Mark — Chapter 15
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 11
11. Cheefe Priests.) The Priests of the old Testament. Heretikes abuse the ignorant People with these naughtie Priests of the old Testament, to make that name odious, & to discredit the Priests of Christ in the new Testament. But for these Priests, thou mayst not maruel that they are so busy against Christ, *partly because they were such as were intruded by the secular power of the Roman Emperour, and from yeare to yeare by bribery and frendship, not by succession according to the Law of Moyses; partly because the time was now come when the old Priesthood of Aaron should cease, and the new begin according to the order of Melchisedech: and for these causes God suffered their former priuileges of wisedom and iudgement and discretion to decay in these later vsurpers, and that according to the prophet saying: **The Law shal perish from the Priest and counsul from the Ancients. The Priesthod of the new Testament. But the Priesthod of the new Testament is to continue vnto the end of the world, and hath (as being the principal part of the Church) the assistance of the Holy Ghost for euer promised, to teach it al truth; and for Peter the cheefe Priest thereof vnder Christ, our Sauiour prayed, That his faith should not faile: and to the rest also he said: ***He that heareth you, heareth me. *Euseb. Ec. Hist. li. 5 c. 6. ex Ioseph. **Ezech. 7,26. Iohn 16,13. ***Luke 22, and 10.
Verse 15
15. To satisfie the People.) Executing lawes against innocents. Pilate should haue suffered death, rather then by other mens prouocation or commandement haue executed an innocent: as a Christian iudge should rather suffer al extremitie, then giue sentence of death against a Catholike man for his faith.
Verse 46
46. Buying sindon.) Religious duty toward the bodies of Christ and his Saints. This dutie done to Christes body after his departure, was exceeding meritorious, and is therfore by holy writ so often commended for an example to faithful men, to vse al honour and deuotion towards the bodies of Saints and holy Persons.