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. XXII.

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A woman of Canaan.

IN Mark it is, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, A Greek woman, a Syrophenician by Na∣tion? Chap. VII. 26.

I. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, of Canaan. It is worthy observing, that the Holy Bible, reckoning up 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The seven Nations which were to be destroyed by the Israelites, names the Pe∣rizzites, who were not at all recited among the Sons of Canaan, Gen. X. and the Cana∣anites as a particular Nation, when all the seven indeed were Canaanites. See Deut. VII. 1. Josh. IX. 1. & XI. 3. Judg. III. 5, &c.

The reason of the latter, (with which our business is) is to be fetched thence, that Canaan himself inhabited a peculiar part of that (Northern) Country, with his first born Sons, Sidon and Heth, and thence the name of Canaanites was put upon that particular progeny, distinguished from all his other Sons; and that Country was peculiarly called by the name of Canaan, distinctly from all the rest of the land of Canaan. Hence Jabin the King of Hazor is called the King of Canaan, Judg. IV. 2. and the Kings of Tyre and Sidon, if I mistake not, are called the Kings of the Hittites, 1 King. X. 29.

II. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, A Greek woman, a Syrophenician. Although Judea, and al∣most the whole World, had now a long while stooped under the yoak of the Romans, yet the memory of the Syro-grecian Kingdom, and the name of the Nation, was not yet va∣nished. And that is worthy to be noted, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 t 1.1 In the cap∣tivity they compute the years only from the Kingdom of the Greeks. They said before, u 1.2 That the Romans for a hundred and fourscore years ruled over the Jews before the destruction of the Temple; and yet they do not compute the times to that destruction, by the years of the Romans, but by the years of the Greeks. Let the Jews themselves well consider this, and the Christians with them, who reckon the Roman for the fourth Monarchy in Daniel.

Therefore that woman that is here spoken of, to reduce all into a short conclusion, was a Syro-grecian by Nation, a Phenician in respect of her habitation, and from thence called a woman of Canaan.

Notes

• t 1.1

  Bab. Avodah Zarah, fol. 10. 1.
• u 1.2

  Fol. 8. 2.