Commentary on the Gospels and Acts, Commentary 1 · Chapter 6 · Verse 11
Verse 11. Give us this day.]
We have not a bit of bread of our own earning, but must get our living by begging. Peter himself was to obtain his very bread by humble petition, how much more his salvation? He that shall go to God, as the Predigall did, with, Give me the portion that pertaineth to me, shall receive the … of sinne, which is eternall death. God giveth meat in … …. …. ….….(saith Elihu) That thou givest, they gather, saith David. And …,…. … 28 Thou givest them their meat in due season. Now what more … then gift? Beggers also pay no debts, but acknowledge their…. insufficiency, and speak supplications in a low language, as broken men: so must we. Oh lie daily begging at the beautifull gate of heaven: look intently upon God, as he did, Act. 3. uponforeign. Peter and John, expecting to receive something. And, because beggers must be no chusers, ask as our Saviour here directs, 1. … … opponit … libis & …, l. 1. …. 10.quality, bread only, not manchet or junkets, but down-right houshold bread (as the word imports) the bread of carefulnesse or sorrows, Psal. 127. 2. which the singing Psalms interpret, … bread. Our Saviour gave thanks for barley-bread: and his Disciples were glad to make a Sabbath-dayes-dinner of a few ears of corn rubbed between their fingers. A very Philosopher could say, He that can feed upon green herbs, need not please … se cum … esse de …, si aquam … & …. AEhan.Dionysius, need not flatter any man. And Epicurus himself would not doubt to content himself as well as he that hath most, might he but have a morsel of course meat, and a draught of cold water, The Israelites had soon enough of their quails: they had quails with a vengeance, because Manna would not content them. They died with the meat in their mouthes: and, by a hasty testament, … a new name to the place of their buriall, Kibroth-…, the graves of lust: Cibus & potus sunt divitiae Christianorum, ….saith Hierom: Meat and drink are the Christian mans riches.…. Bread and cheese (saith another) with the Gospel is good chear, … is content with a …, grace with …, saith a third.… me … vel …. ei, …. 30 8. A godly man as he asketh but for bread; so (2) for the quantity, … for daily bread, the bread of the day for the day, enough to … him … with Jacob, … much only as will bear his …, till he … again to his fathers house. He passeth thorowI he … foreign, … foreign … …. the …, as Israel thorow the …, content with his Omer … the day, with his …-measure, with his fathers …. As he journeyeth to the promised land, he bespeaks the world, as Israel did Edom, thorow whose Countrey they would…. …. 21. … & … …, Ale. …: Let me passe thorow thy land. We will not turn … the fields nor vineyards: neither will we drinke of the water of thy Wells: we will goe by the Kings-high way, until we be past thy …. foreign.And as a traveller when he cometh to his Inne, if he can… ab Ar. … ad facultates … accersitus, foreign, …, foreign … ep. get a better room or lodging, he will: as if not, he is content, for he considereth it's but for a night: So the Christian pilgrim. If God … him in a plentifull estate, he gladly makes … of it; … if otherwise he can live with a little: and if his means be not … his minde, he can bring his minde to his means, and live upon …. Give him but …, he stands not upon …. Give him but daily bread, that is, bread for necessity, … the Syriack, so much as will hold life and soul together, saithS … Panem …. Syr. Vitae conserva. … …. Brentius. Sufficient to uphold and sustain nature, saith Beza (with the Greek Scholiast) that where with our nature and … may be content, and he is … apaid and …: he cries out with Jacob, I have enough; and with David, The lines are fallen unto me in afair place. A little of the … In Annotat.turn to carry him thorow his pilgrimage: in his … house… esse possit … & …. …. he knows is bread enough, Luke 16. And on the … of that he goes on as merrily, and feeds as sweetly as … did of his honey-comb, or Hunniades, when he … with his shepherds.foreign.
This day]
Or as S. Luke hath it, by the day: for who is … of …? May not his … this night be taken from him? We … foreign, as Diogenes was wont to say of …: and should (as … speaketh of the birds and …) in diem Tur. …: 10. foreign…; taking no further thought then for the present ….… 20. foreign. The Turks never build any thing … for their own private …, but contenting themselves with … simple cottages, how mean …, commonly say, that they be good enough for the time of their short …. Turk hist. f. 342.