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A36047	The exposition of Dionysius Syrus written above 900 years since on the evangelist St. Mark / translated by Dudley Loftus ... anno 1672 ; wherewith are bound up several other tracts of the same authour, and an ancient Syriack scholia on the four evangelists, as also some Persian, Armenian, and Greek antiquities, translated as aforesaid : the titles whereof are set down immediately after the Epistle to the reader, with refereuce [sic] to the several pages where they are.	Dionysius Exiguus, d. ca. 540.; Loftus, Dudley, 1619-1695.	1672 (1672)	Wing D1525; ESTC R37278	110,280	261

of the Kings there were Forty and four to wit Ahazia and Joash and Amotsia and Eliakim who was Jehoiakim being added CHAP. IV. HE departed from him for a season That is to say until the time of the Passion when he incited the Jewes to apprehend him The acceptable year of the Lord. That is to say The year wherein Repentance for sin was to be accepted by the Lord. Naaman the Oromojan That is to say the Syrian The Nestorian reads the Syriack word with Pathocho over Olaph and a quiescent R. That is to say the Gentile but that reading is not to be approved of because the Greek reads it o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Syrian CHAP. VII OR expect we another Some say That this disjunctive particle beareth in this place the sense of a negative and that John did not say thus interrogatively but positively as if he would have said Thou art he and we do not expect another but this is not the meaning of the words CHAP. IX AND a returning spirit That is to say on certain dayes it left him and then Tormented him as an ague CHAP. X. THen to this City That is to say and not to this City Peradventure they had repented in sackeloth and ashes The Nestorians read the word repented in the masculine plural but not rightly because the Greek reads it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And behold a certain Scribe arose to tempt him The Commentators of Cineria are of Opinion That this was the same who is mentioned in Matthew and Mark to have said to our Lord Good Master What shall I do to inherit eternal life And that this was not he is certain from this consideration that there is mention made of him by Luke hereafter in the paragraphy of the tenth Sabbath Thou art sollicitous about many things That is to say more than are necessary But one thing is requisite That is to say The exigency of the day CHAP. XI TEach us to pray The prayer Our Father which art in Heaven Matthew and Luke onely mention it and Luke doth not add For thine is the Kingdom c. The Queen of the South The Sarakians say That the name of this Queen was Balkis CHAP. XII COmmand my brother to divide inhèritance with me This man was covetous and because his brother followed our Lord he hoped that our Lord would have said unto him Leave whatsoever thou hast unto thy brother and come after me But when he discovered the evil intention of his Covetousness which made him forsake the secular Judges to come unto him he did not vouchsafe to answer his request The Baptism wherewith I shall be baptized That is to say I am to dye a voluntary death wherein I am to rise from the Earth as out of the Water CHAP. XIII TO day and to morrow That is to say This year and the next Out of Jerusalem That is to say it was necessary that the Jewes the sons of Jerusalem should partake in the murther of the Prophets for though Jeremy was slain in Egypt yet was he stoned by those Jewes of Jerusalem who fled from the Chaldeans and Daniel dyed a natural death in Babilon CHAP. XVI AND taketh another committeth adultery That is to say he who without a lawful cause puts away the first There was a certain rich man Because he was wicked his name is not mentioned according to that I will not remember their name with my lips And moreover That he might shew that he was to blot the names of the wicked out of the Book of Life and many of the Doctors say That this rich man was not in any real subsistency neither Lazarus the Beggar but that it was onely a Parable and it is certain That as yet the wicked have not received Torment nor the Righteous Bliss as Paul saith They received not the promise that they might not be perfected without us Saint Cyril saith That this Rich man was in very deed and that his name was Naphtali of the Tribe of Dan and that Lazarus was descended from the Gibeonites and behold his Water-pot is preserved hitherunto and whosoever is ulcerous or lame in his Feet is Cured thereby And was cloathed with fine linen That is to say pure white Cotten which by reason of the exceeding fineness thereof is like to the air CHAP. XVII MIght say unto this Sycamore tree be thou plucked up by the roots and be planted in the sea He brought this Tree for an instance by reason it hath more Roots than other Trees CHAP. XVIII AND was not restrained by shame of men Who adored the fire which is insensible But I fast twice in the Week That is to say The Pharisees fasted the second and fifth day of the Week CHAP. XXII HE who is greatest amongst you It is likely that they