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John Lightfoot’s Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica uses rabbinical literature to comment on the text of the New Testament, and to help modern readers understand the textual background from within the framework of Jewish literature. Lightfoot makes full use of Hebrew and Aramaic literature to provide thorough commentary on the New Testament. He uses Jewish sources not...

A CHOROGRAPHICAL CENTURY &c. &ca ———————— CHAP. I The Division of the Land THE Jewish writers divide the whole world into ארץ ישראל “The land of Israel,” and חוצה לארץ “Without the land:” that is, the countries of the heathen. Both which phrases the book of the gospel owns: “The land of Israel,” Matt. 2:20: and it calls the heathens, τοὺς ἔξω, “those that are without,” 1 Cor. 5:13; 1 Tim. 3:7, &c. And sometimes the unbelieving Jews themselves, as Mark 4:11. They distinguish all the people of the
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