John — Chapter 7
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Verse 2
Scenopegia ( Leu. 23. σκηνῶν ἑορτὴ) is the feast of Tabernacles, which the Iewes kept from the 7. of Octo. for eight dayes together by Gods commandement, for a memorie that their Fathers dwelt by God’s protection fourtie yeares in tabernacles or tentes, and not in houses, comming out of AEgypt. See Leuit. 23,34.
Verse 17
The way to come to know the truth, is to liue wel.
Verse 18
It is spoken of Antichrist specially, and it is true in al Heretikes August. tract. 29. in Euang Ioan.
Verse 20
No maruel, when these speake thus to Christ himself, if Heretikes cal his Vicar Antichrist.
Verse 39
This was fulfilled on whitsunday Act. 2. and afterward alwayes by imposition of hands in the Sacrament of Confirmation: visibly in the primitiue Church, and inuisibly to the end of the world.
Verse 50
Christ hath some good alwayes euen among the wicked, which secretly serue him and by wise delayes auert the execution of iniust lawes against him and his people, as Nicodemus and Gamaliel.