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 LXVIII.

MATTH. Chap. XX. from Ver. 20. to Ver. 29.

MARK Chap. X. from Ver. 35. to Ver. 46.

The request of Zebedees sons. They are told of their Martyrdom.

THe order is plain of it self: and yet the connexion is somewhat strange: for in the last words before, Christ had foretold of his death, yet the Sons of Zebedee here de∣sire to sit on his right hand and left in his Kingdom. Galatius resolves it thus, Discipuli in errore aliquando fuerunt, credentes Christum illico, post resurrectionem terreni regni sceptro potiturum: unde & quidam eorum, super caeteros primatum ambientes, &c. The Disciples sometimes were mistaken, conceiving that Christ presently after his resurrection should obtain the scepter of an earthly Kingdom, whereupon some of them ambitious of priority above the rest, desired to sit on his right hand and left, &c. lib. 4. cap. 1. It is true indeed that the Jewish Na∣tion, and the Disciples with them erred in judging about Messias his Kingdom, Act. 1. but they erred as far also about Messias his Resurrection, till experience had informed them better. Therefore it cannot well be imagined, that the Wife and Sons of Zebedee thought of Christs Resurrection in this their request, but conceived of his temporal Kingdom according to the notions of the rest of the Nation about it: What therefore our Saviour had spoken instantly before of his being scourged, crucified, killed, and Ri∣sing again, they understood in some figurative sense or other; but the Evangelists plain∣ly tell us, they understood it not in the sense that he spake it. It may be his naming these two The sons of thunder, gave them some blind incouragement to such a request. Christ foretels his own death and their suffering Martyrdom under the title of Baptism, in which sense the Apostle also useth the word 1 Cor. 15. 29. The Jewish baptizings or dippings in their purifications, was a very sharp piece of Religion, when in frost and snow and wind and weather they must over head and ears in cold water, from which the phrase was used to signifie death and the bitterest sufferings. The Jerusalem Gemarists do tell us, that the Women of Galilee grew barren, by reason of the cold in their purifyings. R. Aha in the name of Tanchum bar R. Chaia saith, In the days of R. Joshua ben Levi, they sought to abolish this dipping, because of the women of Galilee which were made barren by reason of the cold. R. Joshua ben Levi saith, Do ye seek to abolish a thing that fenceth Israel from transgression? &c. Beracoth fol. 6. col. 3.