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.

§. 2. The affairs of the Jews in Alexandria, and Babylonia.

The death of Caius was an allay to the troubles of the Jews both in Judea and Alex∣andria, and the proclamation of Claudius which we shall hear of the next year, was their utter cessation for the present, but so it was not in Babylonia. The terror and trouble that had seized Judea, about the statue of Caesar, was removed, and extinct with the removal, and extinction of Caesar himself, so were the pressures of them in Alexandria mitigated much from what they were before, though their commotions and troubling continued still in an equal measure. For whereas before the displea∣sure of the Emperor lay so heavy upon them that they neither could nor durst stand out in their own defence, when that burden is now removed they gather heart and metal, and now though the Greeks and they be continually at daggers drawn, yet now it is up∣on equal terms, and they dare strike as well as the other. But in Babylonia and there∣about, their miseries is but now a brewing, and an equal strait is preparing for them, as had been to either of the other, though it began with some smiling of a seeming happi∣ness, and the sunshine of present prosperity. The bloodhound of vengeance was to hunt this Nation, and not to be taken off till it was destroyed: and therefore when it giveth off the quest in one place, it takes it in another, and leaveth not their footing till it had left them no footing at all.

Those Jews whose Tragedy we have seen acted already found their own misery, though they sought it not, and how much more shall they that we are now to bring upon the scene that sought and wooed it with their utmost pains.