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.

SECTION V.

LUKE Chap. I. from Ver. 57. to the end. John Baptist born.

WHen Maries three months stay with her Cousin Elizabeth was expired, it is easi∣ly guessed, that if Elizabeth by that time were not delivered of her child, yet she was very near it: and that consideration doth clear the subsequence of this Section to the preceding.

John Baptist born in Hebron, the place of the residence of Abraham, and of the first Royalty of David. Here Circumcision was first ordained, and here is he born that was to bring in Baptism instead of Circumcision. The Priests at the Temple, as they looked for break of day, used oft to say, The face of all the Skie is bright even unto Hebron. Talm. in Joma. cap. 3. &. in Tamid. cap. 3. Compare the dawning of the Gospel now rising there, in the Birth of the Baptist: and compare the words of Zacharias a Priest, ver. 78.

The time of the Baptists Birth will be found [by setting that Clock from our Saviours] to have been in the Spring, much about the time of the Passeover, about which time of the year Isaac was born.