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.

CHAP. XI.

VERS. II.

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And when he had looked round about upon all things.

COmpare Mark with the other Evangelists concerning the time of casting out the Merchants out of the Temple, and it will appear that the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 he looked about, denotes not a bare beholding or looking upon, but a beholding with reproof and correction, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Admonition, among the Jews.

VERS. XIII.

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For the time of figs was not yet.

SEE what we have said at Matth. XXI. 19. The sum is this.

• I. The time of Figs was so far off, that the time of leaves was scarcely yet present.
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• II. The other Fig-trees in the Mount were of the common kind of Fig-trees: and on them were not leaves as yet to be seen. But that which Christ saw with leaves on it, and therefore went to it, was a Fig-tree of an extraordinary kind.
• III. For there was a certain Fig-tree called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Benoth Shuach, which never wanted leaves, and never wanted Figs. For every year it bare fruit, but that fruit came not to full ripeness before the third year. And such we suppose was this Fig-tree.

VERS. XVI.

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And would not suffer, that any should carry any Vessel through the Temple.

a 1.1 WHAT is the Reverence of the Temple? That none go into the Mountain of the Temple, (or, the Court of the Gentiles) with his staff, and his shoes, with his purse, and dust upon his feet 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 And that none make it his common tho∣row-fare, nor make it a place of spitting.

The same thing is ordered concerning a Synagogue; yea concerning a Synagogue that is now laid waste, much more of one that flourisheth. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 b 1.2 A Synagogue now laid waste let not men make it a common passage. And, c 1.3 His Disciples asked R. Eleazar ben Shammua, Whence hast thou lived so long? He answered, I never made a Synagogue a com∣month orow-fare.

It is therefore forbid by the Masters, that the Court of the Temple be not made a pas∣sage, for a shorter way. And was not this bridle sufficient, wherewith all might be kept back from carrying Vessels through the Temple? But the Castel of Antonia joyned to the Court; and there were Shops in the Court of the Gentiles, where many things were sold, and that prophane Vessels were brought hither, is scarcely to be denied. And these Vessels might be said to be carried 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Through the Temple; although those that carried them went not through the whole Temple.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Bab. Ieva∣moth. fol. 6. 2.
• b 1.2

  Megill. f. 28. 1.
• c 1.3

  Fol. 27. 2.