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. I.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

He began to teach.

THAT is, he taught, by a Phrase very usual to these holy writers, because very usual to the Nation. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a 1.1 Rabh Canah began to be tedious in his oration; that is, He was tedious 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 b 1.2 That Scholar began to weep, that is, He wept. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 c 1.3 The Ox began to low, that is, He low∣ed. When the Tyrants letter was brought to the Rabbins 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 they began to weep, d 1.4 that is, They wept.

This our Evangelist useth also another word, and that numberless times almost: the others also use it, but not so frequently: namely, the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, presently; which answereth to the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Out of hand, most common among the Talmudists. We meet with it in this our Evangelist seven or eight times in the first Chapter, and else∣where very frequently: and that not seldom according to the custom of the Idiom, more than out of any necessity of the thing signified.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Hieros. San∣hed. fol. 18. 3.
• b 1.2

  Ibid. f. 23. 3.
• c 1.3

  Berish. rabb. §. 33.
• d 1.4

  Ibid. §. 64.