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CHAP. XIX.
Verse 1. And came into the coasts of Judaea.]
VPon the news of Lazarus his friends sicknesse: with the* 1.1 hazard of his life, he came far on foot to the help of his friend:* 1.2 Much water cannot quench love. And this was our Saviours last journey toward Jerusalem: to the which he steeled his face* 1.3 with fortitude, and was even 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or pained, till it were ac∣complished.* 1.4 So was that Martyr, who (because he seemed at his* 1.5 lodging to be somewhat troubled, and was therefore asked by* 1.6 one how he did?) answered, In very deed I am in prison, till I be in* 1.7 prison.
Verse 2. And great multitudes followed him]
Though he were then to die. For all that follows from this 19 to Chap. 26.* 1.8 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to be a relation of the acts of the last three moneths of his 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Follow God, was a morall precept of the Heathen Sages;* 1.9 who therein placed the safety and happinesse of a man, Magnus est animus qui se Deo tradidit, saith Seneca. He is a brave man that follows God thorow thick and thin, thorow whatsoever hardship.
Verse 3. Is it lawfull for a man &c.]
A captious question, pur∣posely to put him to shame or perill afore the people. For if he li∣ked divorce, the better sort would be offended and displeased: if he disliked it, the common sort (those that followed him,) for denying them that liberty that Moses had allowed them. One thing that created Jeremy so much trouble among the people of his time was, that he 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them to the yeelding up of the City to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which Isaiah had so earnestly disswaded them, not long before in the dayes of King 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Verse 4. And he answered and said unto them]
Our Saviour* 1.10 would not divide the inheritance, when required to it; but he would decide controversies touching divorces: for in marriage∣matters many cases of conscience fall out fit to be determined by the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, whose lips should both preserve and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 know∣ledge to the people, whose house for this cause should be alwayes 〈◊〉〈◊〉, as the Ediles house in Rome was to all comers.
Verse 5. And said, For this cause &c.]
Dixit, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 three things are said by Moses to have been done by God in the institution, and for the honour of marriage: to the