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.

Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675., G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696., Strype, John, 1643-1737.

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HORAE Hebraicae & Talmudicae, OR, HEBREW AND TALMUDIC EXERCITATIONS upon the Gospel of St. MARK.

CHAP. IX.

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VERS. XXXVIII.

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We saw one in thy name casting out Devils.

I. WIthout doubt he truly did this work, whosoever he were. He cast out Devils truly and really, and that by the divine power, otherwise Christ had not said those things which he did, Forbid him not: there is no man that doth a miracle in my name, who can speak evil of me, &c.

II. Whence then could any one, that followed not Christ, cast out Devils? Or whence could any one that cast out Devils, not follow Christ?

I answer. We suppose

I. That this man cast not out Devils in the name of Jesus, but in the name of Christ, or Messias: and that it was not out of contempt that he followed not Jesus, but out of ignorance; namely, because he knew not yet that Jesus was the Messias.

II. We therefore conjecture, that he had been heretofore some Disciple of John, who had received his Baptism in the name of the Messias now speedily to come (which all the Disciples of John had) but he knew not as yet, that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messias: which John himself knew not, until it was revealed to him from Heaven.

III. It is probable therefore, that God granted the gifts of miracles to some lately baptized by John, to do them in the name of the Messias; and that to lay a plainer way for the receiving of the Messias, when he should manifest himself under the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

See Vers. 41. In my name 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Because ye belong to Christ: and Chap. XIII. 6. Many shall come in my name, not in the name of Jesus, but in the name of the Messias: for those false Prophets assumed to themselves the name of the Messias, to bring to naught the name of Jesus. That Joh. XVI. 24. Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name, dif∣fers not much from this sense. The Apostles poured out their prayers, and all the holy men theirs, in the name of the Messias, but ye have as yet asked nothing in my name Jesus, &c.

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