HOLY weeke.
If any man aske (saith S. Augustine) why they could not beleeue: I answer roundly, because they would not Tract. 33. in Io. See the meaning of this speach Annot. Mat. 13,15. Mr. 4,12.
This is the case of many principal men in such countries where heresie hath the vpper hand, who know & beleeue the Catholike faith; but making choise rather to keepe mans fauour then Gods, they dare not confesse the same. Such may pray that God and the world agree together: for els it is seen whose part they wil take.
Church ornaments.
Toleration of the euil.
keth in darkenesse, knoweth not whither he goeth. 36. Whiles you haue the light, beleeue in the light, that you may be the children of light. These things Jesus spake and he went away, and hid himself from them.
37. And whereas he had done so many signes before them, they beleeued not in him: 38. that the saying of Esay the Prophet might be fulfilled, which he said: Lord, who hath beleeued the hearing of vs? 39. and the arme of our Lord to whom hath it beene reuealed? 40. Therfore they could not beleeue, because Esay said againe: He hath blinded their eyes, and indurated their hart: that they may not see with their eyes, nor vnderstand with their hart, and be conuerted, and I heale them. 41. These things said Esaie, when he saw his glorie, & spake of him. 42. But yet of the Princes also many beleeued in him: but for the Pharisees they did not confesse, that they might not be cast out of the Synagogue. 43. For they loued the glorie of men more, then the glorie of God.
44. But Jesus cried, and said: He that beleeueth in me, doth not beleeue in me, but in him that sent me. 45. And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. 46. I a light am come into this world: that euery one which beleeueth in me, may not remaine in darkenesse. 47. And if any man heare my wordes, and keepe them not: I doe not iudge him. For I came not the iudge the world, but to saue the world. 48. He that despiseth me, & receiueth not my wordes, hath that iudgeth him. the word that I haue spoken, that shal iudge him in the last day. 49. Because of my self I haue not spoken, but the Father that sent me, he gaue me commandement what I should say, and what I should speake. 50. And I know that this commandement is life euerlasting. The things therfore that I speake: as the Father said to me, so doe I speake.
ANNOTATIONS.
Chap. XII.
5. Why was. ) So wicked, couetous, and sacrilegious persons reprehend good men for bestowing their goods vpon Church ornaments &c. vnder pretence of better bestowing them on the poore: such prouide for the poore as Iudas did.
6. A theefe. ) Iudas did not then first perish when he sould our Lord, for he was a theefe before: and being lost he yet followed Christ, not in hart, but in body only. Which our Maister tolerated, to giue vs a lesson to tolerate the il, rather then deuide the body. Aug. tract. 50. in Io.
Es. 53, 1
Esa. 6,9. Mt. 13.14 Mr. 4, 12. Lu. 8.10. Act 28,27.