did not remember what was said unto Peter That thou art Cephas and on thee will I build my Church and I will give thee the Keyes of Heaven Here are two Swords St. Junnis saith That they were Knives for the Passeover which were prepared there CHAP. XXIII AND they gave him vineger That he might drink thereof and dye the sooner CHAP. XXIV AND from Jerusalem sixty furlongs In some of the Greek copies it is an Hundred and sixty Peace be with ye amen The word amen is not found in all copies And he took and did eat before them He did eat that he might remove from them the Opinion of a Phantasm and not that he stood in need of meat And he lifted up his hands and blessed them That is to say he made them Bishops and when he sent them two and two he made them Deacons to wit purifiers from evil spirits and when he breathed on them and gave them power to forgive sins he ordained them Priests JOHN wrote his Gospel in the Greek Tongue at the Request of those of Asia And Eusebius saith That Peter and Paul came unto him to Ephesus and did perswade him to write JOHANNIS CHAP. I. The Word was made flesh and dwelt in us HE here declares his natural union and personality with humane nature and not the change of his nature And of his fulness have we all received This is the saying of the Evangelist and not of the Baptist And grace That is to say new for grace that is to say old Truth and grace was by Jesus Christ He doth not say That the Law of Moses was false but that it was the shadow of this body These things were done in Bethany beyond Jo●dan In ancient Copies it is written These things were done in the passage of Jordan And this is to be approved for Bethany was not in the Wilderness where John baptized for it was about Twelve miles from Jordan One of those who heard That is to say Andrew and John himself was the other but he would not express his name being restrained by humility Can any good thing come out of Nazareth He saith this as having read that

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on the Four Gospels Page 101 Mark chap. I. The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ Luke chap. I. Page 137 Johannis chap. I. The Word was made flesh and dwelt in us Page 149 The Syriack Scholiast his Reconciliation of St. Paul and James touching Justification Page 159 The Genealogy of Melchizedeck Page 160 The Position of the Syriack Scholiast dogmatically declaring That the sin of a High Priest is greater than a sin of the same kind committed either by Prince or people by him expressed in the Fourth chapter of Levit ver 3. Page 161 The Opinion of Gregorius Syrus concerning the Suns going retrograde ten degrees Page 162 Gregorius Syrus his Explication of the nature of Jephthah's Vow Page 163 Gregorius Syrus concerning Gideon's souldiers lapping the Water Page 164 The Letter of Abgarus King of Edessa to our Saviour Christ Page 165 The Answer of Christ to the Letter of Abgarus ibid. Pilate to Tiberius Caesar concerning Christ Page 166 Lentulus President of Jerusalem to the Senate and people of Rome Greeting Page 168 Dionysius Syrus his Opinion concerning the Nature of the sin against the Holy Ghost Page 169 Dionysius Syrus concerning Free-will in his Exposition on the Eighteenth chapter of Matthew ver 7. Page 172 Dionysius Syrus concerning the Woman that had six husbands John 4. Page 175 Dionysius Syrus concerning Herod's taking his Brothers Wife Page 177 Dionysius Syrus his Exposition on the withering of the Fig-tree Page 180 Dionysius Syrus his Exposition declaring sundry opinions concerning John the Baptists eating of Locusts and Honey Page 183 Dionysius Syrus concerning the darkness over the earth when our Saviour was crucified mentioned Matthew 27 Page 185 Dionysius concerning the Majesty of Christ Page 187 Dionysius Syrus his Description of the Roman Government in Judea Page 189 Dionysius Syrus his Evposition concerning the Tax made by Augustus Page 191 Introductio Dionysii Syri in Expositionem suam Quatuor Evangelistarum Page 193 ERRATA Page 68. line 28. Land for Lord. Page 158. line 2. deference for difference Page 182. line 2. branches for pranches CHAP. I. SInce that we have finished our Treatise upon Matthew the Apostle at large and therein have gathered together in Writing much of the meaning of the rest of his Fellow Evangelists In such passages whetein they agree we are to proceed to the Exposition of St. Mark and such Expositions as you shall not find on him you may be furnisht with out of what we have written on St. Matthew Let us therefore apply our selves to the occasion of the Book having confidence in God who is gracious and his mercies endure for eve● and is also able to furnish us with strength and words that we shall be able to finish this Enterprize THE EXPOSITION OF Dionysius Syrus alias Jacobus Exiguus UPON THE Gospel of St. Mark TRANSLATED BY DUDLEY LOFTUS J.U.D. Through Confidence in God the Lord of all the World assisting and strengthning us We proceed to render the sense and meaning of the Evangelist St. Mark THE EXPOSITION OF Dionysius Syrus alias Jacobus Exiguus UPON THE Gospel of St. Mark TRANSLATED BY