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. XVIII.

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Thou hast had five husbands, &c.

CHRIST stops her fleering mouth with the dung of her own unchast conversation, charging her with that infamous sort of life she had hitherto liv'd. q. d. Thou for thy impudent adulteries hast suffer'd divorce from five husbands already, and that which thou now hast is not thy husband but an adulterer.

h 1.1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The Cuthites do not understand the Law about betrothings and divorcings. They had their customs of affiancing and divorcing; and per∣haps by how much the less accurate they were about their divorces (I mean with respect to the Jewish rules) the neerer they might come to the first institution of Moses, who al∣low'd no divorces but in the cause of adultery. That this woman was dismist from her husbands, for these infamous faults of hers seems evident partly from the extraordinary number of Husbands, partly that our Saviour mentions her Husbands as well as him that

then liv'd adulterously with her; as if he would intimate that she liv'd dishonestly under her Husbands, as well as with this man.

Notes

• h 1.1

  Kiddushin ubi supr.