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Show 't 9·a ··r'heir foveral Co12}flf_rle;. L l'B. V. . . for ·two forts of fires in il: 'Firfi, for tha~ wherein ~E~j.~ ~~~- men burnt their children O~tO A-Iel Ot h. (f) S~ond 1 r~ 1 ~ for another fire there conttnually burn1ng, to con· fume the dead carcaffes, and filth of Jer~tfalem; partly for the terriblenefs of the firft, and partly for the contemptiblenefs of the place by reafon of the fecond fire,it was _a IJpe ofheU fire it felf We may rtfolve that text thus) Anger deferved the punillimeuts of the 1-effir C ou·rt; Rae a> the pnnifuments of the greater : and Fool deferved punHbments beyond all Courts, even the fre of Gehenna. 1 ·hegreater Cmtrt,by way of excellency ,was called the Sanhedri,J,which word c.ametrom theGree~ ~ cruv- ·'"~"'' a place of Judgement: It was alfo called i'1 M':l Jt Mo{tl Kot- Beth din1t.he hoHfe ofJudgmetd/ g) 1 twas difiinguifhtd ,,,, fi~l. 186• from the other Co~trts ; firf\:, in refipefr of the number .Cof. It of the Judges, which were [event} one, according to the command of God to Mofes at their firfl infiituti· on, Numb. I 11 16. Gather unto me feventy ftun of the Elders of Ifrae)) whom thou 4,noweft that they are the Elders of the people, and Governours over tbem, ~tnd ;hring them unto the Tabernacle of the C()ngregation, and let them flandthere 'With thee. From the lat-ter words of this Text, it is obferved, that there were fe. venty befides ~Jofes ; and therefore after his decea{e they al waies chofe one chief Judge ill his room) not reckoning him among the feventy; they called him . Naji, the Prince or chief over the JeventJ. Thefe feh 'IrAn. 1unr· venty are (h) thought to be chofenfix out of every ·Ul AnalJt. ex· ~ .b r. h · J_ _ ,j:' • f h. l 1 · pof. NHm. 11 • "rz e, tave t ·e l'rtuc o1 Levt, _?Ut o w tc 1 on y four i solon.]Archi were chofen. (i) Others thtnk the manner of their choice was thus; fix of every Tribe had their names written in little fcrolls of paper: in fevenfJ oi thefe {crolls was written ~:pi Zal{en, Seltex, an Elder~ in .the · two LIB. V. Their civil co11fiftorle,r. t o other ~'?M Chelecllv "ars • put into a pitcher of ' '· , A part ; thefe fcr~11s they a fcroll wherein ElderU:Vn, an? thofe that pluck'd out mongft the number of th as wntten, were counted a-out the other fcrolls I.e Juh~gehs: thofe that pluck'd h s n w tc a p rt · t ey were rejected, NJtmb, I I .26 Th fi ~as wfrttten, NNm,u.J~• feveltiJ was called li\'1 n':llN A b. heth e ~nior o thefe iif the ]11dgmmt, Hall Th (') dm, the Father Judges' fate jn m·anne'r of a~ h wh?le Set or Bench o(i M~fu Kat. ting in the midfl: ab h aJf ctrcle, theNajifit t:sss.col.2 •. round about beneathovel_ tfie hrefi, the other fitting ~.._ ' n uc manner th h lue1'of the ]HdgemeiJt HaU f:. at t e Fa-right h'lnd l 'hlt> l~fl· c a~e next to the Naji on the • " e.JJer onfij,orflwa f bd" .d d . two forts~ one confi{ted oft .; h s u IVI e Jnto two fucb Con,ftjl.f.i oriP--s there wweerne' 1to t Jr ee .Ar.lld ermehn , anc{ at the door of the Cottrt hefore the i erupt em,t e one th.e door oft he M()untain of the ·Tememp:e, the ~ther at Ctty throughout rjrae/ wher {;/e · yea, In every houfholders, fuch a Conliltor e t ere were fixfcore· t~er fort of kffer Cuurtr con/ne~a~ e;eCl:ed: th.e o' IJlrate, three Aldermen. a d h" n~y of a Trrttm,. Jelfer Cities, which had n~ · thIs was erected ·in the· houfho1ders~· t t e number of fi.xfcore The(~) fecond difference between th f':ftorJ and the lejfer, was in refpe& of th e1reanr Con ~~ofeJ K~t/tlfl fiventJ fate only at ]ertifale . h. e P ace. The tbtd. Temple, in a certain houG' Wit tn the Court of the chath hega~ith the paved c~ e ~all~d n'~J~ nJw7 Lif• . rious cut fto~es whet· :ahmfJer; be<;aufe of the cu- Gree~s· . ' ew-i t It wa d b It was called "'~6r CIJ-" s pAve : y the fat down in the J d r · ·~ the Pavemew1. Pil~tte !'a'lJement' John '~. Ig~m:r~e eat, in a place called the In theg41es of the of. N other Conlifrory fate all the City are the Hre:ge~il th ow ~ccadu~e the ~ate~ of ereo.,. an In theJr gateS. theifl |