DUDLEY LOFTUS J.V.D. Through Confidence in God the Lord of all the World assisting and strengthning us We proceed to render the sense and meaning of the Evangelist Saint Mark. CHAP. I. SInce that we have finished our Treatise upon Matthew the Apostle at large and therein have gathered together in Writing much of the meaning of the rest of his Fellow Evangelists In such passages wherein they agree we are to proceed to the Exposition of St. Mark and such Expositions as you shall not find on him you may be furnisht with out of what we have written on St. Matthew Let us therefore apply our selves to the occasion of the Book having confidence in God who is gracious and his mercies endure for ever and is also able to furnish us with strength and words that we shall be able to finish this Enterprize CHAP. II. The proper Occasion of the Book BLessed Mark was he of whom it is written in the Acts of the Apostles John who was sirnamed Mark It was he who once adhered unto Paul and Barnabas when they Preached unto the Gentiles He was of the Colledge of the Seventy two and a Disciple of St. Peter He wrote his Gospel in the Roman Tongue at Rome he wrote it briefly not but that he had enough to have written at large but that he had two Reasons to contract himself First He knew that the Romans were desirous to have received the Gospel from St. Peter The second Reason was That he might imitate his Master St. Peter who wrote his Epistles concisely in few and apt words for the Romans besought St. Peter That he would deliver in Writing the Gospel which he had Preached by word of mouth concerning those things which our Lord had done and he gave command unto Mark his Disciple to commit the same to Writing and the occasion of the Narrative was thus Because Shimeon had detected Simon the Sorcerer in Samaria he betook himself by flight unto Rome in the dayes of Claudius Caesar and by means of Sorcerie and some appearances of Fancy which he presented he became famous amongst the Romans insomuch that they erected an Image for him as if he had been a God on the brink of the River which is called Tyber because King Tyberinus was drowned therein and another for his Curtezan whose name was Sahelina and in former times had been a common Strumpet in Tyre When Shimeon had heard of this Seduction he went to Rome to detect Simon on a certain day Simon by his Sorcerie made shew of raising a dead man which was only by delusion of the fancy but Peter restored him to life in very deed in the Name of Christ The Romans then seeing the matter to be thus rose up against Simon with intention to stone him Whereupon he being enraged with anger said unto them Since that you have not approved of me I will go to my Father who is in Heaven and by his Sorcery made shew as if a fiery Chariot had snatched him up aloft And after he had mounted higher than all the sublime Buildings of Rome Peter then took courage and interdicted the Devils who bore him up and made the sign of the Cross in their sight and immediately they forsook him and fled and he fell on the earth and dyed Which being observed by the Romans they glorified God and straightway gathered up a heap of stones against Simon And Peter instructed them and built a Church which he governed for a long time and when the Romans understood that Peter was disposed to depart thence and to Preach the Gospel elsewhere they used persuasions to him That he should write a Gospel for them which he did not do for two Reasons First Because he could not attend it for he was the prime Preacher and desired to Preach unto the Jews and Gentiles Secondly

Lest the Faithful should forsake the other three Gospels and adhere to his onely as being the Chief and Primate of all the rest Moreover He did not hold himself worthy to write a Gospel because of his denial and therefore he persuaded Mark and he wrote and whatsoever he delivered by word of mouth his Disciple wrote and because Matthew had spoken of the Genealogy of Christ and his Generation according to the Flesh he took his beginning from his Baptism Others speak of another occasion Tatianus a Disciple of Justinus the Philosopher and Martyr made a Collection out of the Four Evangelists and thereof made and composed a Gospel and called it a Diateseron that is of harmonies and it was this Book which Prince Ephraim expounded it begins thus In the beginning was the Word Clemens Romanus wrote in his great Epistle against those who contemned Marriage for that married men being ordained Apostles they observed Chastity after they were made Disciples as also Moses and others who after they were thought worthy of Divine Revelations abstained from the Marriage bed Saith Clemens Do they also despise the Apostles for Peter and Philip begate children and Paul himself made no scruple to salute the Daughter of his marriage in an Epistle but he did not lead her about with him by reason of the modesty of his Ministry Whereas it is written in the Acts of the Apostles That after Peter was freed from Prison by an Angel he came to the house of Mary the Mother of John who was sirnamed Mark it is said that this Mary was the