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A36046	A clear and learned explication of the history of our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ taken out of above thrity Greek, Syriack, and other Oriental authors, by way of Catena: by Dionysius Syrus, who flourish'd most illustriously in the tenth and eleventh centuries. And faithfully translated by Dudley Loftus, doctor of the laws, Master in chancery, and judge of Their Majesties Court of Prerogative in Ireland.	Dionysius Exiguus, d. ca. 540.; Loftus, Dudley, 1619-1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing D1524; ESTC R221210	116,956	162

when one is become that which he was not before so was Abel a Herdsman and David a King and a Prophet and Aaron a Priest without changing humane Nature from what it was and thus we say The Word of God was made Man God being not changed in his Nature The Son of David the Son of Abraham he calls him not the Son of Joseph because he had not to do in his Generation neither doth he call him the Son of Mary although he was made Flesh by her it being not agreeable to the custom of Scripture to compute Genealogies from Women but he mentions David and Abraham because the beginning of his Generation of Chist is referred to them For he said unto Abraham In thy seed shall all the Natious of the Earth be blessed And unto David Thy Children shall sit upon the Throne for ever And to shew unto the Hebrews that he descended from David as the Prophets had foretold Moreover he calls him the Son of David thereby to raise the greater esteem of him he was a Nazarite because nursed in Nazareth according to what Philip said unto Nathaniel We have found Jesus of Nazareth The Promise was made unto Abraham because he was the first who was converted from Idolatry It was also made unto David forasmuch as he was the first King who kept the Commandments and for that he pleased God and brought up the Ark and was desirous to build a house unto the Lord. He sets David before Abraham by reason of his Kingdom his Majesty and the Renown of his Time for the Fame of his Deeds were celebrated in the mouth of all men and from him they expected that Christ should arise according to that Was it not from the seed of David and from Bethlehem that Christ was to spring And they called all good Kings which ruled over them by the Name of David as David my Servant shall rule them and I will set over them David my servant And it was with an oath said unto David The Lord swore unto David in truth and will not repent Of the fruit of thy Belly And I have sworn unto David my servant and A Rod shall sprout out of the Root of Jesse Again he placeth David before Abraham because the Promise made unto Abraham was That he should be Father of Nations but it was promised unto David That Christ the Redeemer should spring out of his Seed and it was meet that he from whose Seed Christ the Redeemer was to come should be preferred to him who was Chief of the Nations For the Redeemer is more to be esteemed than they who are Redeemed For this cause it is that he mentions Abraham after David because unto him was the Promise of calling the Gentiles The Son of Abraham that is to say He calls Christ the Son of Abraham according to the flesh but he neither calls him the Son of David nor of Abraham as of Marital Conjunction but according to Genealogy and Descent and he whom Mathew calls the Son of David Mark calls the Son of God and Luke the Power of the most High and John the Word of God but he was called God and the Word and the Power of the most High because he was so and he was named the Son of David and of Abraham for that he was made so and he was one and the very same and not different Persons Abraham begat Isaac he sets down this Genealogy to shew that Christ came as God formerly had promised to Abraham and to David and that he was the Messiah expected by the Jews and that they were inexcusable if they would not believe in him Isaac begat Jacob Jacob begat Jadah and his brethren He did not mention the Brethren of Isaac and Jacob because they had no Commerce with the Stock of Israel for they were Heathens and the Sons of Ishmael Arabians and Edomites and not by reason of their being wicked as others say for the Scripture mentioneth those who were more wicked than they He mentioneth the Brethren of Judah because that from his Lineage is derived the Genealogy of Christ who was of the Seed of David Judah begat Pharez and Zarah of Thamar He mentions Thamar who was of the Gentiles and was guilty of Fornication hereby we are instructed of the Mercy and Goodness of God who was not only made Man but was born from such-like Ancestors as these and by reason all men were brought under the yoke of Sin there was a necessity of his coming upon earth and if Judah sinned and David committed Adultery how much more was the transgression of others He by his coming absolved those who were under the reproach of guilt and his Gospel accepted of every Believer Adulterers Fornicators and as many of all sorts as were Penitents And it was