PARAGRAPH 1.
YOu heard before the opinion of the incomparable Ioseph Scaliger, of Kem∣nitius, of Beza; and yet Beza hath more to say. Beza on Matth. 26.26. on the words, Edentibus illis, &c. As they were eating, &c. Hoc est factum 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: This was done after supper: hee proveth it by Luk. 22.20. and the 1 Cor. 11.25. Thence hee concludeth: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, this word supper in this Hi∣story is called the Legall supper, which Christ abrogating afterwards, substituted his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: supper of the Lord for ever.
The same Beza in Mat. 26.20. speaketh of the Jewish custome thus, Coena (Ag∣ni) peracta, consurgentes, altera pedum ablutione facta, rursum discumbentes, ad se∣cundas mensas sese comparabant: In has secundas mensas pro bellariis inferebatur in tri∣bulo acetarium ex intybis, & lactucis agrestibus. The supper (of the Lambe) be∣ing ended, they arose, and having washed their feete, the second time, they sate downe againe, and addressed themselves to the second supper. At this second supper, instead of junkets, there was brought in, in a platter a sallet of Succory, Endive and wild Lettice. Here Beza is awry, making the sowre hearbes or sauces, to be excluded from the first supper. Agno illo solidocum paucis azymis vescentes. Eating that whole Lambe with a little unleavened bread, not mentio∣ning the sowre sauce. Hee might as well exclude unleavened bread.
Wiser Scaliger de Emendatione temporum 6. pag. 567. They erre who thinke that Christ did eate the Passeover with unleavened bread, for how was it then the Passeover? Therefore with unleavened bread and sowre herbes did Christ celebrate the Passeover, saith he. And indeed sowre herbes were a necessary ce∣remony, lasting, and fixed, at the eating of this Paschall, as I proved before, and the sacrifice had beene maymed, if it had beene defrauded of this sauce: and pro∣perly no Passeover, if either unleavened bread, or sowre hearbes had beene away: or the sacrifice of the herd, had not bene offered, though at first sup∣per not eaten,