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. XVII.

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My Father worketh hitherto.

OUR Saviour being called before the Sanhedrin: I. Asserts the Messiah to be God, and II. That he himself is the Messiah. The Son of God and the Messiah, are convertible terms, which the Jews deny not, and yet have very wrong conceptions a∣bout filiation, or being made a Son.

St. Peter confesseth Matth. XVI. 16. Thou art Christ the Son of God. So also Caiphas in his interrogatory Matth. XXVI. 63. Art thou Christ, the Son of God? but they hardly agree in the same sense and notion of Son-ship. Aben Ezra upon Psal. II. 12. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Kiss the Son: confesseth that this is properly spoken of the Messiah; but in Midr. Tillin, there is a vehement dispute against true filiation. The same Aben Ezra likewise confess∣eth that in Dan. III. 25. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 One like the Son of God: is to be taken in the same sense with that of Prov. XXXI. 2. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 with my Son, and what the Son of my Womb? But Saadias and R. Solomon, understand it of an Angel.

m 1.1 There is one who hath neither Son nor Brother; the Holy Blessed; who hath neither Bro∣ther nor Son? He hath no Brother, how should he have a Son? only that God loved Israel, and so called them his Children.

It is not unknown with what obstinacy the Jews deny the God-head of the Messiah. Whence the Apostle writing to the Hebrews, lays this down as his first foundation of Discourse, That the Messiah is truly God, Heb. I. Which they, being ignorant of the great mystery of the Trinity, deny; fearing lest if they should acknowledge Messiah to be God, they should acknowledge more Gods than one. Hence they every day repeated in the recitals of their Phylacteries, Hear O Israel, The Lord thy God is one Lord. And so, being blind as to the mystery of the Trinity, are the more hardened to deny that.

Our Saviour strenuously asserts here the God-head of the Son, or Messiah, namely, that he hath the same power with the Father, the same honour due to him as to the Fa∣ther, that he hath all things in common with the Father; and hence he makes this re∣ply upon them about healing on the Sabbath; my Father worketh on the Sabbath day, so do I also.

Notes

m 1.1

Midras Co∣helath, fol. 93. 4.

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