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.

VERS. XV.

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The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthali.

IT is needful, that the words of Esaiah be considered, whence these words are taken. He had been discoursing, in the eighth Chapter towards the end, concerning the straits and miseries, that compassed the Transgressors of the Law and the Testimony. To the Law and to the Testimony, &c. vers. 20. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 But if a man transgress against it (that is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Law and the Testimony) it will redound to his hard∣ship, and he shall suffer hunger, &c. vers. 21. And he shall look to the Earth, and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish, and he shall be driven to darkness, vers. 22. And then it follows, Chap. IX. 1. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 For the dimness shall not be like to that, wherein it was ill with him, at what time the former (afflicter) lightly touched the land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthali, and the latter grievously afflicted, &c. That people, who sat in darkness saw a great light, &c.

That which the Prophet means here, is this. 1. That the Contemners of Emanuel and his Testimony, that is, the Gospel, should undergo far greater calamities, than those places had undergone, either under their first Conqueror Benhadad, 1 King. XV. 20. or under the second, the King of Assyria, 2 King. XV. 29. For those places saw light at last restored to them, when the Messias preached the Gospel there. But the contemners of the Gospel are driven into eternal darkness. 2. He foretels the morning of liberty, and of Evangelical light, to arise there, where the first darkness and the calamities of their captivity had arisen. S. Matthew citing these words, that he might shew the Pro∣phesie to be fulfilled, of that light that should arise there, omits those words, which speak of their former misery, that is, the first clause of the verse, and produceth those words only, and that very fitly too, which make to his purpose, and which aim directly thither, by the Prophets intention. The Prophet Hosea affords us an instance of

curtailing a sentence after that manner, Chap. I. 11. & II. 1. When he proclaims Israel and Judah miserable, he calls them Lo-Ammi, and Lo-Ruchamah; when happy, Ammi, and Ruchamah.

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Beyond Iordan.

Not by Jordan, but beyond Jordan. For the latter Afflicter, the King of Assyria, had carried away that Country also into banishment and bonds. 1 Chron. V. 26. Here is an Ellipsis of the conjunction And.