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. III.

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That which ye have spoken in the ear.

I Have elsewhere a 1.1 spoken of a Doctor whispering in the ear 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of his Interpreter; the reason of this usage is given us b 1.2 in Chagigah 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 be∣cause the Law is deliver'd silently: and the reason of this is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 it is de∣livered silently because of Satan c 1.3.

However these words are not to be understood of any such kind of whispering into the ears of the Interpreter, but concerning any matter that may have been spoken in never so much secresie and design not to have been known again. The Doctor whisper'd into the ear of the Interpreter, to that end that his disciples might publish what he had said. But here is meant, whatever any had the greatest purpose to conceal, yet God will re∣veal it; not much unlike that passage in Eccles. X. 20. Our Saviour intimates the folly as well as the wickedness of dissimulation, because in time the visor shall be taken off, and the most dissembled hypocrisie expos'd to naked view.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Notes upon Mat. X. 27.
• b 1.2

  Fol. 14. 1.
• c 1.3

  Sanhedr. fol. 26. 2.