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. IX.

* 1.1Vers. 5. IT is hard for thee to kick against the Pricks] It is a proverbiall Speech used in Heathen writers also.

Vers. 7. Hearing a voice] object. 22. Acts. 9. the Apostle saith expressely they heard not his voice which spake unto him; Paul did not onely see Christs person but heard a voice distinctly; the others heard a sound but not distinctly nor saw his person. Cajetane truly expounds it, the voyce which they heard was Pauls not Christs, see Calvin, and Doctor Reynolds on Psal. 110. pag. 381.

* 1.2Vers. 15. For he is a chosen vessel unto me] That is, to publish among them the doctrin or the Gospell Rev. 2.13. He alludes to that state of Sanctification whereto the Lord had lately called him, whereby he made him a fit instrument for the glory of his name in the ministery of the Gospell.

* 1.3Vers. 22. Proving] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 confirming, that is, as Beza notes, Collatis testimoniis demonstrans, demonstrating it by comparing of one Scripture with another, accor∣ding to the manner of Artificers, who being about to compact or joyne, are wont to fit all the parts amongst themselves, that every one of them may perfectly agree with each other.

Vers. 37. Whom when they had washed,* 1.4 they laid her in an upper chamber] The wash∣ings of the dead were usuall with many Nations.

Vers. 40. Tabitha arise] Tabitha is rather a Syriack then Hebrew name, which Luke rendred in Greek Dorcas; both signifieth a Goat.* 1.5 He useth the same words by which those that sleepe are raised, that he may shew with what easinesse the Divine power raiseth the dead.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Metaphora de∣sumpta à b••bus oratoribus qui cum stimulis recalcitrant, non stimulos sed scipsos laedunt. Adhiberi po∣test in illos qui vel Deo vel potentioribus frustrà & magno suo malo reluctantur. Job. 15.25. Est proverbialis locutio profanis etiam Scripto∣ribus non infrequens. Terentius Phorm. Act. 1. sc. 2. v. 27. Nam quae inscitia est adversus stimulum calces?
• * 1.2

  Vox organi demonstrat nihil posse hom••nes nisi quatenus, eorum operâ De∣us pro su•• arbitrio utitur. Calvinus. Vas Electionis, id est, electum vocatur Paulus, quia instrumentum eximium fuit, per quod Christus latè in omnes Gentes, & Evangelii lucem, & sui nominis gloriam diffunderet. Sanctius.
• * 1.3

  Scripturis sci∣licet collatis demonstrans. Est••enim 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 verbum Architect••m cum ab artificibus desumptum qui si aliquid compingant singulas partes invicem committunt, ut inter se aliae aliis ad amussim quadrent. Bowles de Pastore Evangelico.
• * 1.4

  Sol. ti sunt vete∣res Judaei, Grae∣••i, Romani, cor∣pora defunctorum aquâ lavare, & lota deinceps ad sepidturam tiblis Canentibus efferre vide Schickard de Jure regio Ebrae∣orum, •• c. 6. p. 157. Dieterici Antiquit. Bibl. vide Calvinum & Sanctium.
• * 1.5

  Caprea. Gaude••ant olim mulieres nomi∣nibus ab amabi∣libus et placi••is animalibus petitis. Buxtorsius in Lexic. Talmud. D••rcas est Caprea: sed vitae sanctitas, nominis parū hone∣sti maculam facile delevit. Calvinus.