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. XXIV.

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Having loosed the pains of death.

LET these 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, be either the pains of death, or the hands of death, yet is it doubtful whether St. Peter might speak only of the death of Christ, or of death in general; so that the sense may be, that God raised him up, and by his Resurrection hath loosed the bands of death, with respect to others also. But supposing the expression ought to be appropriated to Christ only (whom indeed they do chiefly respect) then by 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, we are not to understand so much the torments and pangs in the last mo∣ments of death, as those bands which followed, viz. the continued separation of Soul and Body, the putrefaction and corruption of the body in the Grave, which two things are those which St. Peter acquits our Saviour from in the following words. For, how∣ever it be a great truth that death is the wages of sin, yet is it not to be understood so much of those very pangs whereby the Soul and Body are disjoyned, as the continuation of the divorce betwixt Soul and Body in the Grave.