for our Consolation that he made mention of Thamar that we should not be ashamed of our wicked Ancestors but be comforted by the Vertue Pulchritude and Ornaments of our own minds for a man is not scandaliz'd by evil Parents for if a Fornicatrix be converted into vertuous habits her former evil manners will be no reproach unto her How much less reproach is it to a man to have been the Son of a Fornicatrix or the Adultery or Sins of his Fore-fathers if his own Manners do not reproach him Moreover he mentioneth Thamar to reprove the Jews who boasted of Abraham and yet were destitute of a good Conversation as if he had said unto them Behold she who committed Fornication was the Mother of David Furthermore we say That Thamar did not sit there with a purpose of Fornication and it is manifest from what Judah said She hath been more righteous than I but that she might minister to the Generation of our Saviour Christ Gen. 32.26 who was concealed in Judah and this is known from hence that she did thus with him and no other man and thus she did after the death of his Wife that she might not seem to offend for the Law was not then written which prohibited the same Again she had the greater proclivity in her affections to Judah in regard of his want of Children for destitution of Children was reputed a disgrace to every man Moreover Thamar prefigured the Church and the Gentiles who committed Fornication with Idols and by the off-spring of Thamar were redeemed Thamar was of the off-spring of the Gentiles so also was the Church Thamar committed Fornication so likewise did the Church commit Fornication with Idols and as Thamar was mixed in the Genealogy of Christ so was the Church made a parcipitant of the Body and Blood of Christ Thamar is expounded the Church as calling Christ unto her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Come my Lord unto me inhabit with me Wherefore doth he mention Pharez and Zarah Zarah signifieth the East they appeared in the light of Gods Worship as Enoch Shem Japheth and Melchizedech and he sprouting out for a while and stretching forth the hand

called Rational Gentil and Chaldean his Divinity was revealed to Strangers and not to the Jews because the Testimony of Strangers is more credited then that of Domesticks and that the Gentiles might overcome the Fraud and Calumnie of the Jews least they should have said We know not when nor where he was born and that those of the Jews who did not believe in him might be without Excuse who not Receiving the Words of the Prophets the Wise-Men came and Preached before them and although the Sign of his Nativity was manifested to the Wise-Men yet by them it was published to all Creatures and as a Sign was given not only to Ezekia but so as all the Creation perceived the turning back of the Sun so by means of the Wise-Men all Nations perceived and as he fled into Egypt and by his going thither and return thence the Fame of his Nativity was Published to the Inhabitants so the matter was disclosed to the Wise-Men and because Persia and Egypt were most immersed in Heathenism of all others therefore in the beginning he healed them first for his Nativity was not revealed to the Edomites and Philistins who were Neighbours to the Jews but to those afar off that his Gospel might be enlarged and that to his Honour they might come from the remotest bounds He was Revealed to the Wise-Men rather than to others because he came to call Sinners the Wise-Men were more infected then all other Nations with Idolatry and they used Divinations and they were yoaked with the Gentiles and therefore he was first revealed unto them that he might first cure them and he was not revealed to all Wise-Men but to those whom he knew in his fore-knowledg that they would believe in him by their free-will and the Wise-Men who came were godly persons and this is a Testimony thereof that they were not afraid of Herod and the Jews and that they openly proclaimed him and for his sake sustained the hard Travel of all that way and were Preachers of him when they returned and were the first calling of the Gentiles for they saw in the Star a young Virgin sitting and bearing a Lad in her Arms and there was on his Head a Regal Crown wherefore they were drawn after him Others say That they saw these Letters written in the Star This is the Star of the King of the Jews who is born as the similitude of a Cross appeared unto Constantine in the Heaven and it was made known unto him that thereby he was to overcome Others say That they saw this Star shining with its Glorious Light from Heaven and there appeared together with the Star an Angel saying There is a King born in Judaea go unto him and from whence did the Wise-Men receive a Command to go unto Christ Some say from Balaam their Ancestor who Prophecied that a Star should arise from Jacob and said A King shall be born to the Jews and when he shall be born go and offer Gifts and they wrote down this matter and a long while after seeing the Star they took up Gifts and came Others that Daniel Prophecied to