Deuteronomy — Chapter 5
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Verse 8
Thou shalt not make.] If our aduersaries would quietly consider the coherence of the holy text, they might easily see, that this prohibition of making and worshipping the similitude of anie creature, perteyneth to the former sentence: Thou shalt not haue strange Gods: more particularly forbidding either to make Idoles, or to worship such as others make; and that with commination, because our Lord is a ielous God, and wil not suffer his honour to be giuen to anie creature. But other Images were made in the old Testament, by Gods commandment, and likewise Images of Christ and his Saints are lawful and profitable among Christians, as before is noted. Exod. 20.
Verse 10
can, vet vve are more bound to fuccour Chriftians, then levves or Infidels: and Catho. likes,then Heretikes. See $, Hierom g. 1, ad Hedibiam.
Verse 13
bur they vvil haue you to be circumcifed,rhat they may glorie in your 14 flefh. ¢ ’Buc**God forbid thar] fhould glorie,fauing inthe crofleof our Lord] esvs Chrift: by vvhom the vvorld is 15 crucifiedto me,and Ito the vvorld. t For in Chrift lesvs neither circumcifion auaileth ought,nor prepuce, but’anevv 16 creature. + And vvhofocuer (hal folovv thisrule,peace vpé 17 them,and mercie,and vpon the Ifraél of God. t From hence- furth lec no man be troublefome to me. for 1 beare the mar- 18 kesof our Lord] esvsinmy body. The grace of our Lord lesvs Chrift be vvith your {pirit brethren. Amen. 4