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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That they might cast him down headlong.

BY what authority, or by what legal process could those of Nazareth do this? There was indeed a Court of Judicature consisting of three men, because there was a Synagogue, but it was not in the power of that Court to decree any thing in ca∣pital matters. It may be askt whether that license that was permitted the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Ze∣lots, extended thus far: e 1.1 He that steals the consecrated dishes, and curseth by a Conjurer, (that is curseth God in the name of an Idol) and goes in to an Heathen Woman (that is, openly, as Zimri, Numb. XXV. 6.) 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Zelots stay him. And the Priest that ministers in his uncleanness, his brethren the Priests beat out his brains with clubs. But doth this license of the Zelot belong to all persons upon all occasions? When Na∣thaniel said, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? He does not seem there to reflect so much upon the smallness and insignificancy of the Town, as the looseness and pravity of its manners.

Notes

• e 1.1

  Sanhedr. fol. 81. 2.