Name Fonas, * and giveth him a new Name, Cephas, which by inter. pretation doth not 11gnifie an Head, (as the Popith diſputant at By; urged to prove him the Head of the Church, as if it had been a Gre: word, and came from Kg@axay 3 Or as he pretended, ritdiculouſ enough, from an old Gre: word Ksoas) but a Stone (as this Text tells us) by which name we find him called, r Cor. 1. 12. & 2, 2, & 9. 5. & 15. 5+ Gal. 2. 9. in other places Peter, which ſignif. eth a Stone alſo, or a Rock. Ceph is a Syriack word, Peter a Gree word ; Chriſt gave him the N:zme here. e Both Cephas and Peter are by interpretation, a Stone, Beza thinks, that our Saviour did not here give him that Name, but foretei that he ſhould be fo called, Cauſabon thinks, that the Name was here given to him, and with it new Spirit; that whereas before he was (according to his Fathers Name Fonas, which ſignifies a Dove) fearful and timerous ; from this time forward he was as a Roch, ſteady, firm, and full of courageand conſtancy ; but it is a greater queſtion, how this Text is tobe re- conciled with Matth. 4. 18, 19, 20. where Andrew and Peter are both ſaid to be eſpied by Chriſt, walkbing by the Sea of Galilee ; and Luke 5.10. where Simon is reported to be called, after they had taken a great draught of Fiſh z and with Mark 3. 13. and Lule
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5. 13- whereall the Apoſtles are named, as called at one and the ſame time ; doubtleſs, the Calls were different. This in Jobn ſeems ra- ther to be a Prophecy than a Calf. Thoſe Texts, Matth. 4. 18, 1g, 20. and Zuke gs. 10. ſeem to be their Calls to a Diſcipleſhip ; the other Texts, Mark 3. 13- Luke 6. 13. reſpeRts their Eleftion to the Apoſtleſhip, and the miſſion of them.
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