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B08603	Masora. A collection out of the learned master Joannes Buxtorfius's Commentarius Masorethicus. / By Clement Barksdale.	Buxtorf, Johann, 1564-1629.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1665 (1665)	Wing B6348A; ESTC R221405	27,661	74

valiant Leader Zorobabel whose Stock and Vertue is ennobled by the Genealogy of our Saviour Christ He had with him the High Priest Jeschua and other Chief Priests and Levites the companions of Zorobabel their Leader out of Babylon and he had also all that were Pillars of Piety among all the people These were the men designed for the Settlement of Religion not only for the present time but for the eternal benefit of Posterity from whom they knew the gift of Prophecy was now departing Cap. 10. XXXII In this Synod they thought it not sufficient to have delivered the Sacred authentick books unto the Church but the manner also how to read them cleerly and expound them was most prudently prescribed It appeareth by the learned Hebrews exposition of that place in Nehemiah chap. 8. vers 8. So they read in the Book in the sight of all the people and gave the sense and caused them t● understand the reading that in the publick Synagogue they read first the Text of the Book of the Law in Hebrew distinctly and understandingly according to the pauses and then explained it in the Chaldee which was now the vulgar Tongue of the people brought from Babylon This Reformation of the Sacred Scripture by Ezra was not unknown to Tertullian a most grave Writer of the first Antiquity in the Christian Church for in his Book De Hab. Mul. he saith After the overthrow of Jerusalem by the Babylonians it is certain that all the Instruments of the Judaic Literature were restored by Ezra Chrysostome also ascribeth unto Ezra the same work where he writeth Attend and Learn Gods mercy to us of old He inspired Moses and he wrote the Tables of Stone He determined him forty days in the Mount and again so many days that he might give him the Law In after times he sent Prophets who suffered innumerable wrongs War rushed in it consumed all sorts of men the Books were burnt in the Fire But again he inspired another man that he might repair those admirable Scriptures I mean Ezra and enabled him to compose the Law anew out of their Reliques c. Hom. 8. in Epist ad Hebr. Cap. 11. XXXIII Now and henceforth were the Foundations of the Masora laid the work was begun in the partition of the Sacred Books in the distinction of the Text into greater Sections and into Verses and in the dinumeration of them as also of the Letters least one Prick or Tittle might afterward be changed or lost For first having constituted the number of Canonical Books and reduced them into one body of Scripture they divided it into three principal parts viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Prophets and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the holy Writings or Hagiographa This Division was taken notice of by our Saviour and declared in that saying of his All things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law and in the Prophets and in the Psalmes concerning me Luc. 24. 44. where the Psalmes are put for all the Books in that part entitled Hagiographa out of which also some things are cited in the new Testament as fulfilled Elsewhere he named only two parts The Law and the Prophets were until John Luc. 16. 16. And in another place a whole part of Scripture is set for one Book of that part as It is written in the Prophets Mark 1. 2. Jo. 6. 45. That is in that part of Scripture which contains the Prophets in that Volumne of the Prophets For that which was cited was not written in all the Prophets but in one of them the first in Mal. 3. 1. the other in Isa 54. 13. Thus is this division usuall in the most antient writings of the Hebrews In the Masora when any word is found only thrice and that in the three parts of Scripture then they say We meet with it three times once in the Law once in the Prophets once in the Hagiographia In the Talmudists one binds up the Law the Prophets and the Hagiographa into one Book Again They brought unto us the Law the Prophets the Hagiographa bound into one Barabathra fol. 13. 2. Elias Levita in the third preface to his Masoreth where he speaks of the men of the great Synagogue and their labour in restoring of the Scripture writes thus For all the twenty four Books were not bound up together but they the Men of the great Synagogue conjoyned them and made three parts of them the Law the Prophets and the Hagiographa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cap. 11. XXXIV These three parts were afterward divided into others The Law according to the diversity of the matter and the History was subdivided into five Books which are entitled by us Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuternomy The Prophets were subdivided into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the former Prophets and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the latter Prophets The former are four in number which are named under the title of the Books of Joshua Judges Samuel and Kings or so called because in these Books it is treated of the first Prophets In these Samuel was reckoned at first for one Book and the Kings likewise for one which afterwards were distinguished into two Hence Samuel is called a Prophet as in that He gave them Judges until Samuel the Prophet Act. 13. 20. The latter Prophets are also four Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel and the Twelve Lesser These last were united in one Book that they might not be in danger by their smalnesse to be lost Hence is that to be taken Act. 7. 42. As it is written in the Book of the Prophets that is of the lesser Prophets to wit Amos 5. 25. and hence also we read in the Hebrew Doctors Those eight Prophets were bound in one Barabathra fol. 13. 2. to wit the four former and so many latter before mentioned as the Commentator there explains The rest of the Books are the Hagiographa and they were stiled in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Writings by a Synecdoche in asmuch as they were written by the Holy Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is by immediate instinct of the Holy Ghost and not by a Prophetick spirit or by Prophecy properly so called So Daniel and Esra are accounted as it were Historical composing the History of the Church by divine instinct whither also pertain the Paralipomena or Chronicles whose Author Esra is supposed to have been David and Salomon have written most part things belonging unto piety and manners and Doctrin in adversity and prosperity albeit they have Prophetical matters David eminently often times intermixed The five small Books which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are likewise judged as Didactical and historical The Hagiographa therefore at first were accounted nine Books Psalmes Proverbs Job Canticles Ecclesiastes Esther Daniel Esra Chronicles where Esra comprehends also Nehemiah and the two Books of Chronicles are taken for one The Book of Ruth was referred to the Book of Judges for the

