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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

absolved of its holiness And St. Philoxenus saith That he did not at all partake thereof forasmuch as Satan had entred into him wherefore we do not communicate unto those who are possessed And David Caenobita the son of Paul saith That he did partake thereof not being unholied but he for want of faith did eat it as meer bread When they had sung In some of the Syriack copies it is in the singular number without the letter vau as if Jesus onely had sung but it ought to be in the plural number with the said letter and to refer to the Disciples as it is in all Greek Copies This night before the Cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice Mark saith Before the Cock crow twice thou shalt deny me thrice Both agree in the same sense but Mark declares this That the Cock at one time or uno impetu did double its voice Twelve Legions A Legion is Ten thousand I am able to destroy the Temple of God and to build it up in three dayes He did not say so but destroy this Temple to wit Ye wherefore those Witnesses were reputed false Witnesses CHAP. XXVII AND he went and hanged himself Luke in the Acts doth not say That he hanged himself but that he burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out and it might have been that after he was hanged he burst asunder A famous prisoner called Baraba His name was Jesus and that no errour might arise from the Identity of name he was named from his Father Scourged Jesus with whips Cords that were pleated for it was the custom of the Romans to scourge him first whom they would crucifie They plated a Crown of Boughs That is to say of Thorn having white blossoms They came to a place which was called Golgotha They say That Shem the son of Noah did there bury the head of Adam and this was the Court of Aran the Jebusite And they gave him to drink vineger In some of the Greek copies it is written Wine The cause of his death in writing In the Greek it is His accusation which was written Luke and John say That they wrote in three Languages in Hebrew Latin and Greek The reason was that these three Nations were then celebrated in Jerusalem more than the Syrians and the Arabians and the rest which much less esteemed them And they crucified with him two Thieves He who was on his right hand had the name of Titus and he on the left hand was named Domcus for so it is to be found in the Book of St. Aretus the Disciple of Paul Also the Thieves who were crucified with him reviled him It is probable that both of them did at first blaspheme but afterwards he on the right hand when he saw the darkness which hapned took it into consideration and confessed and the other though he saw what hapned did not consider it And there was darkness over the whole earth This darkness was not only upon the Land of Jerusalem but it was also observed to extend unto Athens as Dionysius the Areopagite declares in his Discourse against Apoloponis the Sophister and this was an Eclipse of the Sun not by the Moon as are all natural Eclipses thereof but it was contrary to custom by the body of some thick cloud or some other thing which by Gods Providence arose in the face of the Sun and darkned it and it is demonst able from hence That it was not in the Newness of the Moon but about the full Moon to wit on the 14th day thereof Vntil the ninth hour Matthew and Luke do not set forth at what hour our Lord was crucified but Mark saith it was the Third hour when they crucified him And John saith it was about the Sixth hour when Pilate sate upon the Tribunal and said unto the Jewes Shall I Crucifie your King And some desirous to shew the Truth of both sayings say That Pilate sate in Judgment upon our Lord from the Third hour to the Sixth and at the Sixth hour delivered him up to be crucified as St. John saith But Mark forasmuch as from the Third hour wherein they began to judge him they were resolved in their minds to crucifie him he said That they crucified him the Third hour And we say That this might have been probable if before the compelling of Simon of Cyrene and the coming to Golgotha and the drinking of imbittered Wine and the dividing of his garments Mark had said this That it was about the Third hour when they crucified him But behold it was not so Others say That this in St. John is an errour not of the Evangelist God forbid but of the first Scribe who instead of Three which he would have written wrote Six But without undervaluing the insufficiency of these two Answers I say That Mark reckoned from the hours which were from the beginning of the day until the hour wherein our Lord was crucified and they were three but John computeth the hour from the time when the Jewish Sergeants apprehended our Lord and bound him at night before the Cock crowed until the hour wherein they crucified him and it was the sixth hour three of the night of the preparation and three of the day And many bodies of the Saints He calls those Saints who believed in our Lord and departed this life a few dayes before And after his Resurrection they came into the holy City That is to say Jerusalem It hath been said That they remained therein onely Three dayes preaching and afterwards returned to their Sepulchres Neither did they appear unto all men but to their Kindred onely and some say That he doth not here call this earthly Jerusalem the holy City but the heavenly one One of them was Mary Magdalen Eusebius faith That there were two Magdalens and each of them was called Mary The one of them was this which Matthew speaks of and it is likely she was the daughter of Simon the Leper and sister of Lazarus The other was she out of whom he cast seven Devils whereof Luke speaks And they rolled a great stone and cast it to In all the Syriack copies these verbs are written in the plural number but in the Greek the singular number is used and that is congruous for this story concerns Joseph of Arimathea onely wherefore it is said He took it and rolled it and put it to CHAP. XXVIII AND for fear of him i.e. because he was an Angel For I know that ye seek Jesus who was crucified The Greek hath it The Nazarite who was crucified And take notice That in three Greek copies and in one Syriack the name Nazarite is not found All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth The word given he takes for revealed to wit my power which was hidden henceforward is revealed Amen That is in Truth MARK CHAP. I. The Beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ THat Baptism was the Beginning of the Gospel according to the order

