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. XXII.

Vers. 2. AND yeelded her fruit every moneth] Were the trees so created at first, that if sin had never entred in (which hath brought into the world thornes, briars, sweate of face,* 1.1 and difficulty of living) they would have flourished alwayes laden with their fruites? This allusion here seemes to intimate some such matter, and perhaps Christ would never have cursed the Fig-tree that was void of fruit, when the time of Figs was not come, unlesse it ought to have borne figs at all times by the first nature thereof. Marke 11.13.

Vers. 4. And they shall see his face] Not that men shall have a beatificall vision of God here, but such a glorious discoverie of the will of God, that it shall be a beatificall vision in comparison of what was before seen.

Vers. 8. I fell down to worship before the feet of the Angell] See Rev. 19.10.* 1.2

Vers. 12. To give every man according as his worke shall be] Marke, he saith not to the worke, or for the worke, but to the worker, according to his workes. Perkins.

Vers. 15. And whosoever loveth and maketh a lye] Some apply it to hypocrisie, others to hankering after the old way of Idolatry.

Vers. 16. The bright and Morning Starre] That is, Christ, it is not unusuall to call any eminent person by this name. See Esay 14.12.

Vers. 17. And the Spirit and the Bride say, come] That is (say some) the Spirit in the Bride.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Brightman.
• * 1.2

  Johannes semel admonitus ite∣rum id non contendisset, nisi ex quadam tantum urbanitate prohibitum se credidisset. Lorinas in c. 10. Act. Apost. v. 25. Ejusdem opinionis est Viegas in. c. 19. Apoc. v. 10. & 22. v. 8. Verum verba Angeli pro urbana repulsa accipi nequeunt, sed pro necessaria prohibitione sunt intelligenda, inprimis si mandatum Adora Deum, & verba concisa Videne feceris, con∣sideremus. Rivetus in Catholico orthodoxo.