The idea with which Lightfoot commenced his learned labours was to produce one great and per fect work—a harmony of the four Evangelists, with a commentary, and prolegomena. But the little probability of his being able to publish at once so vast a work as he saw it would become, were he to carry out the idea in its completeness—in an age when brevity was essential to everything which issued from the press—determined him to give to the world from time to time the result of his labours, in separate treatises. The subject-matter of these treatises may be classed under the general heads of chronology', chorography, investigation of original texts and versions, examination of Rabbinical com ments and paraphrases. We conclude with a list of Lightfoot's works, with the date of their original publication, where the date is stated in the work itself. Erubhin, or Miscellanies, Christian and judaical, penned for recreation at vacant hours, dedicated to Sir Rowland Cotton, Hornsey 1629. A few and new Observations upon the Book of Genesis : The most of them certain, the rest probable, all harmless, strang-e, and rarely heard of before, 1642. Also an hanayul of gleanings out of the Book of Exodus, 1643. The Harmony of the Four Evangelists among themselves, and with the O. T. The first part : From the beginning of the Gospels to the bap tism of our Saviour, with. an explanation of the chiefest difficulties, both in language and sense, dated \Vestminster 1644. A Commentary upon the Acts of the Apostles, Chronical and Critical. The Diffi culties of the Text explained, and the times of the story cast into Annals. The first part : From the beginning of the Book to the end of the Twelfth chapter, wN a brief survey of the contemporary stmy of the yews and Romans, 1645. The Har mony, etc. The second part : From the Baptism of our Saviour to the first Passover after, etc. No date. The Temple Service, as it stood in the days of our Saviour, described out of the Scriptures and the Eminentest Antiquities of the yews, London 1649. The Harmony, etc. The third part : From
the First Passover after our Saviour's Baptism to the second, etc. Dedication to William Cotton, Esq., Bellaport, dated Much- Mundon OP,. The Temple, especially as it stood in the days cf. our Saviour, dated Much-Mundon 165o. Ham IIeb raica, et Talmudicee, Hebrew and Talmudic Exerci tations, T. Upon the Chorography of the Land of Israel ; 2. Upon the Gospel of St. ilfaNew, 1658. Horw, etc., upon the Gospel of St. Alark. Together with a Chorographical Decad. Remarkable In scription to God and the King,' and Dedication to Gilbert, Bishop of London, 1661. .7ewish and Talmudical Exercitations VOK the Evangelist St. Luke, to which are premised some Chorographical notes. Dedication to Gilbert, Archbishop of Can terbury, undated. yezvish, etc., UP071 St. .7011,1, to which is premised a Chorographical inquiry, etc. Dedication to Sir Orlando Bridgeman, undated. Hora Hebraica,, etc., Acts of the Apostles, and some Chapters of the .Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans. No dedication, preface, or date. Hora, etc., UP011 the First Epistle to the Corinthians, to which is added a a'iscourse concerning what Bibles were used to be read in the religious Assemblies of the ,ews. Dedication to Sir William Morice, knight, princi pal Secretary of State, 1664. Sermons on various occasions from 1655 to 1674. An edition of his collected works, with a preface by- Dr. Bright, and a life by the editor, was published in 2 vols. folio, by John Strype, M.A., in 1684. Another edition, in folio, was published at Utrecht in 1699, another in London 1822-25, edited by Pitman, in 13 vols., and his Horre Hebraicw et Talmudicre at Oxford, edited by Rev. R. Gandell, in 4 vols., 1859. During the latter years of his life he contributed the most valuable assistance to the authors of Walton's Polyglott Bible, Castell's Heptaglot Lexi con, and Pool's Synopsis Criticorum.—M. H.