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. XXIII.

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Ioseph called Barsabas.

I. AMongst the Jews 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Jose, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Joseph are one and the same name. a 1.1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 R. Jose saith, in Babylon the Syrian tongue, &c. which being recited in So∣tah b 1.2, is thus exprest, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 R. Joseph said, In Babylon, &c. So 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 R. Jose in Hieros. Jom tobh c 1.3, is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 R. Joseph in Bab. Berac. d 1.4 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Jose ben Johanan in Avoth e 1.5, is Joseph ben Johanan in Maimonides Preface to Misnah. And so 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Mat. XXVII. 56. and Mark VI. 3. is render'd in the Vulgar, Joseph. See Beza up∣on the place now before us.

II. I would therefore suspect that this Joseph who is call'd Barsabas, might be Joses the Son of Alpheus, the brother of James the less, who as James also was called the Just; nor could we suppose any a more likely Candidate for the Apostleship, than he who was bro∣ther to so many of the Apostles, and had been so oftentimes nam'd with James. What the word Barsabas might signifie, it is not so easie to determine, because Sabas may agree with so many Hebrew words; the Nomenclators render it, The Son of Conversion, Son of quiet, Son of an Oath. (But by the way who can tell what Etymology the Arabick Interpreter in Bib. Polygl. referr'd to when he render'd it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Barzaphan?) I would write it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Bar Saba, which also the Erpenian Arab. does) i. e. a wise Son, unless you had rather Son of an old man. There is also another Barsabas, Chap. XV. 22. Judas sirnamed Barsabas, by whom if Judas the Apostle be to be understood, let Joses and he (both Barsabas) be brothers, both of them 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Sons of old Alpheus.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Bava kama, fol. 83. 1.
• b 1.2

  Fol. 49. 2.
• c 1.3

  Fol. 61. 3.
• d 1.4

  Fol. 19. 1.
• e 1.5

  Cap. 1. hal. 4.