them four principal _Banners_, or _Standards_; _three Tribes to one
Standard_: for which reason, the _Church_ is said to be terrible as an
Army with _banners_, _Can. 6. 4._ The _Hebrew_ word _Banner_, _Numb. 2.
2._ the _Greek_[752] translateth _Order_ and so the _Caldee_ calleth it
_Tekes_[753] (a word borrowed of the _Greek_ τάξις) _order_: Whence the
_Apostle_ taketh his phrase, Every man in his own _order_, _1 Cor. 15.
23._
[752] _Ἄνθρωπος ἐχόμενος κατὰ τάγμα αὐτοῦ._
[753] _גבר על טקסיה Quisque juxta ordinatam suam aciem._
Every _banner_ was thought to be of _3 colours_,[754] according to
the colours of the precious stones in the brest-plate, bearing the
names of their _Patriarchs_. But this proportion will not hold in
all, seeing _Levi_ (who is not here among the other _Tribes_) was in
the breast-plate one of the _twelve_: and _Joseph_ there graved on the
_Beril_ hath here _two Tribes, Ephraim and Manasses_, unto whom _two
colours_ cannot be allowed from the breast plate.
[754] _Jonathan Uzel. Num. 2. 3._
Each _Banner_ had its several _motto_, or inscription. In the _first
Standard_ was written, from _Num. 10. 25._ _Rise up, Lord, and
let thine enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee flee
before thee_. It is moreover taught by the _Hebrews_,[755] that each
_Standard_ had a distinct _sign_ engraven in it. _Reubens Standard_ had
the _Image of a Man_: _Judahs_ the _Image of a Lion_: _Ephraims_ the
_Image of an Ox_: and _Dans_ the _Image of an Eagle_.
[755] _Dicunt in vexillo Reuben fuisse imaginem hominis: in
vexillo Jehudah imaginem leonis: in vexillo Ephraim imaginem
bovis: in vexillo Dan, imaginem aquilæ P. Fag. Numb. 2. Aben
Esra, ibidem._
These same _four creatures_ are used by _Ezekiel_, _Ez. 1. 10._ to
describe the nature of _Angels_. Every _Cherubim_ is said to have _four
faces_: _the face of a man_; to shew his understanding; _of a Lion_,
to shew his power; _of an Ox_, to shew his ministratory office; _of an
Eagle_ to shew his swiftness in the execution of _Gods_ will.[756] The
same description of _Angels_ you may find, _Rev. 4. 6._
[756] _Angeli ex hoc versu definiri possunt; sunt enim spiritus
intelligentes, ut homo, potentes ut Leo, ministratorij ut Bos,
& celeres ut aquila. Tremel. in Ezek. 1._
By the same _four_, in the opinion of many of the _Fathers_,[757] are
shadowed forth the _four Evangelists_. The _man_ shadowed S. _Matthew_,
because he begins his _Gospel_ with the Generation of _Christ_,
according to his humanity: The _Lyon_ S. _Mark_, because he beginneth
his _Gospel_, from that voice of the _Lion_ roaring in the Wilderness,
_Vox clamantis in deserto_: The _Ox_ S. _Luke_, because he beginneth
with _Zacharias the Priest_: and the _Eagle_ S. _John_, who soaring
aloft beginneth with the _Divinity of Christ_.
[757] _Hieronym. ad initium sui commentarii in Mat. It. Gregor.
homil. 4. in Ezek. ab Hieronim. dissentit. D. Augustinus in
Matthæo & Marco, nam in Leone Mattheum, Marcum, in homine putat
adumbratum. August. de consensu Evangelist. l. 1. c. 6._
Thus have we seen how they pitch’d their _camps_, their _marching_
followeth: and here we are to consider, first, their _marching in their
journeys_ thorow the Wilderness. Secondly, their _marching in their
battels_.
Concerning their _marching in their journeys_, they either _moved
forward_, or _abode still_, according to the moving or standing of the
Cloud, which conducted them: the manner thereof is described, _Numb.
