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 LX.

LUKE. Chap. X. from Ver. 17. to the end of the Chapter. And Chap. XI, and XII, and XIII, to Ver. 23.

THe observing of the beginning and end of this Section, will cleer the subsequence of this to the preceding, and the order of all the stories comprehended in it. It begins with the seventy Disciples returning from the imployment upon which their Master had sent them. Now that they returned to him at Jerusalem whither he was gone to the Feast of Tabernacles, appears by this, that after they are come up to him, he is in Bethany in the house of Mary and Martha, Luke 10. 38, 39.

The Section ends with this relation, And he went through the Cities and Villages teaching and journeying towards Jerusalem, Luke 13. 22. So that in Chap. 10. 17. he is at Jerusalem, having come thither to the Feast of Tabernacles, And in Chap. 13. 22. He hath been abroad and is now travelling up to Jerusalem again to the Feast of Dedication. Therefore this whole Section is the story of his actions from the one Feast to the other.

Chap. X. Upon the Disciples relating that the Devils were subject to them in his Name, he answers, I saw Satan fall from Heaven like lightning. Which referreth part∣ly to his death shortly to be, by which Satan was overthrown, and partly [if Heaven mean the Church of the Jews, and the state of Religion there as it means not seldome] to the power of the Gospel this very year and forward, among them, casting him out. With these words of Christ, and the consideration of the time they refer to, we may fitly compare several places which give and receive light mutually with it: As Matth. 12. 45. where Satan cast out of this nation returns again, 1 Cor. 6. 3. Rev. 12. 9. & Rev. 20. 1, 2. &c.

Unto a Lawyer Christ defineth who is a Neighbour, by the Parable of the wounded man and the good Samaritan, vastly differing from the Doctrine of the Pharisees in that case. Take these two or three assertions of their own Schools for some illustration of this Parable.

• 1. They accounted none under the term Brother, but an Israelite by blood, and none under the term Neighbour, but those that were come into their Religion. Aruch in voce 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. By using the word Neighbour are excluded all the Heathen. Maym. in Retseah per. 2. An Israelite that slayeth a stranger sojourning among them, is not to be put to death by the Sanhedrin for it, because it is said, If a man come presumptuously upon his Neighbour: By which it is apparent they accounted not such a one a Neighbour.
• 2. They have this bloody and desperate tenet: Hereticks, that is, Israelites that follow Idolatry, or such as commit provoking transgressions, as to eat a carcass, or to wear linseye woolsey for provocation, this is an Heretick. And Epicurians, which are such Israelites as deny the Law and Prophets, it is commanded that a man kill them if he have power i•• his hand to kill them; and he may boldly kill them with the sword: but if he cannot, he shall subtilly come about them till he can compass their death. As if he see one of them fallen into a well, and there was a ladder in the well before, let him take it up and say, I must needs use it to fetch my Son from the top of the House, and then I will bring it thee again. But Heathens betwixt whom and us there is no war, as also the feeders of small Cattle in Israel, and such like, we may not compass their death; but it is forbidden to deliver them, if they be in danger of death.

• [Observe this] As if one see one of them fall into the Sea, he shall not fetch him up, for it is said, Thou shalt not stand up against the blood of thy Neighbour. But such a one is not thy Neighbour.
• 3. Of all other people in the World they abhorred Samaritans▪ as appeareth by John 4. 9. & 8. 43. and by exceeding many expressions to that purpose in their own writings: and therefore our Savious urging for cleer and free charity in this Parable, exemplifieth in a Samaritan the unlikeliest man in the world to do any charitable office for a Jew: and he a Neighbour, though so remote in blood, religion and converse.

Christ is at Bethany, ver. 30. in the house of Mary and Martha. Martha was an usual Womans name in the Nation. Joshua the Son of Gamla married Martha the Daughter of Baithus, Juchas. fol. 57. Abba the Son of Martha. Id. fol. 72. and Aruch in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Isaac bar Shemuel, bar Martha. Jerus. in Shab. fol. 3. col. 4. &c. And now let the Reader cast his eye back from hence, and calculate, when or how it was, that Christ came so acquain∣ted with this family, and he will find no time or occasion so likely, as when the Woman∣sinner washed his feet, Luke 7. which we proved there was Mary, the sister of Lazarus, who was also called Magdalen.

Chap. XI. ver. 2. The Lords prayer rehearsed: Christ had taught it, almost a year and a half ago, in his Sermon in the Mount, and now being desired to teach them to pray, he gives the same again. They that deny this for a form of prayer to be used, either know not, or considered not, what kind of prayers the eminent men among the Jews taught them: John had taught his to pray, after the same manner and use of the Nation; and Christ being desired to teach the Disciples as John had taught his, rehearseth this form which he had given before. They that again deny this Prayer is to be used by any but real Saints, because as they say, none but such can call God Our Father; either know not or consider not, how usual this compellation was among the Nation▪ in their devotions, and Christ speaketh constantly according to the common and most usual language of the Country.

At ver. 14. and forward, there is a story of casting out a Devil, so like that in Sect. 35. the Jews cavil, and our Saviours words about it are the very same: and yet the current of the history evinceth them for two several stories: for as the Jews always carried the same malicious construction of his Miracles▪ so doth he justly always return them the same an∣swer, as hath been observed already.

At ver, 27. there is a link that chains the time and stories, As he spake these things: and another at ver. 29. If compared with ver. 16. and again at ver. 37. where his denouncing wo against the Pharisees, although it be much the same for sense with that in Matth. 23. yet that they were uttered at two several times and upon two several occasions, will appear by that time that we come to that Chapter.

In Chap. XII. He rehearseth many things that he had spoken before: the same doctrine being needful to be inculcated over and over, though to the same audience: much more when new auditors were still coming in. Therefore Christ towards his latter end, did like Moses, making his Deuteronomium rehearse the doctrine that he had taught before.

Chap. XIII. The first verse beareth this link of connexion, and continuance of story: There were present at that season, &c. Pilates bloody Act in mingling some Galileans blood with their sacrifices, cannot be looked for so properly in any place, as at the Temple. Jose∣phus his story in Antiq. lib. 18. cap. 5. is far from it. Siloam was in the midst of the City, Jerus. in Chagigah fol. 76. col. 1. a place of great concourse, where the fall of the Tower slew eighteen men.