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. II.

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Carried Stephen to his burial.

THEY * 1.1 do not bury (any one condemned by the Sanhedrin) in the Sepulchres of their fathers. But there are two places of burial, belonging to the Sanhedrin; one for those that are beheaded and strangled; the other for those that are stoned and burnt. The reason why such are not to be buried with their fathers is this, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Because they do not bury the guilty with the innocent; which they deduce from the story of an ordinary person cast into Elisha's grave, who continued not there but rose again.

x 1.2 The stone wherewith any one is stoned, the wood on which he is hanged, the sword by which he is beheaded, and the halter wherewith he is strangled, is still buried in the same place with him: or at least very near him. That it was otherwise with Stephen, the words now before us do evince; but whether this was from the indulgence of the Sanhedrin toward the condemned person: or, because he was not condemned by the Sanhedrin, let others judge.

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And made great lamentation over him.

The Rabbins go on. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 They do not make a lamentation over one condemned by the Sanhedrin, only bemoan him, i. e. inwardly, and in their heart only. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for this grief is not but in the heart. And it was a Vulgar conceipt amongst the Jews, that by how much the more sordidly the criminal was hand∣led by the Sanhedrin, and how much the less bemoaned after execution, by so much the more it tended toward the remission of his sins. Whence the Gloss upon the place, They do not bewail him, that so that disgrace of his might turn to his attonement.

This generous and true Christian courage of these good men burying St. Stephen, is deservedly applauded by all: and those that did thus bury him, did thereby publickly explode that ridiculous conceipt of expiation by undergoing the greatest disgrace here: for they knew well enough that the remission of this Martyrs sins, flowed from a more noble source.

Notes

* 1.1

Sanhedr. fol. 46. 1.

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x 1.2

Ibid. fol. 45. 2

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