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A48434	The harmony, chronicle and order of the New Testament the text of the four evangelists methodized, story of the acts of the apostles analyzed, order of the epistles manifested, times of the revelation observed : all illustrated, with variety of observations upon the chiefest difficulties textuall & talmudicall, for clearing of their sense and language : with an additional discourse concerning the fall of Jerusalem and the condition of the Jews in that land afterward / John Lightfoot ...	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1655 (1655)	Wing L2057; ESTC R21604	312,236	218

intended and their meaning is easie to be understood but to come to allot them severally to this or that time or place is but to do that that when ye have done all you can will come to no surer bottom to rest upon then your own conceit and supposall The matter of them is expressed as to the most part by allusion to the plagues of Egypt as boils blood darknesse and so it clears the thing intended namely in generall to shew how the mysticall Egypt Chap. 11.8 after all her oppression and persecution of the Israel of God should at last come to receive her just reward as old Egypt had done and that God would follow her with plagues till he had destroyed her They are somewhat like the plagues of the seven Trumpets some of which as we observed did in generall speak the state of the world till the rising of Antichrist and those Vials may be understood as the generall description of his plagues and ruine We observed in Chap. 6. and that upon good Scripture ground that the six Seals did all but speak one effect namely the destruction of the Jewish Nation but brought to passe by severall judgements and the like interpretation may be made here The first Viall brings a noisom Boyl upon the worshippers of the Beast this was the sixth plague of Egypt but here the first for that plague in Egypt came home to Iannes and Iambers the Magicians that they could not stand before Moses Exod. 9.11 And that both this and all the rest might be shewed to reach home even to the veriest deceivers and ringleaders of mischief in Antichristian Egypt this is justly set in the first rank The second and third here referre to the one plague of blood in Egypt and these exceed that For there all the rivers and ponds were indeed turned into blood but the Egyptians digged for water about the river to drink Exod. 7.24 and found it and it was not turned into blood The question and answer of Aben Ezra is pertinent It is said there was blood throughout all the Land of Egypt And the Magicians did so with their inchantments Now how could the Magicians turn water into blood when there was no water left but all was blood And he answers Aaron only turned the waters that were above ground into blood not those that were under ground but here sea and rivers and fountains and all are become blood still to shew how throughly the plagues should come home At these plagues there is mention of the Angel of the waters ver 5. which since all the Angels here are characted in the garb of Priests as hath been said may also be understood as alluding to that Priest whose office it was to have care of the waters and to look that there should be water enough and fitting for the people to drink that came up to the three Festivals Among the offices of the Priests at the Temple this was one Maym. in Kele Mikdash per. 7. and Nicodemus whom the Talmud speaks of was of this office Aboth R. Nathan per. 6. The fourth Viall poured into the sunne brings scorching heat this seems to allude to Ioshua's or Deborah's day when the starres from heaven fought the sunne standing still so long did not only give light to Israel but probably heat and faintnesse to the Canaanites and Psal. 121 6 seems to referre thither The sun shall not smite thee by day As in the fourth they are plagued by the sun so in the fifth by want of it The seat of the Beast darkened as Pharoahs Throne and Kingdome was and this darknesse bringing horrour and pains as Egypts did through dreadfull apparitions in the dark The drying up of Euphrates for the Kings of the East under the sixth Viall seems to speak much to the tenour of the sixth Trumpet the loosing of the four Angels which were bound at Euphrates Those we conceived the Turks to plague Christendom these we may conceive enemies to plague Antichrist The allusion in the former seems to be to the four Kings from beyond Euphrates that came to scourge Canaan Gen. 14. this to the draining of Euphrates for Cyrus and Darius to take Babylon For having to treat here of a Babylon as ver 19. the scene is best represented as being laid at the old Babylon Now the Historians that mention the taking of Babylon by Cyrus tell us it was by draining the great stream of Euphrates by cutting it into many little channels The Egyptian plague of frogs is here translated into another tenour and that more dangerous three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet spirits of devils working miracles c. This is named betwixt the sixth and seventh Viall though the acting of the delusions by miracles were all the time of the Beast and false Prophet because of the judgement now coming for though all deluders and deluded received their judgements in their severall ages yet being here speaking of the last judgements of Antichrist they are all summed together He is here called the false Prophet as being the great deluder of all The fruit of all these delusions is to set men to fight against God whose end is set forth by allusion to the Army of Iabin King of Canaan Iudg. 5.19 broken at the waters of Megiddo The word Armageddon signifies a mountain of men cut in pieces Here that solemn caution is inserted Behold I come as a thief Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments The Priest that walked the round of the Temple guards by night had torches born before him and if he found any asleep upon the guard he burnt his cloathes with the torches Middoth per. 1. halac 2. The seventh Viall concludes the Beasts destruction The great City is said to be divided into three parts either as Ierusalem was Ezek. 5.11 12. a third part to pestilence a third part to the sword and a third part to dispersion and destruction in it or because there is mention of an Earthquake this speaks its ruining in generall as Zech. 14.4 5. A tenth part of it fell before Chap. 11.13 and now the nine parts remaining fall in a tripartite ruine REVEL CHAP. XVII MYSTICAL Babylon pictured with the colours of the old Babylon Rome so called as being the mother of Idolatry as Babel was the beginning of Heathenism and the mother of persecution Babylon destroyed Ierusalem so did Rome and made havock of the Church continually She is resembled to a woman dockt with gold c. as Isa. 14.4 sitting upon a seven-headed and ten-horned Beast as Chap. 13.1 Which Beast was and is not and yet is it shall ascend out of the bottomlesse pit and shall go to perdition Rome under the Papacy was not the same Rome it had been and yet it was Not Rome Heathen and Imperiall as it had been before and yet for all evil Idolatry persecution c. the same Rome to all purposes