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. XI.

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And because they thought that the Kingdom of God should immediately appear.

g 1.1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The time draweth nigh that the Kingdom, of Heaven shall be revealed. We have observed elsewhere, that it was the Nations univer∣sal opinion, that that very time wherein Christ did appear, was the time wherein they expected the coming of Messiah, being so taught by the Prophesie of Daniel. Which however the more modern Jews would now indeavour to evade, as also other more il∣lustrious Predictions that concern our Jesus, yet were those times then more truly and more sincerely interpreted. Hence that conflux of Jews from all Nations to Jerusalem, Acts II. 5. And to this doth that in some measure attest which the Talmudists relate concerning the Paraphrast of the Prophets, that when he went about to paraphrase al∣so the Hagiographa or Holy Writings, he was forbidden by Bath Kol (a voice from Hea∣ven) saying, That he must abstain from that, for in those Books was the end of the Mes∣siah, viz. Dan. IX. 26.

Notes

• g 1.1

  Midras Schir. fol. 7. 2.