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. II.

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We know.

IT may be a question, whether Nicodemus using the plural number, [we know] does by that seem to own that the whole Sanhedrin (of which himself was a member) ac∣knowledge the same thing. I am apt to think, the Fathers of the Sanhedrin could not well tell how indeed to deny it: which will be more largely discussed upon Chap. XI. 48. But 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, may either be the plural for the singular, which in the first person, is most commonly used in all languages, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 [which I question not Nico∣demus promiscuously used] may be indifferently taken, for either number, singular or plural. Or else, we know, may signifie as much as, it is commonly owned and acknow∣ledged.

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Thou art a Teacher come from God.

Nicodemus seems to have reference to the long cessation of Prophecy, which had not been known in that Nation, for above four hundred years now past; in which space of time there had been no Masters or Teachers of the people instituted but by men, and the imposition of hands; nor had there in that appeared any one person, that would pretend to teach them by a spirit of Prophecy. But we see that thou art a Teacher sent from God.