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. XXXVIII. from ver. 6. to the end.

[Isaac 173] [Iacob 113] [Ioseph 22] ER and Onan about this time miscarry; and Judah himself not [Isaac 174] [Iacob 114] [Ioseph 23] very long after, incestuates his own daughter-in-law, of which [Isaac 175] [Iacob 115] [Ioseph 24] incest Pharez is begotten, yet a father of Christ according to the [Isaac 176] [Iacob 116] [Ioseph 25] flesh. The story of the affairs of Judahs is laid presently after [Isaac 177] [Iacob 117] [Ioseph 26] the story of the sale of Joseph, though some things contained in it [Isaac 178] [Iacob 118] [Ioseph 27] came to pass a long time before Joseph was sold, and some after the story of the thirty ninth Chapter, that Judah requital for his sale, [for he had the chief hand in it] might be shewed assoon as his selling of him is related. Judah was married before Joseph was sold, and Er and Onan were also born before, as was ob∣served erewhile; therefore the first words of the Chapter, At

that time, are not to be referred to the next words going before in the preceding Chapter, concerning Josephs sale to Potiphar, but are of a more large extent as that Phrase, and the Phrase, In those days, are oft in Scripture: It linketh Josephs selling and Judahs miscarriages very well together, that it might be shewed how he was punished in his children, that had been so unnatural to a brother; and Josephs not sinning with his Mistress, and Judahs sinning with his daughter-in∣law, do help to set off one another towards such an observation. The four eldest sons of Jacob fell under foul guilt; and so repentance and mercy are taught and shewed in their conversion.