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. LVIII.

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Begged the body of Iesus.

IT was not lawful to suffer a man to hang all night upon a tree, Deut. XXI. 23. Nay, nor to lye all night unburied. :〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉

Whosoever suf∣fers a dead body to lye all night unburied, violates a negative precept; but they that were put to death by the Council were not to be buried in the Sepulchres of their fa∣thers, but two burying places were appointed by the Council, one for those that were slain by the sword and strangled; the other for those that were stoned (who also were hanged) and burnt.

There according to the custom, Jesus should have been buried, had not Joseph with a pious boldness, beg'd of Pilate that he might be more honourably Interred; which the fathers of the Council out of spight to him, would hardly have per∣mitted, if they had been asked; and yet they did not use to deny the honour of a Fune∣ral to those whom they had put to death, if the meanness of the common burial would have been a disgrace to their family. As to the dead person himself they thought it would be better for him to be treated dishonourably after death, and to be neither lamented nor buried; for this vilifying of him they fancied amounted to some attonement for him; as we have seen before. And yet to avoid the disgrace of his family, they used at the re∣quest of it to allow the honour of a funeral h 1.1.

Notes

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  See Bab. San∣hedr. fol. 46. 2. & 47. 1.