be hoped of those which are prohibited by the lawes They which made those lawes wer wise men in gouerning the publike welth who seing their faith in other thinges is to be allowed why is it not also to be allowed in thys thing And the young men could not interpreate The feast indured seauen dayes and when Samson had put foorth his riddle the first day they coulde doo nothing in three dayes wherefore when wyt failed them they turned themselues to craftines and euyll artes 15 And when the seuenth day drew neare they sayde vnto Samsons wife Entise thine husband that he may declare vs the riddle least we burne thee and thy fathers house with fire Hast thou called vs that he should possesse vs Is it not so 16 And Samsons wife wept before hym and sayd Surelye thou hatest me and louest me not for thou hast put foorth a ryddle vnto the chyldren of my people and hast not tolde it me And he sayd vnto her Beholde I haue not tolde it my father nor my mother and shall I tell it thee 17 Then Samsons wyfe wepte before hym seauen dayes whyle theyr feast lasted and when the seuenth daye came he tolde her bycause she was importunate vpon hym And shee tolde the ryddle to the chyldren of her people 18 And the men of the City sayd vnto him the seuenth daye before the Sunne went downe What is sweter then hoony and what is stronger then a Lyon Then he sayd vnto them if ye had not plowed with my Heifer ye had not found out my ryddle 19 And the spirite of the Lord came vpon hym and he went down to Ascalon And he smote of them .xxx. men and taking away theyr vpper garmentes gaue chaunge of garmentes vnto those whyche expounded the ryddle And hys wrath was kindled and he went vp to hys fathers house 20 Then Samsons wyfe was geuen to hys companion whom he had associated vnto hymselfe The young men come vnto Samsons wife desire her to intreate her husband and by al meanes to enquire of him what his proposicion signified They adde moreouer threatninges and those horrible namely that otherwise they would burne her and her fathers house This is the nature of peruers men when they can not ouercome by strength and industry they flee to deceites This maye be sene in these young men rather then they would suffer them selues to be conquered or ouercome they go about fraude and snares But chiefly they go vnto hys wife that both bicause she was a woman which might easelye be wonne bicause she was deare welbeloued of her husband they myght vse her labour to wrest and wring out the secrete of her husbande They make her therefore the betrayer and that which is most grieuous of her own husband This is often times the ende of playes The thing for which they contended was of no great value For euery one of them were in daunger onely of the losse of one garment and sheete a peece yet they say Hast thou called vs that he should possesse vs As though they should lose al that euer they had These thinges rightlye agree with those which do play to that end to depriue other men of their goods They which haue lost may after this maner complain of the winner Thou hast with this pretence prouoked me to plai to rob me not to take any pleasure by play The woman in the meane time as Ambrose saith wept and complained vnto her husband Ambrose that he loued her not neither esteemed her Thou hatest me sayth she for as much as thou wylt not declare vnto me thy secretes But Samson aunswereth wisely Yea but I haue not shewed it vnto my parētes and thinkest thou that I loue them not What cause is there that thou shouldest complaine There are in deede many good and faithful women but Samson had not yet had anye trial of his wife It is not expedient alwayes to cōmunicate secrete coūsels vnto wyues Plutarch And seing ther are many euil and babling women which blab out thinges of great importance to their husbandes great dammage therefore wise men commit not many thinges to their wiues secrete keeping for ther are many thinges that are not expedient for them to know And babling is a vyce in a maner proper vnto women Plutarche telleth of this thing an elegant hystory of Papirius Pretextatus which nowe is sufficient onelye to shewe Many though they be strong in body and excel in strength yet are they weake in hart Samson had ouercome a Lyon but yet at the last hee coulde not ouercome the teares of hys wyfe As long as his wife shewed her selfe sad and heauye vnto him Samson could not beare it The holye ghost woulde haue these thinges set foorth in the holy scriptures whereby we might see the nature and corrupcion of our fleshe The seauenth day before the sunne went downe The end of the daye is the sun set Ambrose All they of the East did measure the ende of the day by the going downe of the sunne which by thys place we may gather and by many other They expounded the ryddle after this maner VVhat is sweeter then hoony what is stronger then a Lyon Ambrose sayth that Samson when hee heard these thinges strayghtwaye added what is more vnfaythfull then a woman This assuredlye which is added in the text is not much vnlike Except ye had plowed wyth my Heyfer To plowe is to dyg to turne and to searche the earth So they searched out the mayden that by her they might come to the counsell of her husbande This

