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.

§ About the ninth hour.

The hour of the evening sacrifice, three a clock after noon: compare Dan. 5. 21. Cor∣nelius though he were not yet proselyted by circumcision to the Jewish Church, yet fol∣lowed he their manner and form of worship.

Vers. 9. To pray, about the sixth hour.

About twelve a clock or high noon, and this was the time of the Minchah gedolah as the Jews called it, or the very beginning of it: And so do they expound, Dan. 6. 10. and Psal. 55. 17. accordingly. Daniel prayed three times a day, that is, say R. Saadias and R. Solomon, Morning, Evening, and at the Minchah. And Evening and Morning, and at noon will I pray, R. Sol. Evening, Morning and at Minchah, the three times of pray∣er: Now this Minchah time is described by their Doctors thus, Minchah gedolah, is the beginning of the time of the dayly sacrifice between the two Evenings, when the Sun begins to decline: which is from the sixth hour and forward until night, some say, from the sixth hour and an half, which was according to our Phrase in hand about the sixth hour: Now this their accounting was not for that they always began to fall about their evening sacri∣fice at twelve a clock, or half an hour after, but because that it was lawful then to be∣gin to fall about it; for when there were additional sacrifices besides the dayly, as the Passover, or the like, then it was necessary for them to begin to prepare the sacrifices from that time, that it was lawful to begin about them; which from that time of the day it was, all the time from thence forward till night being 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 between the Eve∣nings, according to the letter of the Law, Exod. 12. 6. Numb. 28. 4. And to this sense speaketh the Text, 1 King. 18. 19. When noontide was passed, and they had now prophe∣cied till the offering of the Minchah: not till the very time of the very firing of the sa∣crifice, for that the verses following deny: but to the time of the Minchah in that sense that we have in hand: and to this purpose the difference of the words 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 here and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Vers. 36. is very remarkable.

So that Peter in this practise of praying about the sixth hour intimated the custom of the Jews, and though he had so long been a Convert to the Gospel, yet doth he not forsake their manner of worship: no more did the other Disciples, as hath been shewed elsewhere.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. An extasie fell upon him, and so Chap. 22. 17. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, I was in an extasie: This was the highest and excellentest way of all other, of revela∣tions; when a man was rapt even from himself into heaven: for so Paul calls it, 2 Cor. 12. 2. and was wholly in the spirit, for so John calls it, Rev, 1. 10. being for the time as it were out of the body, and in the very next degree to souls departed, enjoying God. Seven manner of extraordinary ways did God use to reveal himself and his will to his people in ancient times. 1. By Dreams. 2. By Apparitions when they were awake. 3. By Visions when they were asleep. 4. By Voyce from heaven. 5. By Urim. 6. By Inspiration, or Revealing of the ear. 7. By Rapture or Extasie: and this last the excellentest, as to him that did injoy it. And of this should I understand that deep sleep that fell upon Adam, Gen. 2. 21.

Vers. 12. Fourfooted Beasts and wild Beasts.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Beasts tame and wild, for so doth the Scripture most frequently distinguish them.

Vers. 15. That call not thou common.

Gr. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: Do not thou pollute, that is, do not thou call or account polluted, Vers. 28. For so is the use of Scripture very frequently, to speak as in an effective or active sense, and to intend only a declarative, as Gen. 41. 13. Me he restored to my office, but him he hanged, Ezek. 43. 3. When I came to destroy the City: The Priest did make clean, or make unclean the Leper, Lev. 13. 6. 8. &c. which was only pronouncing clean or un∣clean, as our English hath well rendred it: or teaching what was clean and what un∣clean, as Chap. 14. 57. And in the very same sense is the binding and loosing to be un∣derstood, Matth. 16. 19. and 18 18. for teaching what is bound and what loose, what 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and what 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as the Jews speak, or what lawful, what unlawful.

Vers. 28. Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Iew to keep company, &c.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. By which words is not to be understood as if a Jew might have no dealing at all with a Gentile, for they might walk, and talk, and traffick with

them, and it was within a little of impossible to do otherwise, they living exceeding many of them in heathen Cities: And Gentiles came continually in way of trade to Je∣rusalem, Neh. 13. 16. But the unlawfulness of their conversing with the Gentiles, was con∣versing in near and more close society, as the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 signifieth, and that especi∣ally in these two things, not to eat with them, and not to go into their houses: And this is that for which they of the Circumcision excepted at Peter upon his return. Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them, Chap. 11. 3.