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.

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On whom the of Tower in Siloam fell.

THE pool of Bethesda was the pool of Siloam and from thence all that adjacent part of the City is denominated Siloam. And therefore it is left doubtful whether this Tower were built over the Pool, that is over the porches of the Pool, or stood something remote from it, in those parts that yet bore the name of Siloam. And if the article 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 does not determine the matter, we must continue still in doubt. Will Gram∣mar permit that that article should be prefixed to that part of the City? It is certain that the very Pool is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, f 1.1 The Pool of Siloam. So that I conceive this Tower might be built over the Portico's of the Pool, and might overwhelm those eighteen men while they were busied about purifying themselves (and so this event falls in the more agreeably with that of the Galileans) or as they were expecting to be healed at the troubling of the waters; For it is very uncertain at what time this Tower fell.

Notes

• f 1.1

  Joh. IX. 7, 11.