wife of Shimeon and that Mark was his Son and that the young Maiden Roda who opened unto him was his Daughter and Peter makes mention of her in his first Epistle which he wrote from Rome describing her under a figure whil'st he calls her Babel by reason of her excellency and renown The chosen Church which is in Babel saluteth you and Mark my son Peter after he was delivered out of Prison went to Antioch and in the same Year built a Church there and gave command to worship towards the East and taught that on the first day of the Week our Lord proceeded from his Mothers womb and on the same day was the Resurrection And after two Years he heard of the error of Simon and placed Evodius Bishop in Antioch as his Successor and this Bishop governed Twenty five Years but Peter went up to Rome by occasion of Simon This Simon was by Nation a Samaritan of the Town called Gathnin he was named Shimeon but Peter changed his name and called him Simon And when Peter entred into Rome he found a Dog at the gate of Simons house and said unto him Go in signifie unto Simon that Shimeon is come to the gate Again Simon spoke in the Ear of an Oxe and it was parted in two but Peter revived it Moreover some of his followers desired him to work some sign in the fight of Shimeon and it so fell out that they met with a certain dead man the son of Cyprianus one of the Magistrates of the City and Simon approached the Bier whereon he was carried and spoke many things aloud and with a low voyce but the dead man was not raised yet Peter immediately drew nigh and cryed with a loud voyce and said in the Name of Jesus Christ who hath been crucified Arise from the Bier and with these words the dead man was restored to life Whereupon the Romans rose up to stone Simon and when he made shew as if he were ascending into Heaven Peter rebuked the Devils and they forsook him so that he fell down and dyed as we said in the first occasion And when Peter had governed the Church of Rome for the space of Twenty five Years Nero commanded that he should be crucified with his Head downwards he established Bishop in his place Elius whom the Apostle mentioneth in his second Epistle to Timothy and after him succeeded Clemens for Nine Years And near the time that Peter was to be crucified the Romans urged him by many persuasions That he would write a Gospel unto them but he did not incline to their persuasion lest that the Gospel of Matthew being already written it should be thought it had been displeasing to Peter had he written another but he persuaded Mark to write unto them the deeds of our Lord his Objections and Replies whereof he omitted many and chiefly took care with much diligence to write those things which concerned Peters denial and it is possible that Peter himself excited his diligence in that particular and because Simon had Preached there that our Lord had not assumed a Body he therefore took care to write of such things as concerned his Humanity And after Mark wrote a Gospel in Rome he immediately went to Aegypt and Preached there and Established a Church in Alexandria Mark therefore is setled in a SEE We are further to know That there were Evangelists of the Twelve and of the Seventy and two according to the number of the Apostles and Evangelists but after the Apostles departed this life their Disciples carefully examined them and chose out of them four Gospels which the Church retained because they observed them to be agreeable and true and finally because they were willing to prohibit men from using multiplicity of Books because they agreed in the same mind they ordered the Apostles to begin and end as the top and foundation the other Evangelists they placed in the middle to the intent they might honour the Seventy and two They took Two Evangelists out of the Twelve and Two out of the Seventy and two Others say that this Inquisition or Examination was made in the dayes of the Apostles and that they chose two Gospels of their own and two of the Seventy and two which they ordained to be read in the Church CHAP. III. WHerefore did not Mark write the Acts of Christ one after another as did Luke We say That St. Mark did not write those things that were first done in the first place nor every thing as they succeeded one to another but after the example of Matthew observing that order wherein they seemed to adhere one to another whether they were words or actions to the intent that so far as it was possible there might be found an harmony and agreement between them but not so as to be an exact History of things done but Doctrine useful to Religion He did not write concerning Genealogies because he observed they were sufficiently Treated of by Matthew CHAP. IV. THere are in Mark Six Parables and Similitudes Twenty and two Miracles and Sixteen Testimonies which he produced in confirmation of what he said MARK Chap. I. The Beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ THE beginning of the Gospel was Baptism Moreover Basilius and Philoxenus say thus That St. Mark first used the word Evangelium or Gospel and that Baptism was the beginning of the Gospel Others say That the