A fruitfull commentarie vpon the twelue small prophets briefe, plaine, and easie, going ouer the same verse by verse, and shewing every where the method, points of doctrine, and figures of rhetoricke, to the no small profit of all godly and well disposed readers, with very necessarie fore-notes for the vnderstanding of both of these, and also all other the prophets. The text of these prophets together with that of the quotations omitted by the author, faithfully supplied by the translatour, and purged of faults in the Latine coppie almost innumerable, with a table of all the chiefe matters herein handled, and marginall notes very plentifull and profitable; so that it may in manner be counted a new booke in regard of these additions. VVritten in Latin by Lambertus Danæus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood minister and preacher at Tunbridge.
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A fruitfull commentarie vpon the twelue small prophets briefe, plaine, and easie, going ouer the same verse by verse, and shewing every where the method, points of doctrine, and figures of rhetoricke, to the no small profit of all godly and well disposed readers, with very necessarie fore-notes for the vnderstanding of both of these, and also all other the prophets. The text of these prophets together with that of the quotations omitted by the author, faithfully supplied by the translatour, and purged of faults in the Latine coppie almost innumerable, with a table of all the chiefe matters herein handled, and marginall notes very plentifull and profitable; so that it may in manner be counted a new booke in regard of these additions. VVritten in Latin by Lambertus Danæus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood minister and preacher at Tunbridge.
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Daneau, Lambert, ca. 1530-1595?
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[Cambridge] :: Printed by Iohn Legate, printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge [and at London, by J. Orwin] 1594. And are to be sold [by R. Bankworth] at the signe of the Sunne in Paules Church-yard in London,
[1594]
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Bible. -- O.T -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"A fruitfull commentarie vpon the twelue small prophets briefe, plaine, and easie, going ouer the same verse by verse, and shewing every where the method, points of doctrine, and figures of rhetoricke, to the no small profit of all godly and well disposed readers, with very necessarie fore-notes for the vnderstanding of both of these, and also all other the prophets. The text of these prophets together with that of the quotations omitted by the author, faithfully supplied by the translatour, and purged of faults in the Latine coppie almost innumerable, with a table of all the chiefe matters herein handled, and marginall notes very plentifull and profitable; so that it may in manner be counted a new booke in regard of these additions. VVritten in Latin by Lambertus Danæus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood minister and preacher at Tunbridge." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19799.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Ver. 6.
The children also of Iudah, and the children of Ierusalem haue you solde vnto the Grecians, that you might send them farre from their border.
THirdly he accuseth them of barbarous cruelty, namely,* 1.1 that they were not content to carry away captiue the children of Iu∣dah, and of Ierusalem, that is such men and people as both were neighbours vnto them, and also peculiarly dedicated or appointed vnto God, and to sell them as if they had bin brute beastes: but also through singular cruelty they did seatter them into the farthest countries, that possibly they could, as namely selling them vnto
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Grecians and Barbarians, and men dwelling beyond the sea, to that end that the Iewes should by no meanes be able to redeeme or ransome themselues afterward, and to returne vnto their natiue soyle, or country where they were borne, by reason of the distance of places, and straungenes & cruelty of the men, vnto whom they were in bondage. So then their purpose was to keepe them bond slaues for euer, so far as lay in these Sidonians, Syrians, and Phili∣stims. So Amos 1. ver. 6. the Philistims are accused for that they sold the captiue Iewes vnto people that were greatest enemies vn∣to them. Furthermore by these wordes the sonnes or children of Iu∣dah and Ierusalem, I doubt not but that the treachery or vnfaithful∣nes of the Tirians, the old and ancient confederates of the Iewes is reprehended, as who namely had so most cruelly broken the olde leagues betweene their kinges and the kinges of the Iewes, as aun∣cient as from the times of Salomon and Hiram, as may appeare 1. King. 5. and had forgotten the same.