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.

Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675., G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696., Strype, John, 1643-1737.

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HORAE Hebraicae & Talmudicae, OR, HEBREW AND TALMUDICAL EXERCITATIONS upon the Evangelist St. JOHN.

CHAP. XI.

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VERS. XXV.

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I am the Resurrection.

BE It so O Jew (if you will, or it can be) that the little bone Luz, in the back∣bone is the seed and principle of your resurrection: As to us our blessed Jesus, who hath raised himself from the dead, is the spring and principle of ours.

zHadrian (whose bones, may they be ground, and his name blotted out) asked R. Joshuah ben Hananiah, How doth a man revive again in the world to come? He answered and said, From Luz in the back-bone. Saith he to him, demonstrate this to me: Then he took Luz, a little bone out of the back bone, and put it in water, and it was not steeped; He put it into the fire, and it was not burnt: he brought it to the mill, and that could not grind it: He laid it on the Anvil, and knocked it with an Hammer, but the Anvil was cleft, and the Hammer broken, &c. Why do ye not maul the Sadducees with this Argument?

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