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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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vnlerned people that know not the scripture beleue in him. Loke
whether any of the
rulars or phareses doo beleue in him.
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legend of S.
Bartholomewe. According to the Golden
Legend, when Bartholomew preached the gospel in India, he saw
an idol inhabited by a demon, who supposedly cured the sick. Bartholomew
bound the demon, cured a young woman, and converted her father the king and his people to Christianity (GL 2.
110–12).
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Wherfore the scripture truely vnderstond aftir the
playne places and generall articles of the faith which thou
findest in the scripture / and the ensamples that are gonne
before / wyll all waye testifie who
is the right church. Though the phareses succeded
the patriarkes and prophetes and had the scripture of them /
yet they were heretikes and fallen from the faith of them &
from their lyuynge. And Christ
and his disciples & Ihon the Baptist departed
from the phareses
which were heretikes / vn to the right sens of the
scripture & vn to the faith & liuinge of the patriarkes
& prophetes and rebuked the phareses. As thou seist how
Christ calleth them ypocrites / dissimulars / blynd gydes &
paynted sepulchres. And Ihon called them the
generacion of vipers & serpentes. Of Ihon the
angell said vn to his
father Luke .j. he shall turne many of the children
of Israel vn to their lord god. Which yet before Ihon beleued
after a fleshly vnderstondynge in god & thought them selues
in the right waye. And he shall turne the hertes of the fathers
vn to the childerne. That is / he shall with his preachynge
& true interpretynge of the scripture make
soch a spirituall hert in the children as was in
their fathers / Abraham / Isaac / & Iacob. And he shall
turne the disobedient vn to the obedience of the rightteouse
& prepare the lorde a perfecte people. That is / them that
had sett vpp a rightewysnesse of their awne & were therfore
disobedient vnto the rightewysnesse of faith / shall
he conuerte from their blyndnesse vn to the wisdome
of them that beleued in god to be made righ
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91/28
ioyes of
Orestes. The Furies drove Orestes mad after he killed his
mother Clytemnesta for murdering his father Agamemnon; cf. Euripides,
Orestes (408 BC). Erasmus calls the
conservative Catholic
Edward Lee "raving mad, like Orestes in the
play." From Ep. 1113, To Philippus
Melanchthon, Louvain, [before 21 June
1520] (Allen 4.287/12; CWE 7.313/11–12). More quotes Persius (Satires 3.118) on "mad Orestes": Ep. 15, To
Martin Dorp, Bruges, 21 October <1515> (CWM 15.32/28);
Ep. 86, To Germanus Brixius, n.p., 1520 (CWM 3/2.604/24); Responsio ad Lutherum, 1523 (CWM 5/1.252/31).
92/6–7
false . . .
agayne. Cf. CWM 6/1.104/18–24. For the Good Samaritan, cf.
Luke 10.35.
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