Mark — Chapter 16
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Verse 1
1. Bought spices.) The womens deuotion toward Christs body being dead. As she did bestow and consume a costly ointment vpon his body being yet aliue (c. 14,3.) Christ himself defending and highly commending the fact against Iudas and other who accounted it to be superfluous and better to be bestowed otherwise: So not without great deuotion and merit, she and these other women seeke to anoint his body dead (though Heretikes or other simple persons may pretend such things to be better bestowed vpon the poore) and therfore, *she first before al other, **and they next, saw him after his Resurrection. *Mark 16,9. **Mat. 28,9.
Verse 11
Inthe exultation of the iuft there is much plorie: when the impious reigne ruines of men, ‘thal confeffe,and fhal forfake them, fhal obtayne mercie,
Verse 12
12. In an other shape.) Christs body vnder diuers formes. Christ though he haue but one corporal shape, natural to his Person, yet by his omnipotencie he may be in whatsoeuer forme, & appeare in the likenesse of any other man or creature, as he list. Therfore let no man thinke it strange, that he may be vnder the forme of bread in the B. Sacrament.
Verse 15
many by calumnie : but he that hateth auarice, his dayes fhal beanade long, ‘+17. A manthat doth calumniate the bloud of a foule,if he thal flye into a lake,noman abideth,
Verse 16
16. He that beleeueth.) Not only faith. Note wel, that whereas this Euangelist mentioneth only faith & Baptisme, as though to beleeue & to be baptized were enough, S. Matthew addeth these wordes also of our Sauiour, *teaching them to obserue al things whatsoeuer I haue commaunded you, which containeth al good workes and the whole iustice of a Christian man. *Mat. 28,20.
Verse 17
17. These signes shal folow.) The guift of miracles. It is not meant, that al Christians or true beleeuers should doe miracles; but that some for the proofe of the faith of al, should haue that guift. The which is the grace or guift of the whole Church, executed by certaine for the edification and profite of the whole.