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. XXXVII.

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

But as the days of Noe were, &c.

THUS Peter placeth as parallels the ruine of the old World, and the ruine of Jerusalem: x 1.1 and by such a comparison his words will be best understood. For, 1. See how he skips from the mention of the death of Christ to the times before the flood, in the eighteenth and nineteenth verses, passing over all the time between. Did not the Spirit of Christ preach all along in the times under the Law? Why then doth he take an example only from the times before the flood? Namely that he might fit the mat∣ter to his case, and shew that the present state of the Jews was like theirs in the times of Noe, and that their ruine should be like also. So also in his second Epistle, Chap. III. vers. 6, 7.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 y 1.2 The age, or generation of the flood, hath no porti∣on in the World to come: thus Peter saith, that they were shut up in prison: and here our Saviour intimates, that they were buried in security, and so were surprised by the flood.

Notes

• x 1.1

  1 Pet. III. 19. 20, 21.
• y 1.2

  Sanhedr. cap. 10. hal. 2.