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 ...

CHAP. IV.

Vers. 1. GIve] The word properly signifies exhibite or yeeld.

Iust] That is, feed them, govern them, protect them, reward them.

Ye also have a Master in Heaven] That is, one which exerciseth the same authority over you, and will doe the same things that you doe to your servants, viz. oversee you, punish you, call you to account.

Vers. 6. Seasoned with salt] Yea, as in meats, the more subject they are to putrefacti∣on, the more need they have of powdering; so in the matters of speech,* 1.1 the readier we be in vulgar and ordinary matters to forget our selves, the more need have we the more throughly to season them with that holy Salt.

Vers. 12. Alwaies labouring fervently for you]* 1.2

Compleat] or filled; the Greek word is a metaphor from a ship with sailes with

the help of Winds; when a man is filled with the commandement as the saile of a ship is filled with winde.

Vers. 13. I beare him record] or witnesse with him; I yeeld him my testimony.

Vers. 14. Luke the beloved Physitian] Beloved, because of the good he brought to the Church by the skill of Physick. Physitian, to distinguish him from Luke the Evangelist; for if it had been him, he would have given him the title. Calvin and Elton go this way. Estius saith it was Luke the Euangelist, and that he was a Physitian, and so stiled here peradventure,* 1.3 because hereby his Physick was very helpfull to the faithfull.

Vers. 16. And when this Epistle is read amongst you, cause it to be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans] Here is warrant for the publique reading of the word.* 1.4 See 1 Thess. 5.27.

Vers. 17. Take heed] The originall is, see to the ministery. So the Greek word is used 2.8. Matth. 8.25. and 12.38. 1 Cor. 8.9. the meaning is, Carefully look into the Office and function, and diligently weigh and consider what it is, the weight of it, and what belongs to that pastorall duty.

That thou hast received in the Lord] That is, from the Lord, which he of his grace and mercy hath committed unto thee.

That thou fulfill it] The word is metaphoricall, borrowed from a Vessell that ought to be full of liquor, or the like matter, and is not; and it is as much as if he he had said, that thou fill up that Vessell of thy ministery, as it ought to be filled, and leave no empty place in it; do it not to the halves, or in some part, but perform it in every respect, as it ought to be performed, accomplish all the parts of that Office and Ministery.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Sal optimum & utilissimum est ciborum condi∣mentum, si mo∣deratè adhibeatur: transfertur autem ad sapientiam significandam, utpote qua nihil est hominibus utilius in vita. Estius. vide plura ibid.
• * 1.2

  Hisce verbis de∣clarat qualis fuerit haec praecatio Epaphrae pro Colossensibus; assidua nimirum & etiam fervida; assiduitatem vocabulum illud 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 indicat, vehementiam verò & fervorem ostendit verbum illud 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 quod innuit certamen & quasi luctam cum Deo ipso. Episc. Dav.
• * 1.3

  Bifield enclines to this opini∣on.
• * 1.4

  See Act. 15.21.