10._ and summarily we may view it thus: when _God_ took up the Cloud,
_Moses_ prayed, and the _Priests_ with Trumpets blew an alarm, then
_Judah_ the first Standard rose up, with _Issachar_ and _Zebulon_,
and they _marched foremost_: then followed the _Gershonites_ and
_Merarites_, bearing the boards and coverings of the _Tabernacle_ in
wagons; the Trumpets sounded the second alarm, then _Reuben_, _Simeon_,
and _Gad_ rose up and _followed the Tabernacle_, and after them went
the _Kohathites_, in the midst of the _twelve Tribes_, bearing on their
shoulders the _Ark, Candlestick, Table, Altar_, and other holy things.
At the third alarm rose up the _Standard of Ephraim_, _Manasses_, and
_Benjamin_, and these followed the _Sanctuary_: unto this _David_ hath
reference, when he prayeth, _Psa. 80. 2._ _Before Ephraim, Benjamin,
and Manasses_, stir up thy strength, and come and save us. At the
fourth alarm, arose the _Standard of Dan_, _Asher_, and _Napthali_: and
to these was committed the care of gathering together the lame, feeble,
and sick, and to look that nothing was left behind: whence they are
called the _gathering Host_, _Josh. 6. 9._ unto this _David_ alludeth:
when my Father and my Mother forsake me, the _Lord_ will _gather_ me,
_Psal. 27. 10._
Concerning their _marching in War_: _First_, the _Priests_ sounded the
alarm with Trumpets, _Num. 10. 9._ this they termed: _Therugnah_.[758]
_Secondly_, one _Priest_ was selected out of the rest, to stir up the
hearts of the people, and by a kind of hortatory Oration, to encourage
them to the war, _Deut. 20. 2._ him they called _Unctum belli_, _the
anointed of the battel_. _Thirdly_, they marched on by five and five
in battel-array, _Exo. 13. 18._ so the Original signifieth in that
place.[759]
[758] _תרועה Clangor, Vociferatio. Hebræi duplicem clangorem
esse statuunt alterumque vocari תקיעה alterum תרועת quorum
ille æquabilis est vox, hic citus concisusque fragor, ille ad
convocandos cætus, hic ad accendendos millitum animos facit._
[759] _חמושים_
In the last place, we are to consider how they were to deal in
besieging a Town; for the conceiving whereof, note these two
propositions.
1. _They were to offer peace unto all Forreigners, and Canaanites_,
_Deut. 20. 10._ And this is clearly signified _Josh. 11. 19._ There
was not a City that made peace with the Children of _Israel_, save the
_Hivites_, the inhabitants of _Gibeon_, all other they took in battel.
For it was of the _Lord_ to harden their hearts. Yet here _Moab_ and
_Ammon_ are excepted; _Israel must not seek their peace_, _Deut. 23. 6._
2. _They were to make covenant with none of the seven Nations_, _Deut.
7. 2._ _Exod. 23. 32. & 34. 14._ With _Forreigners they might_, _Josh.
9. 17._ peradventure you _dwell among us_, and how shall we _make a
covenant_ with you? Not, how shall we _make peace with you_?
