VERS. XXXVIII.

THE proper and most immediate sense of this is, where dwellest, or, where lodgest thou? But I could willingly render it, as if it had been said, Where dost thou keep thy Sabbath? and from thence conjecture that day was the evening of the Sabbath. For whereas it is said, and they abode with him that day; it would be a little hard to understand it of the day that was now almost gone, and therefore we may suppose it meant of the following day; for it is added, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, it was now the tenth hour: It was about the middle of our November, when these things fell out in Bethabarah, as will easily appear to any one that will be accurate in calculating the times, and that little that was left of that day was then the tenth hour. It was then about Sun-set, and as it were the entrance of a new day; so that it might more properly have been said, They abode with him that night, rather than that day; only the Evangelist seems to point out that they remain'd with him the next day; which that it was the Sabbath, I will not so much contend, as (not with∣out some reason) suppose.

bCesar duabus de causis, &c. Cesar for two reasons would not fight that day, partly because he had no Souldiers in the Ships, and partly because it was after the tenth hour of the day.