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. XVII.

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Two fishes.

WHAT kind of fish they were, we do not determine. That they were brought hither by a boy to be sold, together with the five loaves, we may gather from John, Chap. VI. 9. The Talmudists discourse very much of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Salt-fish. I render the word Salt-fish upon the credit of the Aruch: he citing this Tradition out of n 1.1 Beracoth, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Do they set before him first something salt, and with it a morsel? He blesseth over the salt-meat, and omits (the blessing) over the morsel, because the morsel is as it were an Ap∣pendix to it. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The Salt-meat, saith he, is to be understood of fish, as the Tradition teach∣eth, That he that vows abstinence from salt things, is restrained from nothing but from salt∣fish. Whither these were salt-fish, it were a ridiculous matter to attempt to determine; but if they were, the manner of blessing which Christ used, is worthy to be compared with that which the Tradition now alledged commands.

Notes

• n 1.1

  Chap. 6.