A commentary upon the Acts of the Apostles, chronicall and criticall the difficulties of the text explained, and the times of the story cast into annals : the first part, from the beginning of the Booke, to the end of the twelfth chapter : with a briefe survey of the contemporary story of the Jews and Romans / by John Lightfoot ...

Sect. 2. Why the Evangelist doth measure this distance by a Sabbath dayes journey, rather then any other measure.

This also is not impertinent to take notice of, because nei∣ther the present time, nor the present action had any reference to the Sabbath day at all: For had it been either the Jews Sab∣bath, or the Christian Sabbath, when this thing was done; it were easie to see why the measure of the distance betwixt these two places, is by such a standard; but since it was in the middle of the week when our Saviour ascended, and neare neither the one sabbath nor the other, it cannot but breed some just scruple why the Evangelist should mention a Sabbath dayes journey here.

But before we can give satisfaction to these two scruples, it is in a kind necessary to resolve one or two more which are of no lesse, if not of a greater difficulty: and those are;