Some may question, what the difference was between _making peace_, and
_making a covenant_? I answer, _two fold_. 1. The _making of peace_
was a naked stipulation, or promise, mutually made for the laying
aside of all hostile affections towards each other; whereby life on
both sides might be secured. _Making a covenant_, was a solemn binding
of each other, to performance of this mutual promise by outward
ceremonies,[760] of cutting a beast in twain, and passing between the
parts thereof, _Jer. 34. 18._ as if they would say; _Thus let it be
done to him, and thus let his body be cut in two, who shall break this
covenant_? Secondly, peace was not concluded by the _Israelites_, but
only upon these terms, _That the People should become tributary unto
them_, _Deut. 20. 11._ The _making of a covenant_ was upon equal
terms, without any condition either of tribute or service, as is
gatherable from the _Covenant_ made by _Joshua_ with the _Gibeonites_,
where there is no mention of any condition at all, _Josh. 9._
[760] _Hæc est causa cur Hebræi Fœdus facere dicant כרות הברית
(~i.~) Dividere, aut dissecare fœdus, quemadmodum apud Latinos,
dicitur percutere fœdus, quæ locutio fluxit ab antiquo fœderis
faciendi more: Sacerdos enim feriebat porcum silice, dicens,
Sic à Jove feriatur is, qui sanctum hoc fregerit fœdus, ut ego
hunc porcum ferio. Livius. Decad. 1. l. 1. p. 17._
This difference seemeth to me warrantable, and serveth to reconcile
many places of Scripture, as where _God_ saith, _Offer peace to all_,
and _make a covenant with none_. _Secondly_, It sheweth the fraud
of the _Gibeonites_ to be greater than is commonly conceived, for
they sought not _peace simply_, but _a covenant_. _Make a league
with us_, _Josh. 9. 6._ _Thirdly_, It salveth that common Objection
made in defence of _unadvised Oaths_, to prove them _obligatory_,
though _unlawful_. The Argument is framed thus; _The covenant which
~Joshua~ made with the Gibeonites unadvisedly, was unlawful: but that
was observed by him, and the breach thereof, when ~Saul~ slew the
Gibeonites, punished by God_, _2 Sam. 21. 1._ _Therefore, &c._ I say
it salveth that Objection: because if we diligently observe _Joshua_’s
practise, we shall find _unadvised Oaths_ to be so far, and _only
so far binding_, as they agree with _God_’s _words_. _God_’s _word_
required the _Gibeonites_ should have their lives secured, because they
accepted _peace_; Thus far therefore the _covenant was still of force_.
_God_’s _word_ required, that the _Canaanites_, after the acceptation
of peace, should become _tributary_; here the _covenant was not of
force_, and therefore _Joshuah_ made them _hewers of wood, and drawers
of water_, which is a kind of tribute in the language of the Scripture,
a tribute of the _body_, though not of the _purse_: in which sense the
_Ægyptian Task-Masters_ are in the Original called _Tribute-masters_,
_Exod. 1. 11._
CHAP. IX.
_Their Measures._
_Measures_ in use among the _Hebrews_, and so among all other
_Nations_, are of _two sorts_: some _Mensuræ applicationis_, _measures
of application_, as, a span, a cubit, a yard, and the like. Secondly,
_Mensuræ capacitatis_, _measures of capacity_, as pints, quarts, pecks,
bushels, _&c._ _Measures of application_, mentioned in Scripture, are
these that follow (in which there might be no deceit; the ground of
these measures was the breadth of so many, or so many barley corns
middle sized, laid by one another) אצבע _Etsbang_, _Digitus_, _a
finger, an inch_.[761] It containeth the breadth of six barley corns
joyned together where they are thickest: though in round-reckoning it
goeth for an inch, yet in accurate speaking _four fingers make three
inches_.[762] Of this there is mention, _Jer. 52. 21._
[761] _Arias Mont. Thubal Cain._
[762] _Quatuor digiti constituunt tres pollices. Fran. Iunius
in Ezek. 40. 5._
_Palmus_, This was two fold; _Palmus minor_, and _Palmus major_. The
lesser containeth the breadth of _four fingers_, (i.) _three inches_,
the _Hebrews_ term it, טפח _Tophach_, the _Greeks_ παλαιστίδα: the
greater is termed זרת _Zereth_, by the _Greeks_ σπιθαμὴ; in Latine
_Spithama, & Dodrans_. It containeth the measure that is between the
thumb and the little finger stretcht out, a _span_.
פעם, _Pagnam_, _Pes_, _a foot_. It containeth _twelve inches_.[763]
[763] _Quatuor Palmos; scil. minores. Pet. Martyr. 1. Reg. c. 6._
אמה _Amma_, _Cubitus_, _a Cubit_. We shall find in Authors mention
of _four kinds of Cubits_. 1. _Cubitus communi_, this was the measure
from the elbow to the fingers end. It contained a foot and half, or
_half a a yard_, it is called the _common Cubit_. 2. _Cubitus sacer_,
_An holy Cubit_, this was a full _yard_, containing _two of the common
Cubits_, as appeareth by comparing _1 Kin. 7. 15._ with _2 Chron.
