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A Commentary upon the Acts of the Apostles, ironic and critical; the Difficulties of the text explained, and the times of the Story cast into annals. From the beginning of the Book to the end of the Twelfth Chapter. With a brief survey of the contemporary Story of the Jews and Romans (down to the
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The Harmony of the Four Evangelists among themselves, and with the Old Testament, with an explanation of the chiefest difficulties both in Language and Sense: Part I. From the beginning of the Gospels to the Baptism of our
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A Few and New Observations upon the Book of Genesis: the most of them certain; the rest, probable; all, harmless, strange and rarely heard of before
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sects, Lightfoot had various practical suggestions for the repression of current "blasphemies", for a thorough revision of the
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In 1644 the first instalment of an unfinished work was published in London. The full title was
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Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae impensae in Acta Apostolorum et in Ep. S. Pauli ad Romanos
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This article is about 17th-century clergyman. For the 18th-century biologist, see
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on occasion of the public fast of 29 March. It was published under the title of
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among the undergraduates. After taking his degree he became assistant master at
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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From the first Passover after our Saviour's Baptism to the second
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In September 1630 he was presented by Cotton to the rectory of
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The Temple, especially as it stood in the Days of our Saviour
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From the Baptism of our Saviour to the first Passover after
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were first edited, in 2 vols. fol., by George Bright and
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In 1654 Lightfoot had been chosen vice-chancellor of the
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The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the New Testament
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The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the Old Testament
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churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the
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(2 February 1764). 433:The most complete edition is that of the 43:(29 March 1602 – 6 December 1675) was an 545: 494: 467: 373:, in 1664, 1671, and 1674 respectively. 349:(1657). His own best-known work was the 261:; in it a parallel is drawn between the 217: 75:. He was educated at Morton Green near 67:, the son of Thomas Lightfoot, vicar of 31: 357:appeared in 1658, that relating to the 107:. There he attracted the notice of Sir 1589: 693:Form of Presbyterial Church Government 353:, in which the volume relating to the 23:. 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John Lightfoot (biologist)
John Prideaux Lightfoot

English
University of Cambridge
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Stoke-on-Trent
Uttoxeter
Staffordshire
Congleton
Cheshire
Christ's College, Cambridge
orator
Repton School
Derbyshire
Norton in Hales
Shropshire
Rowland Cotton
Hebraist
London
Stone, Staffordshire
Hornsey
Sion College
Ashley, Staffordshire
Westminster Assembly
Erastian controversy
Catharine Hall
St Catharine's College
Much Munden
Hertfordshire

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