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.

SECT. III. CASIOTIS.

WE now go on from Pelusium to mount Casiu••: So Pliny; From Pelusium, the trenches of f 1.1 Chabrias. Mount Casius, the Temple of Jupiter Casius. The Tomb of Pompey the Great, &c.

g 1.2 Casius was distant about CCC furlongs from Pelusium (in Antoninus it is XL miles) and the Lake of Sirbon was XXVIII miles from Casius. Thus Plinies LXV miles arise, from Pelusium to the ending of Arabia.

Casius in Ptolomy is written 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Cassion and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Cassiotis, with a double••s, and so also it is in Dion Cassius, who adds this story.

h 1.3 Pompey died at mount Cassius, on that very day whereon formerly he had triumphed over Mithridates and the Pirates. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. And when from a certain Oracle he had suspition of the Cassian Nation, no Cassian laid wait for him, but he was stain and buried at the Mountain of that name.

Those words of Moses do rack Interpreters, Exod. XVII. 16. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Jad Al Cas-jah. The LXX render it, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, The Lord wars with with a secret hand. All other versions almost render it to this sense, The hand upon the Throne of the Lord; So the Samaritan, Syrian, Arabic, Vulgar and the Rabbins, that is, God hath sworn.

What if 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Cas-jah be Casiotis? For that Country was the Country of the Edo∣mites, but especially of the Amalekites, concerning whom Moses treats in that History. We will not too boldly depart from the common consent of all, and we do modestly and humbly propound this conjecture: which if it may take any place, the words may there be rendred, without any scruple or knot, to this sense, The hand of the Lord is against Cassiotis, (the Country of the Amalekites, for) the Lord hath War with Amalek from generation to generation.

Notes

• f 1.1

  Of Chab••ias See D••od. Sic. pag. mihi 347.
• g 1.2

  Strab. ubi ante. Tabbi Asia c. 5.
• h 1.3

  Dion. ••as. lib. 42.