3. 15._ In the first place, the pillars are reckoned each of them
_eighteen cubits_ high: in the second place they are reckoned _five
and thirty cubits_ high; which, together with the basis, being one
ordinary cubit high, _doubleth the number_: so that the first Text is
to be understood of _holy cubites_; the second of _common cubits_. 3.
_Cubitus regis_, the _Kings cubit_; this was _three fingers longer than
the common cubit_:[764] Whereas the common cubit is termed _cubitus
viri_, the _cubit of a man_, _Deut. 3. 11._ _Onkelos_ doth improperly
term it, _cubitum regis_, the _Kings cubit_. _Lastly_, there was
_cubitus geometricus_, _A geometrical cubit_, it contained _six common
cubits_,[765] and according to _these cubits_, it is thought that
_Noah’s Ark was built_.
[764] _Herodot. lib. 2. in descrip. Bab._
[765] _Orig. hom. 2. in Genes. It. Aug. de Civitat. Dei, lib.
15. cap. 27._
Some make the difference between the _cubit of the sanctuary_, and _the
common cubit_, to be thus; _The common cubit_, they say, contained
_fifteen inches_,[766] the _holy cubit_ _eighteen inches_.[767]
But that the _holy cubit_ contained _two common cubits_, hath been
evidently proved; and it is probable, that those who make the
difference to be only three _inches_, have mistaken the _Kings cubit_,
for the _holy cubit_.
[766] _Quinos palmos._
[767] _Sex palmos._
חבל _Chebel_, _Funiculus_, _a line or rope_. The just length thereof
is unknown: the use thereof was to measure grounds; whence it is
sometimes taken for the inheritance it self. _The lines are fallen to
me in pleasant places_, _Psal. 16. 6._ That is, mine _inheritance_.
קנה _Kaneh_, _Arundo_, the _Reed_. The use of this was to measure
buildings; the length thereof was _six cubits and an hand-breadth_,
_Ezek. 40. 5._ The cubits in this place are interpreted[768] _Kings
cubits_: it was less liable to deceipt than the _Rope_, because
it could not be _shortened_ or _lengthened_, by _shrinking_ or
_stretching_: hence the _Canon_ or _rule_ of the _holy Scripture_ is
mystically typed out by this _Reed_, _Ezek. 40._ and _Revel. 21. 15._
[768] _Tremelius in hunc locum._
To these may be added other _measures_, wherewith they measured their
_wayes_ and _walks_. The least of these was צגד _Tsagad_, _passus_, _a
pace_.
Στάδιον, _Stadium_, _a furlong_. It is often mentioned in the _New
Testament_, not at all in the _Old_. It contained _one hundred twenty
five paces_,[769] which is the eighth part of our mile. Some think it
to be called so, ἀπὸ τῆς στάσεως, from _standing_, because _Hercules
ran so much ground before he stood still_.
[769] _Isidor._
_Milliarium_, _a mile_; It containeth with us a _thousand paces_, but
much more among the _Hebrews_. Their word ברה _Barah_, translated often
_Milliarium_, properly signifying a _dinner_ or _meal_, and being
applyed unto _journeys_, _walks_ or _ways_, it signified so much ground
as usually is gone, or conveniently may be travelled in half a day,
between _meal_ and _meal_, or _bait_ and _bait_. The word is read,
_Gen. 35. 16._ When there was (כברת הארץ _Cibrath haarets_) _about half
a daies journey of ground_. The _Greek_ in that place hath an uncouth
word χαβραθὰ; doubtless it was made from the _Hebrew_’s _Cibrath_, and
signifieth _half a daies journey_.
Their _measures of capacity_, termed _Mensuræ capacitatis_, were of
_two sorts_; some for _dry things_ as Corn, Seed, _&c._ Some for
_liquid things_, as Wine, Oyl, _&c._ In both, that there might be a
just proportion observed, all their measures were designed by a set
number of _Hens eggs-shells of a middle size_.
