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. LIV. Of Iob. (Book 54)

ABOUT Israels being in Egypt, Job lives in Arabia: a heathen man and yet so good: and so St. Gregory saith, his Country is purposely named, that the goodness of the man may be the more illustrated. His times may be picked by the genealogy of himself, and his friends that come to see him. And God in the first and second Chapter saith, that there was not a man on earth like him for goodness: which is a sign that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph, were not alive, nor Moses: but in the times 'twixt Joseph and Moses, Israel corrupt themselves with Egyptian Idols, and in Israel (the likeliest place to find a good man in) is not one to be found like Job. Thus when Israel idolizes, and the Church begins to fail in Jacob, God hath one in Arabia that hath a little Church in his house. It is not amiss for every one for his more watchfulness to mark, that Satan knows Job as soon as ever God speaks of him.

When the Angels appear before God, Satan the Devil is among them. So When the Disciples are with Christ, Judas a Devil is among them.

Pharoah in Egypt is afflicted by God. His afflictions harden him against God. Job in Arabia is afflicted by the Devil. His afflictions harden him against the Devil.

Jobs Children feasting overwhelmed by an house. The Philistins sporting, overwhelmed by an house, Judg. 16.

Job is afflicted as the souldiers, 2 King. 1. by fire.

As the Ziklagites, 1 Sam. 30. by Captivity.

As the Egyptians with loss of Children, Exod. 12.

And as the Egyptians with boils, Exod. 9.

And which was not his least cross, like Adam, with an ill counselling wife.

Job hath three with him when he is changed by affliction. So Christ hath three with him when he is changed in transfiguration: which three as they were by Christ when Moses and Elias, Law and Prophesie told him in the mount of his departing which he should accomplish at Jerusalem, Luke 9. 31. So these three were with him when he began to ac∣complish these things, Matth. 26. 37.