17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?



Ver. 17. Were there not ten cleansed?] Christ keeps count how many favours men receive from him, and will call them to a particular account thereof. He is an austere man this way.



But where are the nine?] Erasmus tells of a Popish dolt, that thought he could prove that there were ten worlds from those words of Christ, Nonne decem facit sunt mundi? Are there not ten created worlds? Another presently disproved him with the words following, Sed ubi sunt novem? But where are the nine?