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. IV.

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

They uncovered the roof, &c.

HERE I recollect that phrase 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The way of the roof. a 1.1 When Rabh Honna was dead, his Bier could not be carried out through the door, the door being too straite, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Therefore they thought good to draw it out and let it down through the roof, or (through the way of the roof.) But Rabh Chasda said to them, Behold, we have learned from him, That it redounds to the honour of a wise man to be carried out by the door.

It b 1.2 is written, And they shall eat within thy gaies (Deut. XXVI. 12.) that is, when the entrance into the house is by the gate. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 To except the way through the roof. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 c 1.3 Does he enter into the house, using the way through the gate? or using the way through the roof? The place treats of an House, in the lower part of which the Owner dwels, but the upper part, that which is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, is let out to another. It is asked, What way he must enter, who dwells in an upper room, whe∣ther by the door, and the lower parts, where the Owner dwels? Or whether he must climb up to the roof 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 by the way to the roof: that is, as the Gloss hath it, That he ascend without the house by a ladder set against it, for entrance into the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Upper Room, and so go into the Upper Room.

By ladders set up or perhaps fastned there before, they first draw up this Parylitic 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, upon the Roof, Luke V. 19. Then seeing there was a door in every roof, through which they went up from the lower parts of the house into the roof, and this being too narrow to let down the bed and the sick man in it, they widen that space by pulling off the tiles that lay about it.

Well: having made a hole through the roof, the Paralitic is let down 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Into the Upper Chamber. There Christ sits, and the Pharisees, and the Doctors of the Law with him, and not in the lower parts of the house. For it was customary for them, when they discoursed of the Law or Religion, to go up into the Upper Chamber.

d 1.4 These are the Traditions, which they taught 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 In the Upper Chamber of Hanani∣ah, ben Hezekiah, ben Garon. e 1.5 The Elders went up 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 into an Upper Chamber in Je∣richo. They went up also into an Upper Chamber in Jabneh. Rab. Jochanan and his Dis∣ciples went up 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to an Upper Chamber, and read and expounded. Compare Mark XIV. 15. Act. I. 13. and XX. 8.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Bab. Mo••d Katon, fol. 25. 1.
• b 1.2

  Bava Mezia, fol. 88. 1.
• c 1.3

  Ibid. s. 117. 1.
• d 1.4

  Schabb. cap. 1. hal 7.
• e 1.5

  Hieros. San∣hedr. fol. 24. 3.