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A50050	Annotations upon all the New Testament philologicall and theologicall wherein the emphasis and elegancie of the Greeke is observed, some imperfections in our translation are discovered, divers Jewish rites and customes tending to illustrate the text are mentioned, many antilogies and seeming contradictions reconciled, severall darke and obscure places opened, sundry passages vindicated from the false glosses of papists and hereticks / by Edward Leigh ...	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1650 (1650)	Wing L986; ESTC R20337	837,685	476

her even as she rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works God doth not command here that Babylon should be twice punished for the same sin that were not according to the rules of divine justice Double here hath reference to Babylons dealings with the Church Shee did greatly afflict Sion and now God would have Babylon to have double affliction to that Babylon did unjustly in oppressing Sion Sion should do righteously in destroying Babylon Vers. 8. She shall be utterly burnt with fire See 17.16 Harlots by the Law of God were to be burnt with fire Gen. 38.24 but Babylon 17.1 2 5. is a Harlot 2. By the law of retaliation she must be consumed with fire for she hath adjudged many of Gods Saints to the fire For strong is the Lord God who judgeth her Babylon must needs fall when God himselfe opposeth her Vers. 10. Alas alas that great City Babylon 1. Great in splendor and beauty as set upon seven hills for which she is famous in all the world 2. Great in power and authority the metrapolitane of all the earth then They have little cause to boast of their Temporall felicitie and greatnesse Vers. 11 12. The Merchants of the earth shall weep and mourne over her for no man buyeth her merchandise any more The merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones c. This cannot be understood literally there shall be merchandizing after Romes destruction but that kind of merchandizing Rome trades 1. In the things of God his doctrine worship 2. In the sins of men 3. The souls of men v. 13 Sets to sale the truths ordinances of God sins and soules of men It is well called nobile emporium rerum Spiritualium Vers. 14. And the fruits that thy soule lusted after are departed from thee The Greek word signifieth autumn fruit their second services suckets sweet meates and delicate confections Vers. 21. And a mighty Angell tooke up a stone like a great milstone and cast it into the Sea saying Thus with violence shall that great City Babylon be throwne downe The Angell expresseth it by this signe 1. To shew the difficultie of putting down Babylon 2. The violence of it 3. The irrecoverablenesse of it Vers. 22. And the voyce of harpers and musicians and of pipers and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee See Ier. 25.10 The Jews were wont to have musick at their feasts Isay 5.11.24 especially at marriages See Luke 15.25 v. 23. of this Chapter Vers. 23. For thy Merchants were the great men of the earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Princes of the earth for their great riches See 33. Deut. 19. Vers. 24. And in her That is Babylon now Rome Was found the bloud of Prophets Namely of the New Testament they were killed at Jerusalem Ribera They were not all killed within the precincts of the City of Rome but all which for Religions sake were put to death by her authority or instigation were delivered to death Romes cruelty will cause her ruine CHAP. XIX Vers. 1. IN heaven Not the Church but the innumerable company of glorified ones in heaven say some others interpret it of the Church and say praise is given to God in the Church in the Hebrew tongue because the Jews the Hebrew people shall acknowledge the Lord Jesus with us Vers. 2. For he hath judged the great whore That is Rome called whore as before because of her Apostatizing from the truths of God and her former covenant the great whore because of her universall poisoning of the earth Vers. 4. And the foure and twenty Elders That is the Church and the foure beasts That is the Ministers Vers. 8. For the fine linnen is the righteousnesse of Saints Righteousnesses Greek This say some signifieth a double righteousnesse given unto us 1. The righteousnesse of justification whereby we are justified before God 2. The righteousnesse of sanctification by which we evidence our justification to men Others say it is an hebraisme rather by the plurall righteousnesses noting the most absolute righteousnesse which we have in Christ so the Hebrew word is used Esay 45.24 Vers. 9. Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lambe By this marriage-supper is meant the great generall wedding feast in heaven after the resurrection where the King of glory and the Angels are where the Lambes wife v. 7 8. and all shall meete at which are all the creatures in their greatest glory See thou do it not The prohibition is much more emphaticall in the originall see not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is an ellipsis of the word doe or worship saith Alsted I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus This is the first reason against the worshipping of Angels We are equall in office Therefore thou owest not to mee religious but sociall worship The other reason followes worship God because to him alone religious worship is due as belonging to the first Table of the Decalogue CHAP. XX. Vers. 1. AND I saw an Angell come downe from heaven See the 12. ch 9. v. Our Lord Jesus Christ. Primasius Austen and others The Angell of the Covenant Mal. 3● Iohn 3.13 He descends from heaven by his incarnation Pareus He hath the key of the bottomlesse pit that is the power of hell and death which Christ ascribes to himselfe 18.18 and binds Satan which is proper to Christ. Pareus And a great chaine in his hand By which he bound the Devill the moderne Expositors interpret it the inevitable and binding power of the divine majesty a long and strong chaine to bind a most cruell enemy 12.13 Vers. 2. And bound him a thousand yeares That is he should not stirre up the lusts of men to make warre against the Saints of God See 8 9. verses What he was hindred from when he was bound he attempted to do when loose And shut him up and set a seale upon him That is upon the dore of the bottomlesse pit lest hee should breake out before his time Vers. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection and shall reigne with him a thousand yeares There are two common interpretations Some understand the first resurrection from the death of sin and a reigning in heaven a thousand yeares they interpret eternity and a further degree of glory for such as are called forth to suffer Secondly others understand it literally that then shall be a corporall resurrection of all the Martyrs to live with Christ a 1000. yeares First it cannot be a reigning with Christ in heaven because it is something peculiar to those that are beheaded a resurrection which followes that they rise from sin before they dye besides the 9. and 10. verses shew it cannot be meant of heaven Secondly it cannot bee understood of the corporall resurrection the dead in Christ rise first yet so

white horse hath a bow and goeth forth conquering in the Ministry that he may overcome either to conversion or confusion Rev. 19.11 The conquerers entred into Rome carried on a white horse The doubling of the word saith Pareus designes his present and future victory And a Crowne was given to him viz. Regall or rather triumphall Vers. 4. There went out another horse that was red This deciphers the Church now red with martyrdome under the ten great persecutions raised up by Domitian Trajane Nero Antonine Decius Dioclesian Maxentius Licinius and other cruell tyrants even untill the times of Constantine the great Vers. 5. Lo a black horse This notes the estate of the Church now blacke and in an afflicted condition by Hereticks which had mingled the truth of pure white doctrine with blacke darknesse of heresies and errours To this horse is attributed a ballance to designe exceeding great scarcity when according to the curse of the Law Levit. 26.26 men shall eate their bread by weight rather saith Pareus a scarcitie of the word Amos 8.11 Mr Mede would have the matter of this seale to bee not famine or dearth of victuall but the administration and severity of Justice through the Romane Empire The colour of the horse agrees saith hee to the severity of justice and the weights are a symbole of justice Vers. 7. Come and see That is come that thou maist see Vers. 8. And behold a pale horse Austen and Beda apply it to the martyring of Saints Bullenger and Forbes to plagues of death Pale The Greeke word properly signifieth Greene as the grosse sometimes it is that dead coulour of herbes that wax dry whence it is sometimes put for palenesse which is the hew of any withering and fading thing so Constance the Father of Constantine the Great was called Chlorus because of his palenesse as Zonarus saith in the life of Dioclesian And hell followed with him Hell the page of death attends him where ever he goes among the wicked sort therefore they are often coupled in this booke Death and Hell Some understand by it the grave when they are dead they goe to be buried so some interpret that article in the Creed hee descended into hell That is abode in the state of the dead but he speakes here say some of the wicked and judgements to them therefore it is meant of Hell Brightman would rather have the Grave to be here meant seeing many Saints saith hee dyed among the rest of whom it were wicked to thinke that they were devoured of the Hell of the damned And with death i.e. The Plague The LXX use this word Exod. 9.3.2 Sam. 24.13 It is called mortality by ecclesiasticall writers which now hath passed into many mother Tongues Vers. 9. I saw under the Altar the soules of them that were slaine for the word of God and for the testimony which they held That is under Christs protection and custody Haymo Aquinas Beza Pareus Under the shadow of his wings the phrase alluding to the Tabernacle which gave the offerings grace and acceptation Lying under the Altar That is saith Mr Mede upon the ground