Luke — Chapter 8

5. That did minister.) Holy women that followed Christ. It was the custome of the Iewes that women of their substance did minister meate and drinke and cloth to their teachers, going about with them. Which because it might haue been scandalous among the Gentils, *S. Paul maketh mention that he vsed it not. And they ministred to our Lord of their substance for this cause, that he whose spiritual benefites they reaped, might reape their carnal things. *1. Cor. 9,5. 12.

And Pharaoes hart was indurate,and he heard them not as our Lerd hadcommanded. 20. Our Lord alfo faid to Moyfes: Arife early , and ftand before Pharao:for he wil goe forthto the waters:&thou fhalt fay to him : This faith our Lord ; Difimifie my people to facrifice vnto me 2:.And if thou wilt not difmifle thé, behold J wil {édin vp6 thee & vp thy feruants,& vpon thy people,and vpon thy houfes al kind of ()flies: and the houfes of Agypt thal be filled with flies of diuers kinds,and the whole land wherein they fhal be.22.And I wil make the Land of Geffen merueilous in that day , wherin my peopleis , fo that flies fhal nor be there:& thou fhalt know that am the Lord in the middes of the earth, 23.And I wil put a diuijion between my people & thy people:to norow fhal this figne be. 24. And Our Lord did fo.Andthere came a very grie- uous flieinto the houfes of Pharao & ot his feruants,& into al the Land of € gypt:& the Land was corrupted by fuch kind of flies. 25. And Pha- taocalled Moyfes & Aaron, and faid to them.Goe and facrifice to your God inthis land.26. And Moyfes faid : It can not fo be done: for if we fhal offer the abominations of the Agyptians to the Lord our God, and (+) we kil thofe things which the Agyptians doe worfhip before them, they wil beate vs downc with ftones. 27. We wil goe forth three dayes iourney into the wildernes: and we wil faerifice vntothe Lord our ‘God,as he hath commandedvs. 28. And Pharao faid :1 wil difmiffe you to facrifice to the Lord your God in the defert : but goe no farder; pray tor me. 25. And Moyfes faid : Being gone forth from thee , I wil _ pray toour Lord: and the fite {hal depart trom Pharao , and from his _feruants,and from his people ro morow : but decciuc no more fo, that thou wilt not difmiffe the people to facrifice vnto our Lord. 30. And Moyfes being gone forth irom Pharao prayed our Lord. 31. Who did according to his word ; and he tooke away the flies from Pharao, and , trom his feruants , and from his people : tnere was left not fo muchas one, 3z. And Pharaocs hart(&)was hardned , fo that ncither thistime , would he diffimiffe the people, CHAP. Ce) The 3. pla gue fciniphes, {male flying deafts, efpe- cially mole- {ting més eves. Philola.de vita Meys, of) Tre dinelst power limired by God, Ied1, Ia, '(g) The encha- iters Conuinced jin their vnder~ 'ftanding, con= ‘feffed the ‘power of God, jbut not chaged 'in aTe@ion, 'perfifted in imalice againit the truth, \(h} The 4-pla- -gue,Aboun. idace of al forts 1of fies, ()AEgyptiasn worfhipping beafts thought it intolerable abomination ito kil, or eate, -or burne them ‘in facrifice, :Gen. 43,032,

20. Thy brethren.) The brethren of Christ. These brethren of our Lord, were not the sonnes of the B. Virgin MARIE the mother of God, as *Heluidius wickedly taught: neither are they to be thought (as S. Hierom writeth**) some others say the sonnes of Ioseph by an other wife: for not only our Lady was a virgin, but by reason of her, Ioseph also: that our Sauiour might be borne of a virginal matrimonie. But they are called his brethren (according to the vsual speach of the Scriptures) because they were his cosins, either the sonnes of Iosephs brother, or (as the more receiued opinion is) the sonnes of our Ladies sister called Marie of Iames, which Iames therfore is also called the brother of our Lord. *Hiero. cont. Heluid. c. 9. **Ibidem c. 8.

55. Her spirit returned) A third place after this life. This returning of the soules againe into the bodies of them whom CHRIST and his Apostles raised from death (specially Lazarus who had been dead foure dayes) doth euidently proue a third place against our aduersaries, that say, euery one goeth straight to Heauen or to Hel. For it can not be thought that they were called from the one or the other, and therfore from some third place.