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. XV.

Vers. 9. PVrifying their hearts by faith] The heart is purified by the bloud of Christ which faith layeth hold on. Acts 26.18. which are sanctified by faith.

Vers. 24. Ye must be circumcised] See 16. Chap. 3. Circumcision was taken away as a sacrament,* 1.1 but it was not yet honourably buried, and therefore it remained onely as a ceremony.

Vers. 28. It seemed good to the holy Ghost and to us] As being assured of the certaine direction of the holy Ghost.

* 1.2Necessary things] Not as they were under the Law, but in respect of the edificati∣on of the weake.

Vers. 29. From bloud, and from things strangled, and from fornication] The Gen∣tiles are forbid the eating of bloud and things strangled,* 1.3 because of the cohabitation of the Jewes, who were to be forborne while the Temple stood, and untill that gene∣ration were dead, which sometimes saw the ceremonies of force.

The reason of the conjunction of fornication with things indifferent, viz. bloud and things strangled: was the generall account that the Gentiles made of fornicati∣on;* 1.4 not the Councels own opinion. Because all these did equally disturbe the Church and stir up strife, between the Gentiles converted and the weake Jewes. Bloud was forbidden after Christs ascension onely in regard of offence and for a time, so long as the weake Jew remained weak, not in regard of conscience. 1. Cor. 6.12.

The Apostles forbid fornication amongst certain things indifferent, not that they judged it an indifferent thing, but because it so seemed to those Gentiles. And this seemes to have been the opinion of the Corinthians.* 1.5 Amongst the Papists, simple for∣nication is accounted a veniall sinne; and those that are carnall among us take forni∣cation, committed by a young man especially, but for a trick of youth.

* 1.6Vers. 39. And the contention was so sharp between them] The word signifies such sharpnesse as there is in Vineger. It is used by Physitians, to signifie the sharpnesse of the feverish humour when it is acting in a fit. Their dissention put them as it were into the fit of a fever.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Dr. Taylor.
• * 1.2

  Vide Bezam.
• * 1.3

  Cum dupliciter possit comedi sanguis, vel in∣tra ipsum ani∣mal, cum adhuc carni admixtus est, vel extra animal cum fusus est; primus modus sub suffocato continetur, secundus sub voce sanguinis intelligitur. Rivetus.
• * 1.4

  Perkins on Rev. 2.15. and in his Cases of Con∣science. See Elton on the seventh Commandement.
• * 1.5

  Non est flagiti∣um mihi crede adolescentulum scortari. Mitio Terentianus. Eadem quae hic sacra Synodus, vetuit etiam suis Impostor Mahomed, nisi quod loco scortationis carnem porcinam nominet. de Dieu in v. 20.
• * 1.6

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 acetum. Plus significat quam dissensionem, à 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 irrito. provoc••, exacerbo. Significat illos usque ad commotionem hac in re dissensisse & adeo ut divellerentur. Apo∣stoli erant, sed tamen homines erant. Erasmus ad v••rbum, facta est igitur exacerbatio Piscat.