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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...

This is a hyperbolical way of speaking, taken from the common language of the schools of the Jews, and designedr after a manner for their refutation. Such a hyperbole concerning this very mountain you have Zech. 14:4. The Jews used to set out those teachers among them, that were more eminent for the profoundness of their learning, or the splendour of their virtues, by such expressions as this; הוא עוקר הרים He is a rooter up (or a remover) of mountains. “Rabhs Joseph is Sinai, and Rabbah is a rooter
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