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Show '70 Their sin4gogNes, Schaoli, L'I B. I I. Concerning the time when Synagogues began, it is ' hard to determine. It is probable that they began when the Tribes were fettled in the promifed Land. The Temple being then too far. di_fra,nt frum thofe which dwelt in remote places, tt ts hkely that they repaired unto certain SJnago$Hes infiead of the Ttmple. That they were in Da'lJid's nme appeareth; They have /Jurnt aD the Synagogues of G~din the l~!'d, P[at.74·8· And Jl:lofel of old time had tn every Ctty, them that -preached him, being read in the SJnagogues every Sab· bath day, AO .15. ~ 1. ;,;~~;;::,_~: In Jerufalem there were (a) four hundred eighty . c~p.a_ s,nagogueJ,befides th~ Temple; partly for Je~s~ partly for fir angers: one for H:rangers was calle~ the SJnagogHe of the Libertines, ACI .6.9. Whence 1t had that name whether from the Roman Libertines, fuch as had ferved for their freedom, being oppofite to the Ingenui, thofe that were free-born;( for ma_ny ofthofe Libertines became Profelites, and had their (b) syna-b Philo in~~· gogNes) or whether it were from (c) Lubttr, fignify~': r;;: .~~;~~~: ing an high-place, (for as ~heir Temple, fo t.heir SJnaA8J 6.9. g1gues and Schools were butlt on hi Us and htgh•places) becaufe it is faid, Prov. I .2 I. Wifdome caUeth in high. pl11ces: I leave to the judgment of the Reader. Oat of 1erufalem, in other Cities and ~rov_inces, were many SJnagogues •• there were SJnttgoguestn Galilee, Mat,4.2 3· SJntlgogues in Damafcm, Acts 9.2_. 8J· tt4gogues at salllmk,Afr.I 3·S·9JnagogNeJ at Antiochia, d Maimon . in Acts 13. 14. Yea, their tradition is, that (d) H'herefo· repbilla c.,.~ ever ten men of lfrael rnre; there o11ght to be huilt a SySe8. t-:. nagogue. . · • · . e Bwxrorf. de Their SyNagogues had (e) many Infcnpuon$; over ~tb6reviatJff tht gate was written that of the Pfal,It8. 20. Thh is the. 1"'·2 3' 81~1 74 gate ifthe Lord. the righteom'{hall enler into il. In the ••• _ • 1 ... • . waUs, L 1 B. I I. 4Nd i1ouje1 of Pf't1Jer. , waUs, thefe and the like fentence! ; Rememher ·thj Cr.e~toY",& enter into. the houfe of the Lord thJ God in hu ... nnltty.Andprayer rrnt~out attention i-1/ifte a body with· Oltt afoul. And {ilence H commendable in time of prayer. ' · . ~s th~ Courts of the people before the Temple were dtfbngutfhed by a wall into two rooms, the one for men, the other for women: Co in the SJnt~gogues, the ~omen we~e fepara~ed from the men, (f) by a parti- f Talmwefirr tJon of Lattice or wue-work . tran .. surtt '"1'·- l h S ' h • 14ft.1Jt.Buxtorf• n t e ~nagogues ~ e Scribes· ordinarily taught SynAg. '•9, but not only they, for chri{i himfelf taught in them' P· 2 4°• &·c: He th~t gave liberty to preach there, was term~ €d "fXIQ'f,l~d.~(l}r~. The Ruler of the SJndgogue. There was alfo a Mtnifler who gave the book unto the p h · 0 · d · · • re ac er, an recetve tt again after the Text had bee d C~rifl clofed the boo~{,' and gave it agttin unto ~~~~i: nif!_er, ~fte 4• lQ. !his is probably he, whom thev c::al1ed 11J~ n~7w Sheluzch 1Jibb~tr, the Minifler or Cler'4 of_ the ~1utgog11e. fhetr ~choo~s were different from their S;nagog1u 1• !'t~Hl h~vJng dtfputed for the fpa-ce of three months ~n ~he SJ:nagogue, becaufe divers believed not, but pa e evtl o_f _th~t ~ay, he departed from them, and feparated hts -Dtfctples, difputing daily in the S h l of one.7JranntH,Afr.I~.8.9,To. coo .· Thetr School fornetimes is called rw:J ·Beth an d h"ufe, fimply, as appeareth by that faying · (g) ·~{Jo; D .c . ec,u n& r e.1d de qH 1· h 1H conte11tr.o fiu t.t t.n ter d'o mum Sat» gtr ihw'N1; ft'ttllll t.iPl .~ Tht, fi omum Hillel) ne Blias quidem aholere pojfet. &. Io. - S o e .18 .matters controverted between the houfe -of . . amm111-_, a~d th~ hoHfe of Hillelj Eli~~t him(elf cquld · ~ot d~ct~e ,-that ls, between their two Schools. Some- : ~m~ It ts called un1Ci!t M'J Btth Hammidrafth an ~ .'o~ e of fubtle and acute expofition • . Here p~rnts were |
