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.

[CHRIST. LXVII] [NERO. XIII] IN this thirteenth Year of Nero therefore, Vespasian cometh General into Judea, to undertake that War: A second Nebuchadnezzar; an instrument of the Lord raised up to execute his vengeance upon that Nation, now the Nation of his curse, and to de∣stroy their City and Temple as the other had done. And as several strange occurrences befel that destroyer, recorded in the Book of Daniel, so did divers strange things also be∣fal this, recorded by the Roman Historians with one consent. As Nilus flowing a handful higher on that day that he came into Alexandria, then ever it did in one day before. A Vision that he had in the Temple of Serapis, of his servant Basilides, who was known to be at that instant fourscore miles off sick. And especially his healing of a blind mans eyes by anointing them with his spittle, and curing a lame mans hand, by treading upon it with his foot: To which may be added those that were accounted the presages of his reigning, as a cypress tree in his ground, clean rooted up by the winds over night, grew strait up again, and well in the morning. An Ox came and laid him down at his feet, and laid his neck under his feet, at one time as he sat at meat; and a dog came and brought him a dead mans hand, at another. Now not to dispute whether all these things were true or no, nor by what power they were wrought: certainly they set the man in the eyes of men, as a man of rarity: and as he was designed by God for a singular work, so did these things make him to be a man looked upon as one of some singular omen and fortune.

His work in the Jewish Wars this year was more especially in Galilee: where first coming to Ptolemais, the men of Sipphoris, the greatest City there, come peaceably and yielding to him; and they had done so indeed before to Cestius Gallus. Josephus who af∣terward wrote the History of these Wars, was now a great party in them, having forti∣fied many Cities and places in Galilee, and being the chiefest that in those parts stood against the Romans. First he finds them work at Jotepata, which indures a very sharp siege, and puts the Romans to very sharp service before it be taken: At last after about fifty days siege Vespasian enters it, July 1. There Josephus himself is taken, and foretels Vespasian that he should be Emperour. Joppa taken presently after, and Tiberias yielded, and Taricheae taken and 6500 slain there. Gamala gained Octob. 23. and divers other

places brought in this year either by storm or surrender, which Josephus recordeth the story of de Bello lib. 3. through the whole Book: and lib. 4. to the end of the ninth Chap∣ter which he concludes, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Thus was all Galilee subdued.