The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§. By the way of the Sea.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in the Greek: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 being understood according to an usual Hebrew Idiom: In the Text of the Prophet this clause and the rest that follow, lie in this sense: The latter Captiver did heavily afflict the way of the Sea, or those places that lay upon the Sea coast; he did heavily afflict the coast beyond Jordan, and he did heavily afflict Galilee of the Gentiles. But in the Text of the Evangelist it is sweetly changed to this comfortable tune: The land of Zabulon and Nephthali, which are by the way of Sea, or on the Sea-coasts, And also Peraea, or the Country which lies beyond Jordan: and likewise Galilee of the Gentiles, or the upper Galilee, even the people of all these several places saw great light, &c. And thus the clauses of the Text being severed and considered apart, as they ought to be, (for there is only a want of the conjunction, which is a thing most usual in the He∣brew tongue) the sense lies clear and facil; where as some expositors jumbling them al∣together as if they spake but of one place, have intricated and perplexed the sense, and have been necessitated to make bold with the language to put a construction upon some part of it, which it is very unwilling and not used to bear. And so they will have 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to be not trans but secus Jordanem, and to be the land of Zabulon and Nephthali: and Galilee of the Gentiles to be the land of Zabulon and Nephthali too, and they clutter all together in the land of Zabulon and Nephthali; not distinguishing where they should distinguish, between Galilee superior (or Galilee of the Gentiles,) and Galilee inferior (or the land of Zabulon and Nephthali) and Peraea (or the Country and Region of the two Tribes and half that lay beyond Jordan) In these three several Regions had the captiver afflicted, and captivity had begun: In Galilee Superior or Galilee of the Gentiles at the ta∣king of Jion, Dan, Abel-beth-Maachah, &c. In the lower Galilee at the taking all Neph∣thali; and in the Country beyond Jordan in the taking of Gilead, and carrying away the Reubenites, Gadites, and half Tribe of Manasseh: as the Texts alledged ere while do give testimony: And answerably, in these three Regions did the Gospel appear most radiantly, even in Christs own Ministry and his presence there, as may be observed copiously in the Evangelists.

The Chaldee Paraphrast translates this passage of the Prophet exceeding strangely, he gives it thus: For none shall be weary that shall come to afflict them, as at the first time the People of the land of Zabulon and the people of the land of Nephthali were captived: and as for the rest a mighty King shall captive them, because they remembred not the mighty power at the Sea, the wonders at Jordan, and the war with the Cities of the Nations. The people of the House of Israel, that walked in Aegypt as in darkness, came forth to see a great light, &c. How the Septuagint hath spoiled the sense of the verse in the Prophet, by pulling it too much in pieces, as many expositors have done by crowding it too much together, I shall not trouble the Reader with instance, the learned will observe it of themselves.