at the foote of the Altar like Sacrifices newly slaine Vers. 10. And they cryed with a loud voyce This is not to bee understood of the desire of blessed soules or of any proper act of theirs since it will not agree to their felicity but in the same manner that Abells bloud is said to cry because their death being alwayes fresh in Gods fight requires revenge from the divine justice the Saints in the meane time remaining secure That which the propheticall vision representeth is to be understood suitably to Christianity and to the kingdome of God attained by it Since therefore revenge is contrary to the principles of Christianity we cannot imagine that blessed soules desire it but the cry which they make must be understood to bee the provocation of God to vengeance which their sufferings produce So much more pertinently attributed to blessed soules in as much as being acquainted with Gods counsells they approve and rejoyce in his Justice and the advancement of his Church by the meanes of it Vers. 11. And white robes were given unto every one of them A cloathing of Princes in their great solemnities of coronation and triumphs sayes Eusebius they were wont so to dignifie servants at their manumissions with white apparell in token of their new liberty and preferment In the Primitive Church one of the Ceremonies of baptisme was this that the baptized person had a cleane white garment put upon him with these words Take this white garment and keepe it unspotted untill thou be presented before the Tribunall of Christ the Churches meaning was he should continue in that innocencie which he received in baptisme Fulgentes animas vestis quoque candida signat Vers. 12. And the Sun became blacke as sackcloth of haire and the Moone became as bloud This is a circumlocution of the eclipse of these lights wherein the Sun is wont to appeare blacke but the Moone reddish CHAP. VII Vers. 3. TIll wee have sealed the servants of our God in their forebads Amoris singularis curae symbolum sigillum Glossius Sealing was a signe of speciall care Vers. 4. An hundred and fourty and foure thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel The people of Israel was no Church long afore the Gentile Church is called Israel because they were graffed in instead of the Jewes that were broken off That a greater number of the Gentiles shall be saved than of the Jews is truly gathered out of this place But that the elect of the Jews are in a certaine number because their number is set downe and the other of the Gentiles is not is more than the Scripture doth warrant in the enumeration of the Tribes there is no respect had of order to shew that there is no regard had by God of carnall privileges in the matter of salvation This ought to be taken for an indefinite number as well as the 7000. which had not bowed the knee to Baal The holy Ghost is not contented to have named the totall ●um of them that were sealed in Israel but also divideth it into twelve times twelve thousand distributed by equall portions among the twelve Tribes every one of which is mentioned the one after the other with the expression of its particular number this sheweth that the number of the Elect and multitude of Beleevers are measured by certaine proportions which are known to him who is the Author Vers. 5. Judah is first reckoned of all Leahs children because our Lord sprang out of Judah Gen. 49.10 Heb. 7.14 and Nephthali of all those of Rachels side because Christ dwelt at Capernaum belonging to that tribe that Christs prerogative saith Mr Mede might still excell Vers. 7. He omits Dan and reckons up the tribe of Levi not because

in many resemblances and one egge is not liker another 1. Babell was the great City that must rule over all Nations Gen. 10.10 and Rome is the great City that must rule over all Cities and Churches 2. At Babell was the first confusion of Tongues Gen. 11.7 In and from Rome is the first confusion of Tongues and of errours one not understanding another in the Word or Sacraments or other their Services 3. At Babell was horrible superstition and wickednesse in Priests and People and thence it spread all abroad Rome is a sinke of superstition and filthinesse and all Nations have drunke of her Cup. 4. Babell held the Church in slavery seventy yeares so the Church of Christ hath been oppressed a long time under the tyranny of the Romish Church 5. Babell robbed and spoiled the Church of her Treasures and the Temple of God and horribly polluted it Rome hath robbed the Church of the Word Sacraments the Offices of Christ and most comfortable doctrine the chiefe dowrie and revenew that Christ her head gave her 6. Babell most miserably intreated the Church Psal. 137.1 so all is full of cruelty in the Romane Church Vers. 5. The mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth Because she infecteth all Nations that adhere unto her with her Idolatries and superstitions See ver 2. Vers. 6. And I saw the woman drunken with the bloud of the Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Jesus Papists say that bloud was not shed in Rome but in Jerusalem where the Lord was