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.

VERS. XXXIX.

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For he hath been dead four days.

THE three days of weeping were now past: and the four days of Lamentation be∣gun: so that all hope and expectation of his coming to himself was wholly gone.

b 1.1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 They go to the Sepulchres, and visit the dead for three days. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Neither are they solicitous lest they should incur the reproach of the Amorites. The story is, they visited a certain person, and he revived again, and lived five and twenty years and then dyed. They tell of another that lived again, and begot Chil∣dren, and then died.

c 1.2 It is a Tradition of Ben Kaphrae's: The very height of mourning is not till the third day, For three days the spirit wanders about the Sepulchre, expecting if it may return into the body. But when it sees that the form or aspect of the face is changed, then it hovers no more, but leaves the body to its self.

d They do not certifie of the dead, [that this is the very man and not another] but with∣in* 1.3 the three days after his decease. For after three days his countenance is changed.

Notes

• b 1.1

  Massecheth Se∣macoth, cap. 8.
• c 1.2

  Beresh. rabba, fol. 114. 3.
• * 1.3

  c Jevamoth, fol. 120. 1. & Mai∣mo••. in Geru∣shin, cap. 13.