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.

SECT. IV. The Targumist on Eccles. II. 5. noted.

IT is an even lay, whether the Targumist on this place deal more cunningly, or more obscurely. The passage is about the King's Gardens: and He, I planted me all trees of Spice 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 which the Goblins and the Demons brought me out of India: and then goes on, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and the bound of it was from the wall that is in Jerusalem, by the bank of the waters of Siloam. Render 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 juxta ripam, by the bank, for illustration's sake; for ad ripam, to the bank (as the Latine Interpreter renders it) although it might signifie the same, yet it may also signifie something else, and so become a difficulty not to be resolved. Besides it is to be observed, that it is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 upon, or above, not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 unto.

The meaning of the Targumist seemeth to be this, that the King's Gardens were bounded in this manner. They extended from the descent of Zion untill they come over against Shelahh, or the lower Pool, even to the beginning of the wall of the City which is in Jerusalem; which wall runs near to the bank of the waters of Siloam.

That passage in Nehem. III. 15. illustrates this: The Gate of the Fountain repaired Shallum—and the wall of the Pool of Shelahh by the King's Gardens. The Gate of the Fountain, whether that was called so from thee Pool of Siloam, or otherwise, was at some distance from the King's Pool, Nehem. II. 14. And by the wall of the City that run be∣tween the Gate and the Pool, there was Rivulets drawn from the Fountain into that Pool.

The words of the Targumist therefore, are to be so rendred, as that the King's Gardens may not be said to extend themselves to the bank of the waters of Siloam, but that the wall of Jerusalem ran along by the bank of those waters, and the Garden to the first part

of that wall. So that he does not call the lower Pool, by the name of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Siloah, but by the waters of Siloah he understands the stream that came from the Fountain, and fell into that Pool.