crucified Rev. 11.8 That place in the 11. ch is not meant of Hierusalem as Hierome saith but may well be understood of Rome Christ was crucified there either because the authority whereby he was crucified was from the Romane Empire or else because Christ in his members was and is there dayly crucified though locally in his own person he was crucified at Hierusalem Vers. 8. The beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomlesse pit For the darke and deepe schoole-learning or profoundnesse of Satan which it teacheth leaving the plaine and easie Doctrine of the Scriptures Vers. 9. The seven heads are seven mountaines on which the woman sitteth The mountaines are sufficiently known out of Poets and Histories Neither could any more famous marke be brought to describe Rome saith Grotius Septem urbs alta jugis toti quae praesidet orbi The City mounted on seven hills overruling the whole world The names of these hills are commonly known and usually named in Romane Authors viz. Palatinus Capitolinus Quirinalis Caelius Esquilinus Viminalis Aventinus Vers. 10. And there are seven Kings Claudius Nero Galba Otho Vitellius Vespatian Titus So Grotius Others interpret it of seven severall Regiments or Heads of Government to which the State of Rome was successively subject that is to Kings which also were seven Consuls Decemvirs Tribunes Dictators Emperours and Popes of these five ceased before Johns time the sixth which was of Emperours was now the seventh which was of Popes was not yet Vers. 11. The eighth head which is also one of the seven is the Empire renewed by the Pope and is said to be the Beast which was and is not though it be whereon the Whore of Babylon sitteth Vers. 12. With the beast or after the beast as others read it that is Antichrist Vers. 13. And shall give thei● power and strength unto the beast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their naturall power the power of armes and their civill power the power of authority Vers. 14. And the Lambe shall overcome them Not by destruction but conversion he will make use of them after to overthrow Antichrist Vers. 15. The waters which thou sawest where the whore sitteth are peoples and multitudes and nations That very universality which the Romans are wont so much to brag of Vers. 16. The ten Kings or Kingdomes of Europe some reckon up to be these England Scotland Germany France Spaine Denmarke Sweveland Poland Russia Hungarie that tooke part with Rome and shall pull her down They are compared to horns because they were the strength and defence of the Romane Empire and Papacy Vers. 17. And give their kingdome unto the Beast That is all the strength and warlike force and the authority and Laws Vers. 8. That great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth Rome was only that famous City called therefore Vrbs by an excellency and here with great Emphasis that great City Rome papall that monarchie was then the only monarchie in the world Terrarum Dea Gentiumque Roma Cui par est nihil nihil secundum By this title of great City thoughout the Apocalypse is meant Babylon or Rome as appeareeth by conference of these places Apoc. 14.8 and 16.19 and 18.10.16.18.19.21 but especially by this place here CHAP. XVIII Vers. 1. ANother angell One of the heavenly host and all other instruments acted by him Vers. 2. Babylon the great is fallen is fallen That is Rome and new Rome See 14.8 and 17.5 See 18. ver of this ch Babylon called for its sorcery the great 1. From the greatnesse of their glory 2. From the extent of their power and dominion Is fallen is fallen The Lord speakes of it in praeterito is fallen after the manner of the Hebrews who put praeteritum pro futuro when they would shew the certainty of a thing Ezek. 7.4.5 cum reduplicatione is fallen is fallen Such repetition used in Scripture for a double end to set forth 1. The perfection of a thing done Esay 26.3 Psal. 137.7 it notes an utter destruction 2. The affection of the speaker Psal. 22.1 2 Sam. 18.33 Three things are intended by this speech the certainty of the destruction of Babylon and its utter destruction and the joy and triumph of Gods people at it Vers. 3. For all nations have drunke of the wine of the wrath of her fornication Therefore shall Babylon fall because she hath corrupted Religion And the Kings of the earth have committed fornication with her She hath corrupted them and they are her last refuge 16.14 Magistracy is a stampe of Gods image therefore he is provoked to have it corrupted Vers. 4. Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Some interpret it of locall departing as Lot went out of Sodome and the Text favours that interpretation Come out in affection in action and in habitation both by spirituall and bodily departure Little Mice they say presaging the ruine of a house do flie out before hand Vers. 5. For her sins have reached unto heaven The words in the originall are her sins have followed that is her sins following one upon and after another knit together in a continued order have by this meanes grown to such a heape that they came up even unto heaven at length Vers. 6. Reward