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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Subject terms: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.; Church of England.; Theology -- Early works to 1800.; Theology -- History -- 17th century.
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VERS. VI.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c.

It were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck, &c.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 It is good for him, in Talmudick Language.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 seems to be said in distinction from those very small Mills wherewith they were wont to grind the spices that were either to be applied to the wound of Cir∣cumcision, or to be added to the delights of the Sabbath. Hence the Gloss of R. Solo∣mon upon Jer. XXV. 10. The sound of Mills and the light of the candle: the sound of Mills, saith he, wherewith spices were ground and bruised, for the healing of Circum∣cision.

That Christ here speaks of a kind of death, perhaps, no where, certainly never used among the Jews; he does it, either to aggravate the thing, or in allusion to drowning in the dead Sea, in which one cannot be drowned without some weight hung to him: and in which to drown any thing, by a common manner of speech, implied, to devote to rejection, hatred and execration; which we have observed elswhere.