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.

CHAP. XXV. Ver. 11. and from Ver. 19. to the end.

[World 2168] [Eber 445] [Abraham 160] [Ismael 74] [Isaac 60] JACOB and Esau born; first he that was natu∣ral, [Abraham 161] [Ismael 75] [Isaac 61] [Iacob 1] and then he that was spiritual: These children [Abraham 162] [Ismael 75] [Isaac 61] [Iacob 2] strove in the womb, and Rebeccah inquired after the [Abraham 163] [Ismael 77] [Isaac 63] [Iacob 3] cause, and the Lord by an oracle, it is like by Abrahams [Abraham 164] [Ismael 78] [Isaac 64] [Iacob 4] oracle at Beersheba, resolves her of the difference of the [Abraham 165] [Ismael 79] [Isaac 65] [Iacob 5] children, and of the Nations that should descend of [Abraham 166] [Ismael 80] [Isaac 66] [Iacob 6] them. Esau is born all hairy over like a kid, a strange [Abraham 167] [Ismael 81] [Isaac 67] [Iacob 7] birth; and he is therefore named Esau, that is, Made: [Abraham 168] [Ismael 82] [Isaac 68] [Iacob 8] for he had his beard and his pubes now even from the [Abraham 169] [Ismael 83] [Isaac 69] [Iacob 9] birth, as if he had been a mature man. The story is [Abraham 170] [Ismael 84] [Isaac 70] [Iacob 10] now to fall upon the acts of Isaac and Jacob, and there∣fore

in this Chapter it concludes the story of Abraham and Ismael, reckoneth up the tearm of their lives, and mentioneth their deaths by anticipation: the Reader [Abrah. 171] [Ismael 85] [Isaac 71] [Iacob 11] will readily reduce the Texts that mention these, to [Abrah. 172] [Ismael 86] [Isaac 72] [Iacob 12] their proper time; it is most usual in Scripture thus [Abrah. 173] [Ismael 87] [Isaac 73] [Iacob 13] to do, in reckoning up mens ages: as, Genesis 5. and [Abrah. 174] [Ismael 88] [Isaac 74] [Iacob 14] 11. &c.

ABRAHAM dieth; here read Gen. 25. vers. 7, 8, 9, 10. Isaac is of the very same age when Abraham dieth, that Abraham was when the Promise came to him, viz. seventy five years old. The Promise now is come upon Isaac.

EBER dieth; read Gen. 11. 17. He was the longest liver born since the Flood; the father of the Hebrews, and denominator of the Hebrew Tongue: Religion staid in his family, when all the world lost it beside; and he liveth to see it gloriously setled in the families of Abraham and Isaac.