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. XXIV.

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But Thomas called Dydimus was not with them.

I. THE Evangelist does not here, as the writers of Lexicons render the signification of an Hebrew name into Greek, when he tells us that Thomas is also called Didy∣mus, but only lets us know that as he was called Thomas among the Hebrews, so was he called Didymus among the Greeks. There is not another amongst the Twelve Apostles of whom this is said. Simon indeed is called Peter, but these are really two distinct names; so was Nathanael called Bartholomew; but Thomas and Didymus both one name, of one sig∣nification in different languages. Perhaps Thomas was born in some place where the Jews and the Greeks promiscuously inhabited, such a place was the region of Decapolis, and so by the Hebrews he might be call'd by his Hebrew name, and the Greek by the Greeks.

II. The Disciples had all fled and were dispers'd when Christ was apprehended, Mark XIV. 50. except Peter and John; whence it is said in ver. 2. of this Chapter that Mary Magdalene came to Peter, and that other Disciple whom Jesus loved; for she knew where she might find them, and so she could not for the rest. And thus scatter'd, as it should seem, they past over the Sabbath-day, but when they heard that their Lord was risen, then they begin to associate again. But as yet Thomas had not got amongst them, and indeed Peter himself had been absent too, but that having seen the Lord he return'd from Emmaus.

III. Thomas therefore not being present when our Saviour breathed on the rest, and gave them the Holy Ghost, are we to suppose that he by his absence was depriv'd of this gift and priviledg? No surely, for it was a priviledg common to the whole Apostolate, and peculiar to them as so; so that however by his absence he might have mist of it, yet by reason of his Apostolacy he could not. St. Paul distant with a witness, while these things happen'd, both from the Apostleship and Religion too, yet when made an Apostle, was withal adorn'd with this priviledg.