the upper Church of the Apostles Catech. 16. and in which as those Fathers tell us the Holy Ghost lighted on the Apostles I know not But there are who have thought the Coenaculum Sion to have been this upper Room mentioned by the Evangelists Yet others say that it was an upper Room in the Iewish Temple see De Dieu in Act 1. Bethesda St. Ioh. 5.2 c. The Greek Copies generally and St. Chrysost favour our reading Bethesda so Theophylact and Euthym. In the Syr. it is writ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Arab. and Pers. much agree with it i. e. the house of mercy as the Arab. interprets it Yet S. Cyril Alex. and S. Hieron de loc Hebr. read Bethsaida or Bethseida and Tertul. de Bapt. c. 5. Betsaida But contr Iud. c. 13. Bethsaida where he tells us that the miraculous healing virtue of the Pool ceased when the Iews arrived to that height of fury to blaspheme the name of God as they did by adding this to their other heinous wickednesses the crucifying his Son. The same Tertul. de bapt and also S. Ambros. de his qui initiantur Mysteriis c. 4. and S. Chrysost. Edit Savil. tom 5. p. 585. l. 40. seem to have thought that there was only one cured at the Pool in one year Some have thought it to be the same with that which is called the upper Pool Isa. 7. 3 c. and the old Pool Isa. 22. 11. and by Ioseph de bel Iud. l. 5. c. 13. Solomon's Pool We need not wonder at Iosephus his silence concerning the healing Virtue of the Pool since as Tertullian informs us it ceased many years before the time that he writ The Sheep-Market St. Ioh. 5. 2. Because there is mention of the Sheep-gate Neh. 3. 1 32. 12. 39. some chuse to render it here not the Sheep-Market but the Sheep-gate But what if it be the Pool it self viz. Bethesda that is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 q. d. the Sheep-pool so S. Hieron de loc Hebr. S. Chrysost. S. Cyril Alex. Theophylact also Mopsuest and Ammon and not only the Vulgar Arab. and AEthiop but also some Greek Copies do favour this see Luc. Brugens And S. Hieron gives this reason of the Pool's being called probatica or pecualis because they used to wash the Sacrifices in one of the two Lakes which as he tells us were in or near it Theophylact also speaks of the washing the entrails of the Sacrifices in this Pool and Benjamin in Itinerar tells of a Pool that was to be seen in his time in which they did anciently wash their Sacrifices Hence perhaps it is that the Syr. instead of A Sheep-pool reads A place of Washing and the Pers. A fountain or well of Washing Siloam St. Luc. 13. 4. St. Ioh. 9. 7 11. It is the same with Gihon and therefore 1 Kings 1. 33 38. the Chald. Syr. and Arab. do all read Silohn instead of Gihon see Kimchi in rad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 On the last and great Day of the feast of Tabernacles the Iews had a custom to draw water out of the Pool of Siloam and they themselves interpret it to refer to the drawing of the Holy Ghost according to Isa. 12. 3. Misna in Succah c. 4. § 9. and Buxtorf in voc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Compare with this S. Ioh. 7. 37,38.39 The Tower mentioned St. Luc. 13. was perhaps built over the gate of Siloam or near the River or Pool so called Some have fansied that the fall of it was caused by that great Earth-quake which happened in the 7 th year of Herod the Great and overthrew many buildings the fall of which slew thousands of Men Ioseph Ant. l. 15. c. 7. But this fall of the Tower in St. Luke is mentioned as a particular accident fatal to 18 Persons only not as a general calamity in which thousands perished also as a thing that fell out later and was fresh in Mens memories Siloa is mentioned in Ioseph de bel Iud. l. 5. c. 13. The Sepulchre of David Act. 2. 29. There is mention of it in Ioseph Ant. l. 7. c. 12. and l. 13. c. 16. and l. 16. c. 11. The Pavement ◠St. Ioh. 19. 13. Why might it not be the Xystus which is frequently mentioned in Ioseph de bel Iud. l. 2. c. 28. l. 4. c. 34. l. 6. c. 19 34. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Phavorinus Some will needs fansy that this Pavement was the paved Chamber 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of which we read so often in the Talmudists De Lithostrotis see Plin. l. 36. c. 25. The Common Prison Act. 5. 18 19 22 23 25. Because v. 24. we have mention of the Captain of the Temple some have thought that this Prison was somewhere near the Temple and probably within the Tower Antonia Others have guessed that it was the place which in Ioseph de bel Iud. l. 5. c. 13. is called Bethso The Prison in which St. Peter was kept Act. c. 12. Some have thought that it was the same with the Common Prison before mentioned others that it was appendant unto Herod's Palace others that it was without the City in the Suburbs of it Others there are that cannot resolve whether it was in one of the Towers which were built on the Walls or that it was betwixt the first and second Wall or that it was within the Walls of the City and yet without that part which was more properly called the City I allow every Man his Liberty to subscribe to which of these Conjectures he pleaseth and only add that St. Chrysost in Ephes. 4. says that St. Peter was cast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Iron-Gate Act. 12. 10. The City into which it lead was say some that part of Ierusalem which was between mount Sion and the Temple for say they Iosephus often gives the name of City to that part of it Others who think that the Prison was appendant to Herod's Palace say that it lead from thence into the City Some affirm that it was usual in the East to have Gates at the end of their streets so that wheresoever the Prison was this Gate say they was at the end of the Street which lead from it Calvary or Golgotha St. Mat. 27. 33. St. Mar. 15. 22. St. Luc. 23. 33. St. Ioh. 19. 17. St. Hieron in St. Mat. says that he heard one affirm that it was called so from Adam's being buried there quia ibi antiqui hominis sit conditum capur but says he we read in Ioshua that Adam was buried near Hebron He therefore gives another reason of the name Calvary viz. because condemned Persons were beheaded there Yet the tradition that Adam was buried there is mentioned by Origen in St. Mat. Tertul. l. 2 contr Marcion in verse the Author de Cardinal Chr. oper serm de resur S. Basil in caten Graec. patrum in S. Mat. 10. 2. S. Chrysost. in S. Ioh. Epiphan Haer. 46. Paula Eustoch ad Marcellam S.