The harmony of the foure evangelists among themselves, and with the Old Testament : the first part, from the beginning of the gospels to the baptisme of our saviour, with an explanation of the chiefest difficulties both in language and sense / by John Lightfoote ...

Mat. 3. ver. 16. And lighting upon him.

In the strictnesse of the Greek, it is comming upon him, which is to the very same signification: especially the addition of the Bap∣tist himselfe being laid unto it, viz. that it abode upon him, Joh. 1. 32. Some conceive and that not improperly, that the Dove sate upon his head: which if it did, it was like the inscription in the golden plate, that was on the fore-head of the High-priest, and declared him to be Koddesh Laihovah, The Holy one of the Lord, Exod. 28. 36. How long the Dove sate upon him, is not to bee questioned, be∣cause not to bee answered, it is not unlike, that it did so, all the while hee was in the sight of John at this time, especially seeing that the Text saith, that straightway this Spirit drove him into the wilder∣nesse.