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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,; 1684.
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VERS. XXVII.

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The son of Rhesa, the son of Zoro∣babel, the son of Salathiel, the son of Neri.

I. THAT Pedaiah the Father of Zorobabel, 1 Chron. III. 19. is omitted here, is agreeable with Ezra V. 2. Hagg. I. 1, &c. but why it should be omitted, ei∣ther here or there, is not so easie to guess.

II. As to the variation of the names both here and 1 Chron. III. this is not unworthy our observation. That Zorobabel and his Sons, were carried out of Babylon into Judea; and possibly they might change their names, when they changed the place of their dwelling. It was not very safe for him to be known commonly by the name of Zorobabel in Babylon, when the import of that name was, the winnowing of Babel; so that he was there more generally called Sheshbazzar. But he might securely resume the name in Judea, when Cyrus, and Darius had now fanned and sifted Babylon. So his two Sons Meshullam and Hananiah, could not properly be called, one of them Abiud, the glory of my Father, and the other Rhesa, a Prince, while they were in Babylon, but in Judea, they were names sit and suitable enough.

III. Of the variation of names here, and in Matth. I. I have already spoken in that place. To wit, that Neri was indeed the Father of Salathiel; though St. Matthew saith, Jechoniah (who died childless, Jerem. XXII. 30.) begat him: not that he was his Son by nature, but was his heir in succession.