PAR. 6.
NInthly, the Romanes were wont at their feasts, to place below them, neare their bosome; their Children, or deare friends: So did Christ to Iohn, the chiefe-disciple, whom Christ loved; Ambrose, Nonnè tibi videtur Christus incidisse in collum Ioannis, quandò Ioannes erat in sinu, cervice recumbens reflexâ? Doe not you thinke, that Christ leaned on Iohns necke, when Iohn lay, in his bosome, looking backe∣ward? So farre Pererius: I answere, that granting all this to be true; yet Pererius his maine intendment proceedeth lamely, that the Iewes did so, in imitation of the Romanes; yet, is it likely that from the custome of discumbing on the breast of their friend, in their Suppers; was the phrase, borrowed of being in Abrahams bo∣some; yea even that divine speech, in which it is sayd, that the Sonne came out of the bosome of his Father, Ioh. 1.18.