Fathers? 50And they understood not the word that he spake unto them. 51And he went downe with them, and came to Nazareth: and was ″ subject to them. And his mother kept al these words in her hart. 52And Jesus proceeded in wisedom and age, and grace with God and men.✠
ANNOTATIONS.
Chap. II.
Free wil.14. Men of good wil.) The birth of Christ giveth not peace of minde or salvation but to such as be of good wil, because he worketh not our good against our willes, but our willes concurring. Aug. quæst. ad Simplic. li. 1. q. 2. to. 4.
Our B. Lady ful of deepe contemplations.19. Kept al.) Our Lady though litle be spoken of her concerning such matters in the Scriptures, because she was a woman, and not admitted to teach or dispute in publick of high mysteries; yet she knew al these mysteries, and wisely noted and contemplated of those things that were done and said about Christ, from the first houre of his Conception til the end of his life and his Ascension.
Mens ruine and damnation is of them selves.34. To the ruine.) Therfore to the ruine of some, because they would not beleeve in him, and so were the cause of their owne ruine, as he is elswhere called, 1 Pet. 2, 8.A stumbling stone, because many would stumble at him and so fal by their owne fault. Othersome he raised by grace from sinne to justice, and so he was the resurrection of many. The Apostle useth the like speach, saying: 2 Cor. 2, 16.We are to some the odour of life, unto life: to others, the odour of death unto death. Not that their preaching was to cause death, but because they that would not beleeve their preaching, wilfully incurred deadly sinne and damnation.
Holy widowhood.37. A widow.) Marke that widowhood is here mentioned to the commendation thereof even in the old Testament also, and the fruit, and as it were the profession thereof, is here commended, to wit, fasting, praying, being continually in the Temple even as S. Paul more at large for the state of the new Testament I. Cor. 7.
I Tim. 5.speaketh of widowhood & virginitie, as being professions more apt and commodious for the service of God.
Fasting an act of Religion.37. By fastings and prayers serving.) Serving, in the Greeke is λατρευουσα, that is, doing divine worship unto God, as by praier, so also by fasting: so that fasting is λατρεια, that is, an act of Religion whereby we doe worship God, as we doe by prayer, and not used only to subdue our flesh, much lesse (as Heretikes would have it) as a matter of pollicie.
Dutiful obedience to parents.51. Subject to them.) Al children may learne hereby, that great ought to be their subjection and obedience to their Parents, when Christ himself, being God, would be subject to his parents being but his creatures.
Chap. III.
The second part: The preparation that was made to the manifestation of Christ.
The Ghospel upon Imber Saturday in Advent. And on the 4. Sunday in Advent.AND in the fifteenth yeare of the empire of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being Governour of Jewrie, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother Tetrarch of Ituréa and the countrie Trachonitis, and Lysanias Tetrarch of Abilina,