in the Letters is incorrupt and unchanged and that may be judge For the Vowels are the soul giving life to the distinct Words and the Word written with bare Consonants cannot be read nor understood without Vowels and especially in dark and difficult places one will adde these Vowels another those as every own shall attempt to draw forth the meaning Here is need of another Judge the Word written with naked Letters cannot speak for it self The Greek version of the lxx differs from the Hebrew Text not only in the reading of Vowels but Letters also so that it cannot be Judge Where will you seek another Shall the Servant give sentence upon the Lord the waiting Maid upon her Royal Lady or shall the living and most clear fountain be tryed by the Tast and Colour of the troubled and muddy stream Cap. 9. XXVIII The other Opinion of the Hebrews touching the Authors of the Masora is that the Masora was written by the Men of the great Synagogue whom they stile in their Books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is the great Council gathered by Ezra the Priest the President thereof after the Babylonian Captivity by whose help and assistance he restored the Church of Jerusalem and of all the Jews purging and reforming it from many corruptions errors and vices contracted in Babylon For this Office when he departed from Babylon to Jerusalem by the Grace of God and the Authority of King Artaxerxes was committed to him as appears by the Kings Letters Esr 7. Not long after him the King sent away Nehemias also as a most faithfull Colleague and zealous assistant who being armed with the Royal Commission and publick authority promoted the reformation of the City and the Church with great fervour of affection as the Book of Nehemiah shewes Cap. 10. XXIX Esra and Nehemiah associated to themselvs others of the prime Men of the people and the wisest so that the whole Council completed the number of 120. Men which Council is of most worthy memory frequently in the Writings of the Hebrews Hence in the Chronicle Juchasin fol. 13. It is read of this Counsell When Constitutions are named absolutely they are from Esra And the house of Judgement of Esra is that which is called the great Synagogue or the great Council which restored the Crown unto the antient estate The Hebrews had three Crowns of the Law the Priesthood and the Kingdome The Crown of the Law i. the Study of Wisdom and the knowledge of the Divine Law was the greatest of all according to that Prov. 8. 15. By me i. Wisdome Kings Raign This Crown Esra which his Colleagues reduced to the Primitive Condition i. e. He reformed the Ecclesiastical Common-wealth from the filth and pollutions of Babylon and reduced it to the old integrity and purged the Holy Scripture from the deceitfull Books of the false Prophets and from all corruptions Therefore in the Jerusalem Talmud in the Book Megilla c. 4. in fine When the men of the great Synagogue arose they restored magnificence i. The Crown of the Law then whose magnificence none is greater Don Isaac Abarbinel in the preface to his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Commemorates the principal men of this Council most of whom came from Babylon and Jerusalem with Zorobabel The Catalogue saith he of the men of the great Council are Hagaeus the Prophets Zacharias the Prophet Malachias the Prophet Zorobabel the son of Schealtiel Mordecai Bilsohan Ezra the Priest and Scribe Jehosua the Son of Johotzedek the Priest Seraja Realja Mispar Bigaeus Rachum Bana Nehemiah the Son of Chacilja These are the twelve prime Men c. The last man saith Rabbi Moses ben M●jomen in whom the Council ended was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Simeon the just he who went forth to meet the great Alexander in bis Priestly habit and inclined him to shew Clemency toward the City which story is famous among the Hebrews It happened according to their account in the fourth year after the building of the second Temple whence we gather that the men of this Synod supervived beyond forty years All this is to shew that the Hebrews esteemed this Synod of very great Authority Cap. 10. XXX The head and President of this Synod Ezra was above all the rest furnished with singular gifts of God for these affairs chiefly was he expert in the Divine Law in the interpretation and description of the Sacred Scripture most exercised for which he is commended Esr 7. 6. He was a ready Scribe in the Law of Moses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Scribe he is called not so much à Scribendo from writing as from declaring and explaining the things contained in the Holy Scriptures For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an interpreter of Books a Doctor a Scribe And by no Book was gotten greater praise then by the Book of the Law whence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Lawyer who taught and interpreted the Law of God So in the New Testament they are sometimes stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Scribes who instructed the people sometimes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Skilfull of the Law Yet properly was he called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Scribe who did write Letters Instruments Books Contracts and such like as in Psa 45. 2. My Tongue is the Pen of a ready Scribe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But Esra was excellent both-wayes being at once a Learned expounder of the Law and a ready Writer of it For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the Lord and to do it and to teach in Israel Statutes and Judgments Ez. 7. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hence also they compare him to Moses for the excellency of his Dignity as we may read in both Talmuds and he was justly named Ezra for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is help St. Jerom renders it Adjutor a Helper XXXI Ezra therefore being sollicitous to help a decayed Church and to reform it distributed Offices Ecclesiastical instituted Sacrifices consecrated Vessels appointed for Divine uses celebrated Solemn Feasts proclaimed Fasts and Repentance cleansed the people from the Wedlock of Strangers and endeavoured to order and compose all things after the Prescript of Divine Law but that the Law it self and the whole Sacred Scripture might be extant amongst the people of God in the genuine and pure Integrity and that there might be a difference between the Writings of many false Prophets and the Books of the true and whatsoever spot by reason of the incommodities of their long Captivity had blemished the holy Letters might be stripped off there was great need of mature Advice of the provident care of Learned men exercised perfectly in the reading of the Sacred Scripture and of the vigorous aid of many Assistants To this purpose he had with him Divine Collegues endued with a prophetick Spirit Haggaeus Malachias Nehemias whose fervent and most ardent affection is testified openly by their Holy Sermons He had with him that most