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. XXXIII.

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In his humiliation his judgment was taken from him▪

THE Hebrew Text is, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 He was taken from prison and from judg∣ment; which the Seventy read thus, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 If you render the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in the same sense with 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 1 Sam. XXI. 7. Doeg (for devotion, saith Kimchi) was detained before the Lord: then is shewn so much the greater wrong done to Christ. He was snatcht from the place of his devotion, and from his work; and he was snatched from the place of judgment, that he could neither be safe in that, nor have just judgment in the other. Any one knows what 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 signifies, namely, Being detained upon a Religious account, and what affinity the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to shut up, may have with it, every one may also see.

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Who shall declare his generation?

That is, who shall declare the wickedness of that age or generation wherein he lived, and by whom he suffered such things? This and such like passages are very usual amongst

the Jews. h 1.1 In the generation in which the Son of David shall come, the Synagogue shall be a common stews, Galilee shall be destroyed, and Gablan shall be laid wast.—the wisdom of the Scribes shall putrifie, good and merciful men shall fail, yea and truth it self shall fail, and the faces of that generation shall be as the faces of dogs.—R. Levi saith, The Son of Da∣vid shall not come, but in a generation wherein mens faces shall be impudent; and which will deserve to be cut off. R. Jannai saith, When thou seest the generation, after the slandering, and blaspheming generation, then expect the feet of King Messias, that is, his coming. While I read the Chaldee Paraphrast, in Isa. LIII. methinks I see a forehead not unlike the faces before mentioned; for he wrests the Prophets words with that impudence and pervers∣ness from their own proper sense, that it is a wonder if his own Conscience, while he was writing it, did not check and admonish him.

Notes

• h 1.1

  Midr. Schi••▪ fol. 17. 3.