reason of sundry calamities and plagues wherewith the Philistians afflicted the people of their greuous synnes the Israelites had nowe no lawfull Magistrates wherby came to passe that many wycked actes were cōmitted the woorshipping of God violated and ciuill warres arose which must nedes happen where synnes remayne vnpunished And that whych mought haue bene restrayned by the punishment of one or twoo brought the destruction of manye thousandes both of the Israelites and also of the Beniamites We shal see in this hystory whych the holye ghost referreth to the ende of thys booke fyrste a moste haynous wycked acte of the Beniamites Secondlye vengeaunce taken of that Tribe by the other Tribes wherby the Beniamites were in a maner cleane destroyed And lastly we shal heare the wonderful instauracion of that Tribe The occasion of this warre was thus A certaine man being a Leuite had a wyfe who committed adultery and fearing the sharpenes of her housband fled to her Parentes Not long tyme after her husbande went to seeke her fyndeth her and is reconciled vnto her The woman as shee returned home together wyth her husband was with most fylthy whoredome defiled of the Gabaonites whereby she miserably perished so suffred punishment for her fyrst aduoutry For God punisheth synnes by synnes Neither suffered he adultry being not punished by the Magistrates to go vnpunished As touching the historye it is no marueilous or straunge thing that the Leuite dwelt as a straunger For althoughe that Tribe had certaine Cities and suburbes appointed it yet very many of the Leuites went to the townes and villages of the other Tribes to serue them as touching doctrine counsels wherof I haue a litle before somwhat spoken This man dwelt as a straunger on the syde of mount Ephraim The Hebrewe woord signifieth a side a hyp or thigh And by translacion it signifieth a region or coast And this is a very elegant Metaphore when there is mencion made of a mountaine He dwelled therfore on the side of mount Ephraim He tooke a wyfe a Concubine By this place is manifestlye gathered that the Concubines of the Fathers were wiues For the Iewes were not bound to the lawes of the Romanes when as both at this tyme they were not made and also they pertayned not to that nacion Whych I therefore speake bycause the Romanes had Concubines which were not wiues But the Hebrewes sometimes called their wyues Concubines bycause they were not of the same honour and dignity that their wyues were which had authority in the house Yea the Maister sometimes maryed his handmayden as Abraham maryed Agar Iacob Bilham and Zilpa Peraduenture in contracting of those matrimonies there wanted tables or some outward ceremonies wherwith they vsed to adorne the principal matrimonies Neither yet was that a let but that these were matrimonies Of this thing I haue spoken largely before Wherefore I will at thys tyme cease to go any farther therein But in that the Leuite had a wyfe whiche was of the tribe of Iuda it is not to be marueiled at bicause vnles maydens were inheritours they mought mary in other tribes which thing was not permitted to those that had inheritāce to the ende that possessions should not be confounded Farther forasmuche as the tribes of Iuda and Leui excelled the other in dignitye they were the easelyer coopled together in matrimony For the principality seemed wel to agree wyth the Priesthood It is called Bethlehem of Iuda to put a difference from the other Bethlehem as we haue before declared She committed aduoutry by hym We might also say against him For ther is great iniury done vnto the man when the wife playeth the whoore And this preposicion All signifeth either But the plainer sense is by him As thoughe it should haue bene said that she committed aduoutry when she was yet together with her husband and had not departed from him She fled to her father Being so afearde of her husbande that shee durst not come in his sight she got her to her fathers house Adultery is committed which is a grieuous crime and yet is not punished by the punishment of the lawe for that there was no Magistrate to execute iudgementes And thoughe in all persons aduoutry is a grieuous wicked act The wyfe of a Minister if she be an adultres synneth more grieuously then other yet in the wyfe of a Leuite or Priest it is farre more grieuous for as muche as the holye ministerye ought to bee well spoken of Wherefore if the daughter of a Priest had played the harlot in her Fathers house she was not stoned as other were but burnt with fyre as it is expressedly wrytten in Deuteromy But why this adultresse was not slaine the cause as it is before sayde was for that there was no Magistrate in Israel And this adulteresse might think to herself that she had escaped punishmēt This adulterous woman escaped not the punishmente of God as touchinge men but she could not escape the hand of God For god shall iudge adulterers and whoremōgers as the Epistle to the Hebrewes teacheth which thing he doth sometimes by magistrates and sometimes when they cease by himself The woman was with her parents .4 monthes in which space of time her husband being either moued with mercy or wearied with solitarines went to seke hys wyfe and to speake to her harte Two manner of wayes of punishinge the guilty By this Hebrewe phrase is signified that he would comfort her being in misery and afflicted or geue her some profitable counsell peraduenture that she should repent her of the sinne which she had cōmitted promising her that if she would do so he woulde receaue her into fauor agayne He ioined a coople of Asses That he might haue one to cary his wife and the other to lade with thinges necessary for his iorney The wife as sone as she saw him brought him into her fathers house By whiche acte shee declareth that shee was not vtterlye alienated from her husbande The father of the maiden that is his father in lawe mette him and ioyfully embrased him Whereby we gather that the old man also wished a reconcilement betwene them He abode there three dayes He abode there in verye dede fiue dayes but thre dayes willingly the other two dayes he was in a manner compelled by his father in law And they did eate and drinke These thinges declare that they were reconciled and that the matrimony was renewed betwene them But when he would haue departed the father in law sayd Thou shalt strengthen thy hart with a morsell of breade And by this woorde breade he vnderstode all kinde of meate The old man would not so sone let thē go bicause he desired to haue fauor and loue confirmed betwene them to th end they should not afterward be easly seperated the one from the other This was his purpose Behold the day is weakened He vseth a Metaphore and signifieth the passage of the Sunne to the west