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. XIX.

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There was a certain rich man.

WHoever believes this not to be a Parable, but a true story, let him believe also those little Friers, whose trade it is to shew the Monuments at Jerusalem to Pil∣grims, and point exactly to the place where the house of the rich Glutton stood: most acurate keepers of antiquity indeed! who after so many hundreds of yeass, such over∣throws of Jerusalem, such devastations and changes, can rake out of the rubbish the place of so private an house, and such an one too that never had any being, but meerly in Pa∣rable. And that it was a Parable, not only the consent of all Expositors may assure us, but the thing it self speaks it.

The main scope and design of it seems this, to hint the destrustion of the unbelieving Jews, who though they had Moses and the Prophets, did not believe them, nay would not believe though one (even Jesus) arose from the dead. For that conclusion of the Parable o 1.1 abundantly evidenceth what it aimed at. If they hear not Moses and the Pro∣phets, neither will they be perswaded, though one rose from the dead.

Notes

• o 1.1

  Ver. 31.