St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.

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Title: St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
Author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Publication: London :: Printed by George Eld,; 1610.
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The appointment of God concerning the two twins in Rebeccas womb. CHAP. 33.

NOw let vs see the proceedings of the Citty of God after Abrahams death. So then from Isaacs birth to the sixtith yere of his age (wherin he had children) there is this one thing to be noted, that when as he had prayed for her frutefulnes (who was barren) and that God had heard him, and opened her wombe, and shee conceiued, the two twins (a) played in her wombe: where-with she being trou, bled, asked the Lords pleasure, and was answered thus: Two nations are in thy wombe, and two manner of people shalbe diuided out of thy bowells, and the one * 1.1 shall bee mightier then the other, and the elder shall serue the younger. Wherin Peter the Apostle vnderstandeth the great mistery of grace: in that ere they were borne, and either done euill or good, the one was elected and the o∣ther reiected: and doubtlesse as concerning originall sin, both were alike, and guilty, and as concerning actuall, both a like and cleare. But myne intent in this

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worke, curbeth mee from further discourse of this point: wee haue handled it in other volumes. But that saying; The elder shall serue the yonger: all men inter∣pret of the Iewes seruing the Christians, and though it seeme fulfilled in (b) Idumaea, which came of the elder, Esau or Edom, (for hee had two names) because it was afterward subdued by the Israelites that came of the yonger, yet not-with∣standing that prophecy must needs haue a greater intent then so: and what is that but to be fulfilled in the Iewes and the Christians?

L. VIVES.

THe two twinnes (a) played] So say the seauentie, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or kicked. Hierome saith mooued; mouebantur. Aquila saith, were crushed: confringebantur. And Symmachus compareth their motion to an emptie ship at sea: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. (b) Idumaea] Stephanus deriueth their nation from Idumaas, Semiramis her sonne, as Iudaea from Iudas, another of her sonnes: but he is deceiued. * 1.2

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* 1.1

Gen. 25.

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* 1.2

Idumaea.

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