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. XXVII.

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What ye hear in the ear.

WE have observed before, that allusion is here made to the manner of the Schools, where the Doctor whispered out of the Chair, into the ear of the Interpreter, and he, with a loud voice, repeated to the whole School, that which was spoken in the ear.

m 1.1 They said to Judah bar Nachmani 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the interpreter of Resh La∣chish 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 do you stand for his Expositor. The Gloss is, To t••ll out the Exposition to the Synagogue. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 which he shall whisper to you. We cannot here but repeat that which we produced before, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The Doctor whispered him in the ear, in Hebrew. And we cannot but suspect that that custom in the Church of Corinth, which the Apostle reproves, of speaking in the Synagogue in an un∣known tongue, were some footsteps of this Custom.

We read of whispering in the ear, done in another sense, namely to a certain woman with child, which longed for the perfumed flesh; n 1.2 Therefore Rabbi said 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Go whisper her, that it is the day of expiation 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 They whispered to her, and she was whispered: that is, she was satisfied and at quiet.

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Preach ye upon the house tops.

Perhaps allusion is made to that Custom, o 1.3 when the Minister of the Synagogue, on the Sabbath Eve, sounded with a trumpet, six times, upon the roof of an exceed∣ing high house, that thence, all might have notice of the coming in of the Sabbath. The first sound was, that they should cease from their works in the fields: The second, that they should cease from theirs in the City: The third, that they should light the Sabbath Candle, &c.

Notes

• m 1.1

  Bab. Sanhedr. fol. 7. 2.
• n 1.2

  Bab. Jo••a, fol. 82. 2.
• o 1.3

  Bab. Schabb. fol. 35. 2.