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A48431	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.; Works. 1684	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.; G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696.; Strype, John, 1643-1737.	1684 (1684)	Wing L2051; ESTC R16617	4,059,437	2,607

at Ephesus 56 1 Nero. Paul at Ephesus 57 2 Paul writeth the second Epistle to Corinth And now may we in some scantling fix those Stories to their times which hung loosely before namely the choosing of the Deacons the death of Stephen conversion of Samaria and the Eunuch and conclude that they were about the beginning of the next year after Christs ascension PART II. The Roman Story § 1. Velleius Paterculus TIBERIUS keepeth himself still in the Countrey but not stil at Capreae * * * Dion sub his coss for this year he draweth near unto Rome and haunteth in some places about four miles off but cometh not at all unto the City This seemeth to be his first journey towards it that Suetonius speaketh of * * * In Liber cap. 17. when he came by water to the Gardens beside the Nanmachy or the Pool in Tiber where they used their sportting sea-fights and returned again but the cause not known The first thing mentioned of him under these Consuls both by Tacitus and Dion is his marrying forth the Daughter of Drusus which they name not and Julia and Drusilla the Daughters of Germanicus Drusilla to L. Cassius Julia to M. Vinicius This was a Son of that M. Vinicius to whom Paterculus dedicated his short and sweet Roman History And the nearness of the time would very nearly perswade that this was that very Vinicius himself but that Paterculus sheweth that his Vinicius was Consul when he wrote his book to him and that as himself and Dion agreeing with him sheweth An. V. C. 783. or the next year after our Saviours Baptism but this Vinicius Tiberius his Son in Law as Tacitus intimateth was only a Knight but a Consuls Son Howsoever in these times shone forth and flourished the excellent wit and matchless pen of that Historian an Author known to all learned men and admired by all that know him His Original was from the Campanians as himself witnesseth not very far from the beginning of his second book when he cometh to speak of the Italian war in the time of Sylla and Marius No pen is so fit to draw his pedegree and Character as his own and therefore take only his own words Neque ego verecundia domestici sanguinis gloriae dum verum refero subtraham c. Nor will I for modesty derogate any thing from the honour of mine own blood so that I speak no more than truth for much is to be attributed to the memory of Minatius Magius my great-Grandfathers Father a man of Asculum who being * * * Or grandchild Nephew to Decius Magius a renowned Prince of the Campanians and a most faithfull man was so trusty to the Romans in this war that with a Legion which he had banded Pompey took Herculaneum together with T. Didius when L. Sulla besieged and took in Consa Of whose vertues both others but especially and most plainly Q. Hortensius hath made relation in his Annals Whose Loyalty the people of Rome did fully requite by enfranchising both him and his and making two of his Sons Pretors His Grandfather was C. Velleius Master of the Engeneers to Cn. Pompey M. Brutus and Tyro a man saith he second to none in Can●pany whom I will not defraud of that Testimony which I would give to a stranger He at the departure of Nero Tiberius his Father out of Naples whose part he had taken for his singular friendship with him being now unweldy with age and bulk of body when he could not accompany him any longer he slew himself Of his Fathers and of his own rank and profession thus speaketh he joyntly At this time namely about the time that Augustus adopted Tiberius after I had been Field-Marshal I became a Souldier of Tiberius and being sent with him General of the Horse into Germany which Office my Father had born before for nine whole years together I was either a spectator or to my poor ability a forwarder of his most celestial designs being either a Commander or an Ambassadour And a little after In this war against the Hungarians and Dalmatians and other Nations revolted my meaness had the place of an eminent Officer For having ended my service with the Horse I was made Questor and being not yet a Senator I was equalled with the Senators And the Tribunes of the people being now designed I led a part of the. Army delivered to me by Augustus from the City to his Son And in my Questorship the lot of my Province being remitted I was sent Ambassadour from him to him again Partner in the like employments and honours he had a brother named Magius Celer Velleianus that likewise attended Tiberius in the Dalmatian war and was honoured by him in his Triumph and afterward were his Brother and he made Pretors When he wrote that abridgement of the Roman History which we now have extant he had a larger work of the same subject in hand of which he maketh mention in divers places which he calleth justum opus and justa volumina but so far hath time and fortune denyed us so promising and so promised a piece that this his abstract is come short home and miserably curtailed to our hands So do Epitomes too commonly devour the Original and pretending to ease the toil of reading larger Volumes they bring them into neglect and loss In the unhappiness of the loss of the other it was somewhat happy that so much of this is preserved as is a fragment of as excellent compacture as any is in the Roman tongue wherein sweetness and gravity eloquence and truth shortness and variety are so compacted and compounded together that it findeth few parallels either Roman or other § 2. Troubles in Rome about Usury This year there was a great disturbance in the City about Usury the too common and the too necessary evil of a Common-wealth This breed-bate had several times heretofore disturbed that State though strict and rigorous courses still were taken about it At the first the interest of mony lent was proportioned and limited only at the dispsal of the lender a measure always inconstant and often unconscionable Whereupon it was fixed at the last by the twelve Tables to an ounce in the pound which is proportionable in our English coin to a penny in the shilling Afterward by a Tribune Statute it was reduced to half an ounce and at last the trade was quite forbidden But such weeds are ever growing again though weeded out as clean as possible and so did this Partly through the covetousnes of the rich making way for their own pofit and partly through the necessities of the poor giving way to it for their own supply Gracchus now Pretor and he to whom the complaint was made at this time being much perplexed with the matter referreth it to the Senate as perplexed as himself He perplexed because of the multitude that were in danger by breach of the Law and they because they were in