set down by St. Mark is evident from this That before our Lord was Baptized he neither Preached nor Evangelized but after that he was Baptized and Tempted he began to say Repent the Kingdom of heaven is at hand And St. Basil saith That this Mark first used the word Evangelium and this is clear from hence That the other Three Evangelists made no mention thereof A voyce crying in the wilderness John is called a voyce because he made known Christ the Word for by the voyce is made known the Word that is hidden in the mind Confessing their sins Hence it is manifest That confession is necessary for the Faithful And straightway he came up out of the water That is to say our Lord. He saw To wit John the Baptist And straightway the Spirit took him out To wit the holy Spirit What have we to do with thee This one speaks as from the mouth of them all CHAP. II. THE son of Halphaeus All the Doctors agree That this Levi was Matthew the Publican who was an Evangelist and that Jesus sat down in his House and Mark here calls him the son of Halphaeus and that this was not the brother of James the son of Halphaeus is demonstrable from this That Matthew was of the Tribe of Issachar and this James was of the Tribe of Menasse When Abiathar was High Priest In the Book of Samuel it is written That David desired the holy bread from Achimelech the Father of Abiathar and it is possible that he desired it from Achimelech and that Abiathar his son gave it CHAP. III. SOns of Thunder Because the sons of Zebedee did preach with a high voyce he calls them by this name And his Kindred heard That is to say the children of Joseph CHAP. IV. THat under the shadow thereof the Fowl may dwell That is to say the Gentiles without the Law may rest under the shade of the Gospel And they left the multitudes In some Copies it is read He left but that reading is not to be approved but we ought to follow the Greek Copies to wit That he and his Disciples left them or dismissed them And there was a great tempest The Syriack word signifieth a boysterous wind which bloweth on the face of the earth and raiseth up dust and sand it is of an Hebrew derivation and is expounded the ascent of God CHAP. V. LEGION That is to say Ten Thousand CHAP. VI. BEhold the Carpenter the son of Mary It is likely that Joseph was dead and therefore he did not mention him with his mother and brethren Except a Rod. The word except beareth the sense of neither in this place and it is clear from this That Matthew saith neither a Rod. It is not lawful for thee to take the wife of thy brother Because she had by fraud caused him to be put to death and had it not been for this it had not been unlawful for him to take her to Wife according to the Law of Moses CHAP. X. TImaeus the son of Timaeus In two Greek copies it is a blind man the son of a blind man And to say Son of David In two Greek copies we find it Son of the Son of David have mercy upon me CHAP. XIII AND not the Son but the Father Matthew hath not the wo●ds and not the Son And our Lord said this w●th reservat●on and not that he was ignorant of the thing for he who knew the Father who was concealed and ●ncomprehensible saying No man knows the Father but ●he Son H●w could he but know the time of the end of the World He said thus for this reason to wit That if he had said I know and will not tell they had been offended and it he had said he knew and had declared it unto them others would have known it fr●m them and have communicated it to all other generations and so by reason of the remoteness of time they would have grown negligent and careless Hence it is known That it is more advantagious to the sons of men to be ignorant of a matter of this kind than to have knowledge thereof CHAP. XIV AND he took the Chalice and gave thanks and blessed and gave unto them In the Greek it is not said That he blessed any mo●e than the body onely And a certain young man followed him and was naked onely covered with a linen cloth That this was a stranger is known from hence that his Disciples were modest and ashamed to accompany him with a linen cloth only Wine mixed with myrrhe That he might be the more intoxicated and not be sensible of the agony of death And Mary the mother of James the less That is to say the brother of our Lord and that he might be distinguished from James the brother of Zebedee he calls him the less and this Mary was not the mother of our Lord but the wife of Joseph to wit the mother of his children And of Jose and Shalom These also were the natural sons of Joseph and were called the brethren of our Lord in name only and not by consociation of blood CHAP. XVI AFter this he was seen of two of them Luke the Evangelist speaks clearly of one of them that he was Cleophas but as concerning the other there are different opinions Some say it was the wife of Cleophas Others say That it was Luke himself and that he might not seek glory he did not mention his name And confirmed their words with the signs which they wrought St. Severus saith in the Seventy seventh discourse of his Epithronion That in approved Greek copies the Gospel of Mark ends with these words For they were afraid LUKE CHAP. I. FOrasmuch as many That is to say The Sect of Simon the Sorcerer and those of the Circumcision for it is said That there were Eighty four Gospels according to the number of Apostles and Disciples and after the Apostles departed this life their Disciples chose two of those of the Apostles to wit those of Matthew and John and two of those of the Disciples to wit Mark and Luke and that they destroyed the rest According to what they have delivered That is to say The Apostles To us That is to say To me and to Mark. Of the Word That is to say of Preaching to wit Evangelical denuntiation and the doctrine of our Lord in the World and that this voyce the Word is applicable to those Three senses is apparent from the words of Gregorius Theologus Theophilus This man was a Believer and one of the Rulers of Alexandria Nor Seicera strong drink That is to say a certain kind of drink which was made of Honey and of Dates c. From the Birth of Jesus to his Baptism were Thirty years and from his Baptism to his Ascension were Two years and Six months He shall be great That is to say His greatness shall be revealed to Angels and to Men. And the power of him on high shall come upon thee All the