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.
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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.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
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London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,
1684.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Church of England.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- History -- 17th century.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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VERS. XVI.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
And Iesus being baptized.
I. THAT Christ conversed upon Earth two and thirty years and an half (as many years as David lived at Jerusalem: compare 2 Sam. V. 5.) is proved hence. 1. That he was baptized, when he had now compleated his twenty ninth year, and had newly begun his thirtieth. That the words of Luke imply, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉He began to be about thirty years old. Which words although they are applied by some Christians to I know not what large latitude; yet in the Jewish Schools, and among that Nation, they would not admit certainly of another sense, than we produce. For there this axiome holds :〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉m 1.1The first day of the year is reckoned for that year. And questionless Luke speaks with the vulgar. For let it be supposed, that the Evangelist uttered these words in some Jewish School, N. was baptized〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, beginning to be about thirty years old: how could it be understood by them of the thirtieth compleat? (much less of the thirty first, or thirty second, as some wrest it) When the words 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, beginning to be about, do so harmoniously agree with the said axiome, as scarcely any thing can do more clearly. 2. That from his Baptism to his cross he lived three years and an half. This is intimated by the Angel Gabriel, Dan. IX. 27. In the half of a week (that is, In three years and an half) he shall make the sacrifice and oblation to cease: and it is confirmed from the computation in the Evangelists, but especially in John, who clearly mentioneth four Passovers (Chap. II. 13. & V. 1. & VI. 4. & XIII. 1.) after his forty days fast, and not a little time spent in Galilee.
II. Therefore we suppose Christ was baptized about the feast of Tabernacles in the Month Tisri, at which time we suppose him born; and that John was born about the feast of the Passover, and at that time began to baptize. For when Christ lived two and thirty years and an half, and died at the Feast of the Passover, you must necessarily reduce his birth to the Month Tisri, and about the time of the feast of Tabernacles; and when John the Baptist was elder than he by half a year, you must necessarily suppose him born about the feast of the Passover. But of these things we have said something already.