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SECT. V. Some short remarks upon Cana, Joh. II. 2.

IT is very disputable which should be the first letter of the word Cana, whether Caph, or Koph, for we find both.

I. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Kanah with the initial letter Koph, is a City in the Tribe of Aser, Josh. XIX. 28. where the Greek for Canah have 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and MS. Alex. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

II. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Kene, a word not very much differing in the sound, occurs amongst the Tal∣mudists,* 1.1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Rabbi. and his Sanhedrin having numbred votes, pronounced Keni, clean. Gloss. Keni was a place of doubtful esteem, reckoned amongst the unclean, [that is a place of the Gentiles] but in the days of R. Judah Haccodesh, it came under tryal and they pronounced it clean.

III. We find 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Josephus, but the situation not mentioned. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. a 1.2 An∣tiochus being slain, [viz. when he fought with the Arabian King] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, his Army fled to the Town Kana. This is hardly our Cana, as may in some measure appear in Josephus's Context.

IV. But further he speaks in his own life, of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Cana in Galilee. As for its situation, as far as can be collected from Josephus, we discuss that in another Treatise, and shew that it is not far from that where the River Jordan dischargeth its self into the Sea of Gennesaret; so that, between this Cana and Capernaum there seems to be almost the whole length of that Sea.

V. But it must not be forgot that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Canah beginning with the Letter Caph is met with in Juchasin b 1.3 the words these: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 In the end of the Chapter [it is these venth Chapter of Bavah Meziah] there is a Tradition. Abba Chalaphtha of Caphar Ha∣naniah, in the name of R. Meir saith, [they are in Bavah Meziah, where he is brought in and what he said c 1.4] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 It seems to me (they are the words of the Author of Juchasin) that Caphar Hananiah is Caphar Cana: as may be proved out of the ninth Chapter of the Book Sheviith: for there was the entrance of the lower Galilee.

From that place quoted in Sheviith which is Halac. 2. it plainly appears that Caphar Hananiah was in the very outmost border that divided the upper and the lower Galilee. From whence it is evident that the entrance of the lower Galilee, according to our Au∣thor, was not as we go from Samaria to Galilee, but from the upper Galilee into the lower. And whether Cana of Galilee be so called to distinguish it from that Cana that so divides between the two Galilees, or from that Cana that was in the Tribe of Aser (which may not unfitly be called Cana of the Sidonians) it is at the Reader's choice to deter∣mine.

As also why the Syriack Interpreter should in this place write 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Katna in∣stead of Cana. Whether he had in his eye or mind 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Kattath, Josh. XIX. 15. which in the vulgar dialect was called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Katanath, as the Seventy render it, and the Jerusalem Talmudists affirm d 1.5: or whether by a diminutive kind of word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Katanah, he would intimate the smallness of the Town. q. d. Cana the less.

Notes

• * 1.1

  •• In Ohaloth, cap. 18. hal. ult.
• a 1.2

  Lib. 13. cap. 23.
• b 1.3

  Fol. 57. 2.
• c 1.4

  Fol. 94. 1.
• d 1.5

  ••••••••••••. fol. ••••. 1.