the Babylonians hence Seventy so and so A King shall be born to the Jews and when at his Birth a Star shall arise go and offer Gifts unto him and the King of the Babylonians Engraved this in Tables of Gold and when the Star arose and the Wise-Men saw it they came to his Worship Others That in the time of Daniel when Nebuchadnezar Reigned there came Men from Sheba to offer Gifts unto the King and to learn Astrology and Daniel faid unto them When Christ shall be born your Kings of Seba and Sheba shall offer Gifts unto him and they wrote it in a Bibliotheke that is in their Library and when ye see the Star go Others That Asdrushta the Southsayer foreshewed this and others say it was Baruch and because the Gift of Prophecy was not bestowed on him he was offended and departed to the Gentiles and taught twelve Tongues And it is written in a book of his that Zardushta sitting on a Fountain of Waters where was the King's Bath he said unto his Disciples That in later times an Hebrew Virgin shall bring forth in the Flesh and without Copulation a Son who is of the Nature of God and at his Nativity a Star shall appear go and offer unto him three Gifts Gold Myrrh and Frankincense and spake of his Passion and Resurrection They had therefore no Reward because they came not of their own Will but as ordained nor had Balaam any Reward for his Prophecy Secondly because he did not afterwards believe the Truth Others say That when Daniel's Family was carried Captive unto Babylon they did read this The Scepter shall not depart from Judah and the Prophecy of Balaam that a Star shall arise and this The Kings of Sheba c. which David said before the Sons of the Kings of Persia of Sheba and of Seba who were Neighbouring Princes and they ask'd the Hebrews concerning whom these things were said and Daniel and his fellows Answered Concerning Christ and that in the day of his Nativity a Star should arise which would shine as the Sun and they kept these things to themselves and when they returned to their places they committed this Mystery to writing and it was derived by Tradition until the birth of Christ The Lord John saith That God put it into their Hearts and made them take Gifts and to sollow the Star as he made Cyrus inciting to lead the Jews into Captivity And the Wise Men came from the East to Christ because Paradice was planted in the East and the Sun begins its Course from the East So also from the East begins the Sun of Righteousness and because they were to bring Gold and there was no Gold like that of this part of the World the Scripture saying that the Gold of this Land is good and the Prophets Prophecied that the Wise-Men should come from the Sun Rising to the Sun Setting and Malachy that from the East thereof and at his second coming he is to come from the East and at the time of our Lords coming the Persians Ruled from Nisibis to the East and from Nisibis to the West the Romans and God so ordered it that at that time there should be Peace between them that the Wise Men might not be hindered in coming Where is the King of the Jews born That is to say they do not enquire after a King Sitting upon a Throne as if his time were already but after him of whom Esaiah saith That there shall be a Root of Jesse which shall Rise as a Sign to the Gentiles and in him shall the Nations hope and he is the hope of all the ends of the Earth We seek him who is now born and not Herod and they said not where is the Son of God for Frankincense was a Figure of him because the Jews expected a King and a Redeemer therefore they

Nazareth and both declare the Truth but this of Luke was first for he abode forty days in Bethlehem from the time he was born and afterwards went to Jerusalem and offer'd Gifts and Simeon bore him and from Jerusalem he went to Nazareth and at the end of that Anniversary he came to Jerusalem and so returned to Nazareth and at the end of the second year he came from Nazareth to Jerusalem and from thence to Bethlehem and there the Wise-Men Worshipped him and from Bethlehem he went to Egypt as saith Mathew and Luke declares where he was born and what things were done at his Nativity and that he went up to Jerusalem when the days of her Purification were accomplish'd and when they had performed what the Law required they went unto Nazareth Mathew afterwards sets forth that the Wise-men came and found him in Bethlehem after he was Circumciz'd and had offered his Gifts and was two years old and then it was told Joseph that he should carry him by flight into Egypt and he remained three years in Egypt and suddenly returned to Nazareth and hence it is known that the Wife-men worshipped him when he was two years old for there was no Congruity with reason or conveniency that they should bring him up to the Temple whilest Herod breath'd forth destruction against the Children Which is called Nazareth The Jews question in what book these two passages are written viz. He shall be called a Nazarite and Out of Egypt have I called my Son To whom we say that these are not allegations of praise and