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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A sound as of a rushing mighty wind.

THE sound of a mighty wind, but without wind; so also Tongues like as of fire, but without fire. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is fitly and emphatically enough added here; but I question whether 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 was so properly put by the Greek Interpreters in Gen. I. 2. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Spirit of God was carry'd upon the face of the waters; and yet the Paraphrast and Samaritan Copy is much wider still from the mean∣ing and intention of Moses, when they render it by 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 he breath'd upon the waters. I conceive they might in those words, the Spirit of God mov'd upon the face of the waters, have an eye to those waters that cover'd the earth; whereas Moses plainly distinguisheth between the Abyss, that is, the waters that cover'd the earth, upon the face of which deep the darkness was; and those waters which the Spirit of God mov'd upon, that is, the waters which were above the firmament, ver. 6, 7. And by the moving or incubation

of the Spirit upon these waters, I would rather understand the motion of the Heavens, the Spirit of God turning them about, and by that motion cherishing the things below, as the bird doth by sitting upon its young, than of any blowing or breathing of the Spirit or the wind upon them; or that the Spirit was carry'd upon the waters as a wind is upon the Sea, or upon the Land.