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. X.

Verse 1. THe people resort unto him againe] That he repeates the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, againe, twice, we may thence collect, that he dismissed those former Companies healed by him, and that afterward another new Company met together,* 1.1 and came to him.

As he was wont, be taught them againe] This is a laudable custome, for one to use to do those things which belong to his calling according to the will of God.* 1.2

Vers. 3. What did Moses command you] He asked, not as if he had been ignorant of Moses his Doctrine, but that he might shew himself to be in no wise a contemner of the Law.

Vers. 14. Suffer the little children to come unto me] Not such as were like to children, for he took them up into his armes.

For of such is the kingdome of God] He meanes not the kingdom of glory, but the vi∣sible Church of God, it is constituted of such; no child by nature is a Church mem∣ber, but by vertue of the Covenant made with his Parents. Ephes. 2.12.

Vers. 17. There came one running, and kneeled to him] Which seemes to shew his zeale and humility; his compellation, good Master. His errand, or the matter of his question, What shall I do to have eternall life?

Vers. 18. There is no man good but one, that is God] That is, simply, absolutely, essen∣tially, and of himselfe such. Christ neither denies himself to be God, nor to be good, yet he received not the epithete of good from this man; as if he should say, because thou thinkest me to be a meere man, thou oughtest deservedly to abstaine from calling me good, since God only is to be called good, and if there be any good found with men they receive it from God alone.

Vers. 21. Loved him] With compassion, not approbation of his avarice. Chrysostome, Jerome.* 1.3 The Greeke word signifieth friendly to speake to, and deale gently with one, so the LXX use it, 2 Chron. 18.2.

Chrysostome saith, that he was covetous; Jerome, that he came to tempt Christ.

Sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poore] That commandement was not ordina∣ry,* 1.4 but speciall, belonging to the young man; it was a commandement of triall given to him only, and the reason of it was peculiar to him, viz. to shew him his corrupti∣on, confidence in his riches, and to discover his hypocrisie.

Vers. 22. Went away grieved] Lowring, a metaphor taken from the lowring of the heavens on a wet morning.* 1.5

Vers. 24. Children] Thereby reproving their weakenesse of understanding.

Vers. 29. For my sake and the Gospell] Matthew saith, for my sake, Luke, for the kingdom of God. The sense amongst all the three is the same, for it is Christ who brought the Gospell out of his Fathers bosome, and by that restores the kingdome of God, whence these three, Christ, the Gospell, and the kingdome of God, cannot be separated one from ano∣ther. Polyc. Lyser.

Vers. 30. He shall receive an hundred fold] eminenter, not formaliter, not a hundred Fa∣thers,* 1.6 but he shall have that in God which all the Creatures would be to him if they were multiplyed a hundred times; wife here is left out in the repetition; See 1 Cor. 12.28.

With persecutions] Christ doth not promise persecution (which would be absurd) but saith it shall be, that in the midst even of persecutions they shall be more happy a hundred fold than ever before, who preferred Christ before all the commodities of this life.

Marke addes this (saith Grotius) lest we should thinke that temporall felicity was promised us. Solatitia promittuntur, non delitiae.

Vers. 49. Be of good comfort, rise, he calleth thee] Whence it appeares that he was troubled in his mind, peradventure because yesterday & now to day some blind persons were healed, he feared lest the patience of the Lord should faile in him. Polyc. Lyser.

Vers. 50. He casting away his garment, rose, and came to Iesus] From whence we may collect his great desire, and the greatnesse of his confidence,* 1.7 he did not simply rise but leapt for joy, and that he might come the nimbler to Jesus, he also cast away his cloake, teaching us, that if at any time we be called of Christ by his word, we should hasten to him without any delay. Polyc. Lyser.

Vers. 52. Go thy way] He commands him to go away, not as if he could not endure him about him; but as he gently dismissed others who received benefits from him,* 1.8 lest they should thinke themselves bound to service for the benefit received, as Marke 5.34. and 7.29.

Followed * 1.9 Iesus in the way] Going to Jerusalem to beare his Crosse.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Polyc. Lyser.
• * 1.2

  Polyc. Lyser.
• * 1.3

  Ex usu vocis 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 apud Lxx interpre∣tes videtur no∣bis majorem lucem hoc loco ad ferri posse. Ibi enim non semper pro diligere, sed & pro amicis blandisque verbis compel∣lare & laudare sumitur. Vt Cant. 1.14. 2 Paral. 18.2. Psal. 78.37. Similiter ego & hoc loco intelligo, servatorum nostrum, audita juvenis jactantia, qui se universam legem observasse gloriaretur, noluisse eum apertè mendacij arguere, severisque verbis objurgare, sed adblanditus est ei, laudavit eum ac studium quod legi servandae impenderat, amicisque eum super hac re verbis compel lavit. de Dieu in Marc. 10.••1.
• * 1.4

  Mr. Perkins.
• * 1.5

  Videtur mihi 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ad vultum magis quam ad animum pertinere, quasi dicas fronte nubila. Vide Mat. 16.3. Grotius.
• * 1.6

  Perridiculus erat Iulianus ille Apostata, quum hunc lo∣cum exagitans, quaereret num centum etiam uxores habitu∣ri ossent Chri∣stiani. Beza in loc.
• * 1.7

  Polyc. Lyser.
• * 1.8

  Polyc. Lyser.
• * 1.9

  Quorū salva∣bat animas, sa∣nabat corpora. Bernard.