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. XXIV.

Vers. 2. SEeing that by thee wee enjoy great quietnesse] It is one of the rhetoricall pre∣cepts by praising the Judge, to make him benevolous to a mans selfe, which Paul was not ignorant of, as appeares vers. 10. and 26.2.3.

Vers. 5. A pestilent fellow] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a pestilence;* 1.1 foolish Tertullus that mistooke the antidote for the poyson; the remedy for the disease! Doctor Hall.

A ring-leader a 1.2] The word signifies the first man in his ranke, a military word. Qui primus ad frontem aciei constitutus est. Hesychius.

Vers. 14. Written in the Law and Prophets] That is, to hold and imbrace the same faith, which was embraced by the Saints, and Servants of God, in ancient times;* 1.3 and which was written by Moses, and the Prophets.

Vers. 16. Alwayes] Or throughout, in all cases, by all meanes, or at all times;* 1.4 as the word may indifferently be construed.

Vers. 25. And as he reasoned of righteousnesse, temperance, and judgement to come, Felix trembled] Felix was deditus saevitiae & libidini (a) 1.5; righteousnesse hath reference to others, temperance to our selves, judgement to God.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Pestem) sicut scelus pro scele∣rato dicitur pestiferum non expressa empha∣si. Beza.
• a 1.2

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Principem. Id est, quasi primos ordines ducentem, seu primipilarem. Est enim hoc vocabulum militare. Beza in loc. Sic vocantur qui in arte, qui in cōvivio, qui in judicio aut re quavis alia primarium locum obtinent. Grotius.
• * 1.3

  Mr. Perkins.
• * 1.4

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• (a) 1.5

  Tacitus, see Josephus Antiq. lib. 20. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 temperance, the word in the originall properly signifies Chastity.