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.
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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.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
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London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,
1684.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Church of England.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- History -- 17th century.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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VERS. I.
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Seventy.
WHY the Vulgar should have seventy and two, they themselves, I suppose are able to give no very good reason. Much less the Interpreter of Titus Bostrensis when in the Greek Copy before him he saw only 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, why he should render Septuaginta duos, seventy two, who can tell?
Aben Ezra upon the story of Eldad and Medada 1.1 hath this passage: The wise men say, that Moses took six out of every tribe, and the whole number amounted to seventy and two: but whereas the Lord had commanded only seventy, the odd two were laid aside. Now if God laid aside two of those who had been enrolled, and endowed with the Holy Spirit,
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that so there might be the just number of seventy only, we can hardly imagine why our Saviour should add two, to make it LXXII and not LXX. d 1.2It was said to Moses at Mount Sinai, Go up thou and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the Elders of Israel: so will the holy blessed God ordain to himself in the world to come〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉a coun∣sel of Elders of his own people. Now the number of this Consistory, the Doctors determine to be no other than seventy. A Council of Seventy two was never heard of amongst the Jews, but once only at Jabneh.
a 1.3R. Simeon ben Azzai saith〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉I receiv'd it from the mouths of the LXXII Elders, on the day when they made R. Eliezar ben Azariah one of the Sanhedrin. Nor did they then remove Rabban Gamaliel, although he had displeas'd them.