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Expositions and notes on sundry portions of the Holy Scriptures
Expositions and notes on sundry portions of the Holy Scriptures Author:William Tyndale Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MARGINAL NOTES ON THE FIRST TWENTY-ONE CHAPTERS OF ST MATTHEW'S GOSPEL. CHAPTER I. Abraham and David are first rehearsed, because that Christ ver. i. w... more »as chiefly promised unto them. St Matthew leaveth out certain generations, and describeth ver.8. Christ's lineage from Solomon, after the law of Moses. But Lucas describeth it according to nature, from Nathan, Solomon's brother. For the law calleth them a man's children, which his brother begat of his wife left behind him after his death. Deut. xxv. That is to say, by the working and power of the Holy ver. is. Ghost. That is, he would not put her to open shame, as he wellver.i9- might have done by the law. Also Matthew rejoiceth of the goodness of Joseph, which, for love's sake, did remit of his right. Jesus is as much to say as a Saviour; for he only saveth ver.2i. all men from their sins by his merits, without their deserving. Christ bringeth God: where Christ is, there is God ; and ver. 23. where Christ is not, there is not God. Ye shall not suppose that he knew her afterward. But . as. it is the manner of the scripture so to speak. Gen. viii. "The raven came not again till the water was drunk up, and the earth dry." The scripture meaneth not, he came again afterward: even so here, it followeth not that Joseph knew our ladyi afterward. CHAPTER II. Of Matthew they are called Magi; and in certain countries vCT i in the east philosophers, cunning in natural causes and effects, and also the priests, were so called. Jewry is the land; Judah is that tribe or kindred that ver. 6. dwelt therein. [l In the notes to Tyndale's Test. of 1538, of which there is a copy in the Bapt. Coll. Museum, Bristol, Mary is substituted for our lady.] ver. is. Rachael was buried not far from Bethlehem; and the ...« less