that dwelleth in this House put into their heart that they may fetch thee in again or He that dwelleth in this House put into thine heart that thou mayst hearken to the words of thy fellows and they draw near to thee again This Court was parted from the Court of the Women with a wooden grate 13 hands breadth high In the Northwest corner of which womens Court namely in the very angle of the Court of the Priests was a parcel of building called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Chambers of the Lepers who came thither and were there as in a manner of an Hospital while the Priests were about the tryal of them The Heathens Mourners Lepers Excommunicate persons came to the publick service of the Temple and had the freedom of this outer Court and hither were oxen and sheep now got also for in this Court it was that Christ found these cattle and the Mony-changers at this time § Those that sold oxen and sheep and doves These were sold for sacrifices lambs for the Passover and bullocks for the festival after and doves for the offerings of those women and those Lepers cleansed that were not so rich as to reach to a Lamb Lev. 12. 8. 14. 21. And it may be sparrows were in this Market too for the cleansing of the Leper and to that it may be our Saviour alludeth Matth. 10. 29. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing and five for a half-peny Luke 12. 6. The Jews have a tradition That the burnt-offerings on festival days were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of common sheep or oxen but their peace-offerings were of the tithes Chagigah per. 1. Now this tradition joyned with the matter of conveniency against such times as there was like to be great store of sacrifices caused a Market to be kept at Jerusalem of beasts and fowls for that purpose that those that came from far to the Passover or to the other Festivals as our Saviour did at this time and his company with him might not be forced to bring their Passover lamb or bullock or sacrifice lamb or bullock along with them but might have such things for ready mony when they came to Jerusalem And now too much love of convenience had brought this market into the Temple Court § And the changers of mony sitting There is the like story to this a little before Christs last Passover when he came riding ●riumphantly to Jerusalem Matth. 21. 12. Mark 11. 15. Luke 19. 45. where he cast the buyers and sellers out of the Temple as he did here and it is like with the same course of whipping them though it be not expressed and with sharper words for here he calls them but merchants this was the first admonition but there he plainly calls them theeves There the Evangelists Matthew and Mark use the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Mony-changers here the Evangelist John useth both that and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too The Syriack in all the places retaineth but one word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Arabick doth the like Now what these argentarii and nummularii were for by both these expressions do Latine translaters call them requires some inquisition to find out We find mention of such kind of men frequently among the Romans and one famous instance may be produced to serve for many and that is what Suetonins reports concerning Augustus namely that some reviled him with the baseness of his descent as that he was Nepos nummularii The grandchild of a Mony-changer the derision is this in an Epistle of Cassius Parmensis Materna tibi farina siquidem ex crudissimo Ariciae pristino han● finxit manibus collybo decoloratus Nerunolensis mensarius Of such a meal art thou by thy mothers side for Nerulonensis a Mony-changer having his fingers blackt with changing Mony did mold her in a poor Mill at Aricia Suet in Augusto cap. 4. for Augustus was said to be a Millers grandchild Here is mention of Collybus from whence cometh the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Text before us and the Collybista or Mony-changer is called Mensarius a man of the Table because their profession was practised telling mony upon a table As the same Suetonius giveth us another famous example in the life of Galba Chap. 9. Nummulario non ex ●ide versanti pecunias manus amputavit mensaeque ejus affixit He cut off saith he the hands of a Mony-changer for cheating and nayled them to his Table A man of this trade was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shulchani among the Jews Mensarius or a man of the Table for in the tract Kiddushin or concerning espousals Per. 3. this case is determined A man saith to a woman I will shew thee two hundred Zuzim this was the common sum of mony undertaken by the Bridegroom upon espousal if thou wilt be espoused to me if he shew it her the espousal is made but if he shew it upon the Table she is not espoused And the Glossary upon the place gives this reason 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It may be he is Mensarius a Mony-changer and changeth the mony of other mens and shews her none of his own And so it is apparent that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Table is not to be understood for a common or ordinary table in every mans house but the table of this trade 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Evangelists calls it The Table of the Mony-changers Now it is hard to tell what was the mystery of this trade whether change or brokage It is generally held that they sate there to change great Mony into lesser coin with some profit upon the change and so the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth more properly intimate for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is rendred by the Greek Etymoligists to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 change of Mony and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Mony changer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth properly signifie small Mony 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the smallest value Camerarius out of a nameless Greek Author gives this account of this matter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. A pound containeth twelve ounces But the Hebrews dividing the ounce have called it by other names Far half an Ounce they call a Sta●er because half an Ounce being put in either scale the scales stood even Now a Stater or the half Ounce containeth two Shekels and the Shekel which is half the Stater and the fourth part of an Ounce contained twenty Lepta which some call Obolos or half pence Now one gave two half pence and received for it bread or some other thing for food therefore there sate in the Temple at Jerusalem mony-changers which are called Collybistae which changed the silver Coin that was stamped with the Emperors picture into less mony For wheras that Coin it was called argenteus contained an hundred pence and this was too high a rate for the buying of bread pot-hearbs and such like things it was