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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,; 1684.
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VERS. XII.

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Much people that were come to the Feast.

IT is not greatly to our present purpose to enlarge in counting the multitude that flocked to the Passover. However, let the Reader take this story in his way and judg of it as he thinks fit.

u 1.1 King Agrippa desirous to know how great a multitude was at Jerusalem at the Passover, commanded the Priests, saying, Lay me aside one kidney of every lamb. They laid him aside six hundred thousand pair of kidnies: double the number to those that went out of Egypt: now there was not any Pascal lamb but was divided among more than ten persons. R. Chajia saith forty, nay fifty persons.—One time they went in to the mountain of the Temple, and it could not contain them. But there was a certain old man amongst them whom they trod under their feet. Wherefore they call'd that Passover the crowded Passover.

Although this be an account (according to the loose Rabbinical way of talking) that exceeds all belief or modesty, yet might the Reader without a Monitor, take notice of something in it, not unworthy observation. It is true indeed that the multitude of those that celebrated the Passover at every Feast, could hardly be number'd it was so great; yet had Jerusalem hardly ever seen such a conflux of people as was at this very Feast which we are now upon, they being gather'd thither from all Nations of the world, Act. II. for that they were at the Passover as well as at Pentecost, there are hardly any I believe but will suppose.

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u 1.1

Echah rabba∣thi, fol. 59. 1, 2.

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