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. XVI.

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Whosoever shall swear by the gold of the Temple, he is a debtor.

THESE words agree in the same sense with those of the Corban, Chap. XV. 5. We must not understand the gold of the Temple here, of that gold which shined all a∣bout in the walls and cielings; but the gold here meant is that which was offered up in the Corban. It was a common thing with them, and esteemed as nothing, to swear 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 by the Temple, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 by the Altar, which we have observed at the 31 vers. of the 5th Chap. and therefore they thought themselves not much obliged by it: But if they swore 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Corban, they supposed they were bound by an indispensable tye. For example, if any one should swear thus, By the Temple, or, By the Altar, my Money, my Cattel, my

Goods shall not profit you: It was lawful nevertheless for the swearer if he pleas'd to suf∣fer them to be profited by these: but if he should swear thus, Korban, my gold is for the Temple, Korban, my Cattel are for the Altar, this could no ways be dispensed with.