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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SECTION XVIII.

MATTH. Chap. IV. Ver. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

MARK Chap. I. Ver. 14, 15.

CHRIST at Capernaum in the coasts of Zebulon and Nepthali, &c.

WHereas Matthew in the beginning of this Section, telleth that Christ left Nazareth, Luke in the end of the preceeding, shews the reason why, namely because he was in hazard of his life there, and so the connexion is made plain.

In the coasts of Zebulon and Napthali captivity had first begun, 2 King. 15. 29. and there Christ first beginneth, more publickly and evidently to preach the near approach of the Kingdom of Heaven and redemption. In the first plantation of the Land after the captivi∣ty, Galilee escaped from being Samaritan, and was reserved for this happy priviledge, of being the first scene of Christs preaching the Gospel. And as that country was inhabited by a good part of the ten Tribes before their captivity, so upon the return out of Babel in the ten tribes of Zorobabel and Ezra, it may well be held to have been planted with some of the ten Tribes again. For 1. Observe in Ezra 1. that there is a Proclamation from Cy∣rus, that any of the blood of the Jews wheresoever within his dominions, should have liberty to go up to Jerusalem, ver. 3, 4, 5, Now undoubtedly the ten Tribes were then residing within his dominions, and it is harsh to conceive that they had all so far utterly forgot God and their country, as none of them to desire to go to their own Land again when permitted. 2. There is a summa totalis in Ezra 2. of fourty two thousand, three hundred and threescore, ver. 64. that returned out of captivity upon that Proclamation, and there are the number of several families reckoned, as making up that sum: where∣as if the total of these particulars be summed up, it reacheth not, by sixteen thousand or thereabout, to that number of forty two thousand, three hundred and threescore. Where then must we find those sixteen thousand, since they arise not in the number of the families there named? The families there named are of Juda and Benjamin and then cer∣tainly those sixteen thousand can hardly be imagined any other then of the ten Tribes. And 3. Whereas it is apparent that the returned of Judea and Benjamin, planted Judea, whom can we imagin, but some of the ten Tribes to have planted Galilee? And hence their difference in language from the Jews of Judea, and in several customs. And hence the reducing of some after the captivity, to the line of some of the ten Tribes: as Hannah to the Tribe of Asher, Luk. 2. 36. Ben Cobisin of the line of Ahab. Talm. Jerus. in Taa∣nith fol. 68. col. 1.

And here is the first returning of the ten Tribes, to be supposed, and it carrieth fair probability, that the most of the twelve Apostles, and many of the rest of the Disciples that were of Christs most constant retinue, were of the progeny of some of the ten Tribes returned.