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Luke — Chapter 4

Douai-Rheims 1609 · Annotations

These annotations are from the original 1582 Rheims New Testament, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Rheims. The archaic spelling is preserved.

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Verse 13

13. Departed vntil a time.) The Diuels tentations. No maruel if the Diuel be often or alwayes busie with Christian men, seeing after he was plainely ouercome by Christ, yet did he not giue him ouer altogether, but for a time.

Verse 23

23. Done in Capharnaum.) Miracles at one place and not at another. God maketh choise of persons and places where he worketh miracles or doeth benefits, though he might doe the same elswhere, if it liked his wisedom. So doth he in doing miracles by Saints, not in al places, nor towards al persons, but as it pleaseth him. Aug. ep. 137.

Verse 30

30. Passing through the middes of them.) Christs body conteined in place aboue nature. Either by making himself inuisible, or also more wonderfully, penetrating the multitude and passing through them, as he did through the doore, his body either being without space of place, or with other bodies in one place. By al which and the like doings mentioned in the Ghospel, it is euident that he can alter and order his body as he list, aboue the natural conditions of a body.

Verse 38

38. Simons wiues mother.) The Apostles left their wiues. It is euident that Peter had a wife, but after his calling to be an Apostle, he left her, as S. Hierom writeth in many places ep. 43 c. 2 ad Iulianum. Li. 1 adu. Iouin. See the Annot. Matth. 19,29.