In my parallelling of them with our measures, where I speak of
_Bushels, half Bushels, Pecks_, &c. I am to be understood according to
_Winchester measure_, as we phrase it: such a bushel contained _eight
gallons_. Where I speak of _gallons, pottles, quarts_, &c. I am to be
understood according to our Ale-measure, thereby I avoid fractions of
number.
קב, _Kab_, _Kabus_, _a Kab_.[770] This contained _twenty four eggs_,
it held proportion with our _Quart_. The least measure mentioned in
Scripture, is the _fourth part of a Kab_, _2 Kings 6. 25._ The famine
in _Samaria_ was so great, that a _fourth part of a Kab of Doves dung_
was sold for five pieces of silver. The _Rabbines_ have a Proverb, that
_ten Kabs of speech descended into the world, and the women took away
nine of them_.[771]
[770] _Arias Mont. Thubal Cain._
[771] _עשרה קבין שיחה ירדו לעולם תשעה נטלו נשים Vid. Buxtorf.
Lexic. in חיה_
עמר _Omer._ It contained[772] _one Kab and an half, and a fifth part
of a Kab_, that is, _three pints and a half pint_, and a fifth part of
an half pint. It was the tenth part of an _Ephah_, _Exod. 16. 36._
[772] _Alsted. præcog. theol. l. 2. p. 588._
סאה _Seah_, σάτον, _a Satum_; The _Latine_ Interpreters commonly
render it by _Modius_. It contained[773] _six Kabs_, that is a _Gallon
and half_. We translate the word in general, _a measure_: To morrow
this time, a _measure_ (that is, a _Satum_) of fine flower shall be
sold for a Shekel, _2 Kings 7. 1._
[773] _Vide Buxtorf. Lexic. in קבב ex opere R. Alphes.
tractat. de Pasch. chap. 5. fol. 176._
אפה _Ephah._ It contained[774] _three Sata_, that is, _half a bushel,
and a pottle_.
[774] _Arias Mont. Thubal Cain._
לתך _Lethec._ It contained[775] _fifteen Modios (i.) Sata_; that is,
_two bushels, six gallons, and a pottle_. Mention of this is made,
_Hos. 3. 2._ It is there rendred in _English_, _half an Homer_.
[775] _Epiph. de mensur. & Ponderib._
חמר _Homer._ It is so called from חמור _Chamor_, _Asinus_, _an
Ass_, because this measure contained so much grain or corn as an Ass
could well bear. It contained _ten Ephahs_, _Ezek. 45. 11._ that is,
_forty five gallons_ or _five bushels, and five gallons_.
כור _Cor_, _Corus_. The _Cor_, and the _Homer_, were of the same
quantity, _Ezek. 45. 14._ It was not only of liquid things, _Luke 16.
7._
These measures of which we have spoken hitherto, the _Hebrews_ used in
measuring _dry things_: Three other measures there were, which they
used for liquid or _moist things_.
לוג _Log_. It contained[776] _six egg-shells_. It was of the same
quantity as the _fourth part of a Kab, half a pint_.
[776] _Buxtorf. in loco superius citato._
הין _Hin_. It contained[777] the quantity of _seventy two egg-shells_,
so that it was of our measure _three quarts_.
[777] _Buxtorf. ib._
בת _Bath_; βάτος, _Bathus_, the _Bath_. It was of the same capacity
with the _Ephah_, the tenth part of an _Homer_, _Ezek. 45. 14._ The
_Latine_ Interpreters commonly render it _Cadus_. _Hieron_[778] writing
upon _Ezekiel_, renders it _Vadus_. _Decima pars Cori, inquit, in
speciebus liquidis vocatur Bathus, sive Vadus._ I sometimes thought
there had been some error in the print, namely, _Vadus_, put for
_Cadus_: But now I find the _Greeks_ to use both βάτος, and βάδος, for
this measure, and from the last of these _Greek_ words, that ancient
_Father_ reads it, _Vadus_. Sometimes our _English_ renders it, in
general, _a measure_, _Luk. 16. 6._ It contained _four gallons and a
half_.
[778] _Hieron. Ezek. 45._
All these measures were proper to the _Hebrews_: I find three others
mentioned in the _N. T._ taken from other Nations.
