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SECT. III. Gadara and Hippo Cities of Decapolis.

SO Pliny and Josephus in the words lately alledged out of them: and so the Evan∣gelists not obscurely concerning Gadara. For Mark saith, He began to preach in Decapolis; Luke, He departed preaching throughout all the City of Gadara.

And that Gadara was of Heathen jurisdiction, besides what may be gathered out of those words of Josephus, may be made out also from thence, that Hogs were kept there in so great a number, (Mat. VIII.) the keeping of which was forbidden the Jews by the Talmudic Canons, as well as the eating them by the Mosaic Law. Hence in our notes on Mark V. we are not affraid to pronounce that possessed Gadaren to be a Hea∣then; and that if our conjecture sail us not, upon good grounds.

That Hippo also was of Heathen jurisdiction, the testimonies of the Jews concerning the City Susitha, may sufficiently argue: which as it is of the same signification with the word Hippo, so without all doubt, it is the same place. So they write of its Heathenism.

The i 1.1 Land Jobh, to which Jephta fled, is Susitha. And why is the name of it called Tobh, (that is, good) Because it is free from tithes. And whence came it to be free from tithe? Because it was of Heathen possession. For there was no tithing without the Land, that is, out of any place, which belonged to the Heathen. And again, If two l 1.2 witnesses come forth out of a City, the greater part of which consists of Gentiles, as Su∣sitha, &c.

Notes

• i 1.1

  Hieros. She∣viith, f. 36. 1.
• l 1.2

  Id. Rosh. ha∣shana, fol. 54. 4.