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. XXIX.

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They have Moses and the Prophets.

THE Historical Books also are comprehended under the title of the Prophets, accor∣ding to the common acceptation of the Jews, and the reading in their Synagogues. p 1.1 All the Books of the Prophets are eight, Josua, Judges, Samuel, the Kings, Jeremy, Ezechiel, Isaiah, and the twelve. So the Gemarah also reckons them q 1.2. So we find 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Octateuch of the Prophets, as well as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Pentateuch of Moses in Photius r 1.3, of which we have spoken elsewhere.

But are the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Hagiographa excluded, when mention is made only of the Law and the Prophets? Our Saviour speaks after the usual manner of their reading Moses and the Prophets in their Synagogues; where every ordinary person, even the most rude and illiterate met with them, though he had neither Moses, nor the Prophets, nor the Hagiographa at his own house. Indeed the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or the holy Writings, were not read in the Sgnagogues (for what reason I will not dispute in this place) but they were how∣ever, far from being rejected by the people, but accounted for Divine Writings, which

may be evinced, besides other things, even from the very name. Our Saviour there∣fore makes no mention of them, not because he lightly esteems them, but because Moses and the Prophets were heard by every one, every Sabbath day, and so were not the Hagiographa.

Notes

• p 1.1

  Gloss. in Ba∣thra, fol. 13. 2.
• q 1.2

  Ibid. fol. 14. 2.
• r 1.3

  Cod. 230.