Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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ARGVMENT OF THE BOOKE OF ESTHER.
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Of
the authoritie of this booke only two or three ancient writers,
doubted, before the councels of Laodicea, and Carthage declared it to
be Canonical, Al the rest did euer esteme it as diuine Scripture. note For
albeit S. Ierom in his time found not certaine partes therof in the Hebrew,
and therfore transposed the same to the end of the booke, as now we haue
them: yet in the Greeke he found al these sixtenne chapters conteyned in tenne.
And it is not vnprobable, that these parcels were sometimes in the Hebrew, as
were diuers whole bookes which are now lost. But whether they were at anie
time in the Hebrew or no, the Church of Christ accounteth the whole Booke of
infallible authoritie, reading as wel these partes, as the rest in her publique
office. And the councel of Trent (sess. 4.) For more expresse declaration
defineth that al the bookes recited in the same Decree (amongst
which is Esther) with al the partes therof, as they are accustomed
to be read in the Catholique Church, and be conteyned in the
old vulgare latin Edition, are sacred and Canonical Scripture.
It conteyneth a particular great danger of the people of Israel, hapening (as
is probable) shortly after their general relaxation, & returne of some from the
captiuitie of Babylon; and their deliuere from it, through the godlie Zele and
other vertues of Quene Esther, directed herein by Mardocheus, who being also
in imminent danger was deliuered & aduanced. and finally writ the historie.
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which may be diuided into foure partes, not by order of the chapters: as
hey are here transposed: but in order of time, first the author reporteth some
thinges going before the peoples danger, in the 11. 1. 2. 12. chapters, and part of
the 3. Secondly their danger and distresse, in the rest of the 3. and part of 13.
chapters. note note note Thirdly their deliuerie: from the 4. chapter to the middes of the. 9.
and rest of the 13. and in the 14. 15. and 16. Fourtly, the thinges that ensued
hereupon, in the other half of the ninth chapter, the 10. chapter, and first
verse of the eleuenth.
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THE BOOKE OF ESTHER
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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