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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Title: 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.
Author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,; 1684.
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VERS. XXV.

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In the fourth watch of the night.

THAT is, after Cock-crowing: The Jews acknowledg only three Watches of the night; for this with them was the third, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, The Watch is the third part of the night. Thus the Gloss upon the place now cited. See also the Hebrew Commentators upon Judg. VII. 19. Not that they divided not the night into four parts, but that they esteemed the fourth part, or the Watch, not so much for the night as for the morning. So Mark XIII. 35. that space after Cock-crowing is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Morning. See also Exod. XIV. 24. There were therefore, in truth, four Watches of the night, but only three of deep night. When therefore it is said, That Gideon set upon the Midianites in the middle watch of the night, Judg. VII. 19. It is to be understood of that Watch which was indeed the second of the whole night, but the middle Watch of the deep night: namely from the ending of the first watch to midnight.