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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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.
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London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,
1684.
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Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Church of England.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- History -- 17th century.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2025.
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VERS. LI.
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When the time was come that he should be received up.
IT is a difficulty amongst some why there should be any mention 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, of his receiving up, when there is no mention of his death. But let it be only granted that under that expression 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is included the ascension of Christ, and then the difficulty is solved: The Evangelist seeming from thence to calculate. Moses and Elias had spoken of his departure out of this world; that is, of his final departure, when he took leave of it at his ascension into heaven: And from thence forward, till the time
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should come wherein he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face toward Jerusa∣lem, resolving with himself to be present at all the Feasts that should precede his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or receiving up.
He goes therefore to the Feast of Tabernacles, and what he did there, we have it told us John VII. After ten weeks or thereabout, he went up to the Feast of Dedication, Chap. XIII. 22. and Joh. X. 22. and at length to the last Feast of all, his own Passover, Chap. XVII. 11.
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