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. III.

Vers. 5. BY the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the holy Ghost] The Spirit of God alludes to the practise of all civill people at the birth of a childe; they first wash it from its naturall uncleannesse:* 1.1 so the Spirit of God cleanseth us from our spirituall pollution. Baptisme is sacramentally the laver of regeneration; not by the work wrought, but by the grace of Gods Spirit by which we are justified, 1 Pet. 3.21.

Vers. 9. But avoyd foolish questions and genealogies] Such genealogies as are not in the word,* 1.2 which gender questions that the Scripture doth not end and deter∣mine.

Foolish questions] That is, unnecessary, idle, of no moment, of no good use to edifi∣cation, neither in faith nor love, in conscience nor manners.* 1.3 And genealogies] here is condemned all that recounting of kindred and pedegree in all sorts of men, which proceedeth from a vain mind, and tendeth to worldly pomp, and vain-glory. The Jewish Teachers would be much and often in extolling of their Tribes and kindred.

Vers. 10. A man that is an Heretick, after the first and second admonition reject] Or avoyd; not as Erasmus * 1.4 too truly, but bitterly scoffes the Romish practise, Devita, id est, De vita tolle; but reject in an authoritative or judicatory way; not a meere negative act of refraining company, but a positive act of censure is here meant. Gra∣viter quasi censoria correctione reprimendi sunt. Calvinus.

Vers. 11. Is subverted] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. It is as much as if he had said, He is an house subverted * 1.5 or turned upside down, or inside outward,* 1.6 as a house turned off from the foundation.

As a ship a 1.7 turnes up her keele; this Greeke word is used Deut. 32.20. a people turned upside down; or subverted.

Hath the fairest side outward; the word is a Metaphor drawn b 1.8 from foule Linnen, as Favorinus, the foule side turned inward; as if he should have said, such a man, what ever shews he makes, is a naughty man.

Being condemned of himselfe] It is but one word in Greek, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Expe∣rience convinceth that most Hereticks think themselves in the right;* 1.9 so far they are from condemning themselves, in their consciences. But they condemn themselves, by

cutting off themselves from the Church, which other sinners are condemned to by the Church.* 1.10

Vers. 14. And let ours also learn to maintain good works] The words are, let them learne to be eminent in good works above others.* 1.11 The Vulgar hath it, curent bonis operibus praeesse. The Rhemists brag that their Translation (which hath it, to shew forth good works) is the better. We translate it also to excell, and the Greek signifies all three indifferently.

THese Postscrips in the end of Pauls second Epistle to Timothy, and of that to Titus, (as learned Beza hath well observed) were not found in the most ancient Greek copies;* 1.12 nor yet in the Vulgar Latine translation, no not to this day; these additions were made some hundred of yeers after the Apostles. In Ieromes time they were not extant, as the translation that goes in his name can testifie, which hath no such Post∣script. Our former and ancient English Translations, though they have them, yet they are but in a small Character different from the Text, as no part of it. See Mr. Cudworth on the 6 of the Galatians annexed to Mr. Perkins on the Postscripts of the severall Epistles.

Notes

• * 1.1

  16. Ezek. 4.6.9.
• * 1.2

  Cajetan. Stultas quaestio∣nes vocat quae carent rationabili causa quaerendi, quaeque nihil adserunt aedificationis. Estius. Iudaei à parva aetate vernacula sui sermonis vo∣cabula penitissimis sensibus imbiberunt, & ab exordio Adam usque ad extremum Zorobabel, omnium generationes ita memoriter velociterque percurrunt, ut eos suum putes referre nomen. Hieron. in loc. vide Espencaeum.
• * 1.3

  Dr. Taylor.
• * 1.4

  Quem Papistae Erat mus quia ulcera eorum rodit, per convi∣tium nominant. Vide Bezam.
• * 1.5

  Cottons Bloody Tenet.
• * 1.6

  Metaphora sumpta est ab aedificio, quod non modo aliqua parte collapsum est, sed funditus dirutum, ut instaurationi non sit locus. Calvinus. Estius idem ferè habet.
• a 1.7

  Mr. Vines.
• b 1.8

  Mr. Cranford on 2 Tim. 2.17.
• * 1.9

  Thorndikes Discourse of the Right of the Church in a Christian State: Ch. 1. Vide Estium.
• * 1.10

  Fornicator, ad∣ulter, ho••acida, per sacerdotes de Ecclesia propelluntur. Haeretici autem in semet ipsos sententiam ferunt, suo arbitrio de Ecclesia recedentes: quae recessio, propriae conscientiae videtur esse damnatio. Hieron. in loc.
• * 1.11

  Dr. Fulke. See Cartwrights preface to the New Testa∣ment.
• * 1.12

  They are not in the most ancient Parch∣ment Manu∣script Greeke Copy of the Bible, which Mr. Patrick Young hath to publish.

  Subscriptiones illae Apostolicae non sunt: & idcirco neque in Syro, neque in omnibus Graecis exemplaribus leguntur, sed aliquot post saeculis ex Graecorum scholiis videntur adjectae: ne dicam, quod haec ad Titum subscriptio Epistolae ipsi repugnat, quando dicit, Nicopoli scr••ptam Epistolam, cum Paulus. c. 3.12. Titum accersat Nicopolim. Scultetus. Certum est subscriptiones Epi∣stolarum numericas ortum traxisse à piis Christianis quibus vel Epistolae ab Apostolis fuerunt inscriptae, vel qui earundem 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 habuerunt. Tertullianus enim libro de praescriptionibus adversus Haereses post libri medium testatur, suo adhuc tempore, quod in tertium à Christo nato seculum incidit, Authenticas Apostolotum Epistolas fuisse recitatas, sonantes vocem, & repraesentan∣tes faciem uniuscujusque. Waltheri Centuria Miscel. Theol.