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Rh they cal the blind man, saying to him: Be of better comfort, arise, he calleth thee. Who casting of his garment leapt up, and came to him. And answering, said to him: What wilt thou that I doe unto thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabboni, that I may see. And said to him: Goe thy wayes, thy faith hath made thee safe. And forthwith he saw, and folowed him in the way.

ANNOTATIONS. X.

4. Permitted.) Some things are permitted, though not approved or allowed, to avoid greater inconveniences. No man may doe evil for any cause, but he may permit other mens evils for diverse causes: as God himself doeth, who can doe no evil. So doth the Prince and Common-wealth permit lesser evils to eschew greater, and so may the Holy Church much more (as S. Augustine saith she doeth) being placed among much chaffe and much cockle, tolerate many things: and yet whatsoever is against faith & good life, she neither approveth, nor dissembleth with silence, nor committeth.

11. And marieth another.) That which S. Matthew uttered more obscurely, and is mistaken of some, as though he meant that for fornication a man might put away his wife and mary another, is here by this Evangelist (as also by S. Luke) put out of doubt, generally avouching, that whosoever putteth away his wife and marieth another committeth advoutrie. Aug. li. 1 de adult. conjug. 6. 11 & sequentibus.

18. None is good.) None is entirely, substantially, and of himself good, but God: though by participation of Gods goodnes, men are truly also called good.

25. A rich man.) He is here called a rich man that hath his confidence (as here is expressed) in his treasure, and had rather forsake his faith and duty to God, then lose them, as al they which live in Schisme or Heresie to save their goods.

30. An hundred times so much.) Sometime God doth so blesse men also in worldly benefites that have forsaken al for him, as S. Greg. S. August. and S. Paulinus doe note: but the principal meaning is, * that he wil give to such men in this life aboundance of grace and spiritual comfort and contentation and joy of conscience (as they feele which have experience) the which spiritual giftes exceed the temporal commodities more then an hundred fold. in so much that he that hath fully forsaken but smal things for religion, would not forsake religion to have al the world.

XI.

ND when they came nigh unto Hierusalem and Bethania to Mount-olivet, he sendeth two of his Disciples, and saith to them: Goe into the towne that is against you, and immediatly entring in thither, you shal find a colt tied, upon which no man yet hath sitten: loose him, and bring him. And if any man shal say to you, what doe you? say that he is needful for our Lord: and incontinent he wil Rh