C A r.6.. ßrye ,'elation ofthe Apdcalÿpre. : called a Dimenfum, that is, a Moneths allowanceofgraine or provi- {ion. Atheneue inhis third Book teacheth more diftinetly, of how great times allowance it is, calling it a dayes nouriíhment,. that is as much as will ferve for Victuals for one day; Ariftophanes inhis Come- dy.of Wafper, brings yet a little more full light, where Philocleonup braiding-his Servants faith, whom I have taught to make ofa Cha nix fourloaves. So much corn then Both this meafure called in Greek áCh.enix contain,as would fufftce tomake foute loaves. The expo- fltor of that Poet addeth, that four great loaves were made of a Chanix, and eight little ones.- The wordcorne in generali, muff in this place be taken forPrheat, or Wheat nneale, which is dearercorne then barley, three meafüres whereofa'fe fold f&no more thenone of Wheat. Forapeny,underftand_here, let it befold, or fomefuch word, The Latine word put for a peny, is,imworth, ten of thofe pieces, which are.calledafles,that is pounds. The old writers make it equall in waight andeftimate to anstricke Drachma ; which is ofa three= fold kinde,as, fome will have it,ofwhich one is worth in our eftimate, feven pence, another eight, another ten. And thus much ofthe Corn ; as touching the reff of the viéhials; and hurt not. the Oilyand the Wine ; The Latine Tranflations reade, tranfpofing the word thus.. Themeaning is, yet fee thou hurteft not the Wine and the Oile , after the Hebrewmanner, the copulative be., ing put forthe disjunctive. Thefe Words,0ile andWine, cannot be referred to thofe things which went before. A's ifhe fhouldfay,let fuch a meafure of Wheate be fold for a Denarisu, and let threè fuch meafures Early be fold -- for a Denary; likewire let Oile and Wine be fold fora Denary ;. For the words, Oile and 14'ine, are in theaccufative cafe following the words, hurt not,or as lunins turnes it in this place, Deal not-uniufily With them: But they are not put in thenominative care going before a verbe, as the words for meafure, and meafures are.Wherefore all relief for maintainingof life,íhould not be taken away , but necefharies onely fhould be diminished. The Oile and Wine, which ferve for delight, fhould be preferved without harme, becaufe it feemed good rò God to puni(h the Leaner fort firft, the Princes and Peeres being refereed as damn ties, and kept from the Famine, for the Plague. For whom hun-` gar -could not walte, becaufe of their wealth and abundance, thofe thepeftilence fhould feed on , and thofe fhould it confum with á fwift death, as we may fee in the next:Seah Só much for the:.words. Th*
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