exaltation but of humiliation for this word Nazareth they spoke of it as an house of Indecency out of Nazareth c. And the other is applyed to flight and had they not been True Mathew had not produced them because they were not of advantage Moreover many books perished as the book of Barjamin teacheth us for the Jews continually were drawn into the Errour of Idolatry and some of the Books they lost and some of them they tore as Jeremia declares and he who wrote the Book of the Kings faith that Deuteronomie was scarce found after a long time which was hidden and plundered For if when they were free from Warr they had so little care or regard for Books much less had they in the time of war And if they shall say if it was not written in the time of Christ whence doth Matthew produce it We answer that it was the daughter of a Voice And in the time of Mathew it was delivered and propagated from mouth to mouth and therefore Mathew wrote it or it was in the Books which were Lost or the Spirit which dwelt upon him in the Parlour Revealed it unto him or in his time it was preserv'd in Books and after Mathew wrote it perish'd in the destruction of the City by the Romans And if a Jew will indeavour to Falcify the Gospel because this allegation is not Extant he may be Reprehended from his own Books wherein are many Speeches written say'd to be in writing and are not written wherefore we may hold theirs in the like repute Moses speaks to Aaron concerning the death of his Sons I will be Sanctified by my near ones and I will be praised before all the People yet this is not found any where and it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord. A Flame in the Whirlwind in the Torrent of Aron Moreover To teach the Children of Israel the use of the Bow behold it is written in the Book of Jasher But neither did he reveal what is the Doctrine of the Bow It is said of Jeroboam the Son of Jehu I will turn the Border from the going in of Hamath to the Book of the Sallows as said the Lord by his Servant Jonas the Son of Mathi the Prophet in Gad-Hether and this is not written any where no not in Jonas And Thou hast said the World shall be Built in Grace and also in Esaia This Word the Lord spake concerning Moab and it is unknown where these two passages are written therefore let the Jew take our Excuse from his own Moreover The Gospel according to Custom and with regard to the accomplishment of things produceth an Allegation for Isaiah saith There shall come forth a Rod from the Root of Jess and a Bough shall sprout forth And in the Hebrew a Branch or Bough is expounded a Branch and Nazaren one who sprouts out and when Mathew saw that Christ came and dwelt in Nazareth he expounded this of Esaiah A Branch shall sprout out He shall be called a Nazaren and he was called a Nazaren from Nazareth that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one sprouting out from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Sprout so they are expounded in the Hebrew Tongue Others say that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is expounded New and that Nazareth signifieth New and signifies Typically that the Son would newly be made Man for Men Others say That Nazareth signifies Justice and Nazaren signifies Just and if they shall say that because he was born in Bethlehem and not in Nazareth Esaiah calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let them know that the Apostles called him as did the Prophets and that this of Bethlehem was not hid as to the Prophecy but chiefly intended according to that of Nathaniel who from this was moved to make Enquiry and said From Nazareth c. For Nazareth was a contemptible place as was Galilee and our Lord was not ashamed to be called from thence After he had discoursed concerning Christ's Nativity c. at last he came to the beginning of the Gospel which is the Baptism of Christ And so he Continueth his Discourse on towards his Passion MATH III. ANd in those days came John the Baptish He doth not understand by those days the time when Jesus returned from Egypt to Nazareth for in those days Jesus was five years old but the time of his abode in Nazareth being Twenty five Years he was Thirty Years of Age when he came to Baptism as saith Luke Others are of opinion that he calls those days the time when he came to be baptized for it is the custom of Scripture to term by the Name of those days the days wherein any matter what-e'er it be is acted or done Others think that he calls those days the time wherein the Jews had neither King nor Prophet forasmuch as the Prophecy of Jacob was fulfilled The Scepter shall not depart c. but Tiberius then Reigned as Luke saith Others say thus In those days that is our Lord did not immediately after his teturn from Egypt come to John but when he was Thirty Years of Age being Two years old when he went down into Egypt where he remained Three years and afterwards dwelt in Nazareth Twenty five Years and in these years he paid the debt of our Nature and fulfilled the Law and abrogated it and it is the Custom of