Σεστός; _Sextarius_. We _English_ it, in general, _a Pot_, _Mar. 7.
4._ It was of the same quantity with the _Log_,[779] if we understand
it of the _Roman Sextarius_. It was somewhat more, if we understand it
of the _Attick Sextarius_: _undecim Attici sextarii æquabant Romanos
duodecim_. In probability we are to understand the _Roman_ measure, so
that it contained _six eggs_, that is, _half a pint_.
[779] _Alsted. præcog. Theol. p. 561._
Χοῖνιξ, _Chenix_, _a measure_, _Rev. 6. 6._ It signifieth properly
that measure of corn, which was allowed servants for their maintenance
every day. Whence was occasioned that speech of _Pythagoras_: _Super
Chænice non sedendum_. That is, _we must not rest upon the provision
which sufficeth for a day, but we must take care for the morrow_. It
contained[780] _four Sextarii_, that is, _a Quart_.
[780] _Budæus de asse. lib. 5._
Μετρητὴς, _Metretes_, _Joh. 2. 6._ It is translated a _Firkin_. It was
a measure in use among the _Athenians_. It was of the same quantity
with _Cadus_,[781] and _Cadus_ (as before was noted) was equal to the
_Hebrew_ _Bath_, so that it contained _four Gallons and an half_.
[781] _Budæus de asse. lib. 5._
CHAP. X.
_Their Coyns. First of brazen Coyns._
That they might have just _Coyns_ and _Weights_ they weighed both them
and their weights by _Barley-corns_.
Λεπτὸν, _Minutum_, _a Mite_, _Luk. 21. 2._ _Mar. 12. 42._ The latter
_Hebrews_ call it פרוטה, the _Syriack_ שמונא (i. _Octava_, _the
eighth part of Assarium_,) It weighed _half a barly-corn_.[782] It
valued of our mony, _three parts of one ~c~_.
[782] _פרוטה משקל חצי שעורה Moses Kotsens. f. 124. col. 4._
Κοδράντης _Quadrans_, _a Farthing_. It was a _Roman coyn_, weighing _a
grain of barly_; it consisted of _two mites_. The poor Widow threw in
_two mites which makes a farthing_, _Mark. 12. 42._ By consequence it
valued of ours c. ½.
Ἀσσάριον, _Assarius, vel assarium_. It was a _Roman coyn_, weighing
_four grains_. The _Rabbins_ call it איסור _Isor_, and say, that it
containeth[783] _eight mites_. Of this we read, _Mat. 10. 29._ Are not
two Sparrows sold for (an _Assarium_?) our _English_ readeth it, for a
_farthing_? It valueth of ours, in precise speaking, q^{a.}--q.
[783] _Drusius in præter. Luc. 12. 59._
_Their silver Coyns._
גרה _Gerah_. It was the twentieth part of the shekel of the Sanctuary;
_A shekel is twenty Gerahs_, _Exod. 30. 13._ It was the least silver
coyn among the _Hebrews_; it valued of ours 1 _d. ob._
אגורת _Agorath_: We English it in general, _a piece of silver_, _1
Sa. 2. 36._ But it _appeareth_ by the _Chaldee paraphrase_, that it is
of the _same_ value with _Gerah_; that _paraphrase_ renders both מעא
_Megna_; by the _Greek_ they are both rendred ὄβολος the value therof
therfore is 1 _d. ob._
קשיטה _Keshitah_. The word signifieth a _lamb_, and is used for a
certain _coyn_ among the _Hebrews_, on the one side whereof the Image
of a _lamb_ was stamped; our _English_ reads it in general, _a piece
of mony_. _Jacob_ bought a parcel of a field for an hundred _pieces of
mony_, _Gen. 33. 19._ In the original it is, for an hundred _lambs_.
But it is apparent, that _Jacob_ paid _mony_; for S. _Stephen_
saith, he bought it for _mony_, _Act. 7. 16._ In the judgment of the
_Rabbines_,[784] it was the same that _Obolus_, _twenty of them went to
a shekel_;[785] so that the value thereof was 1 _d. ob._
[784] _R. Solom. Gen. 33. 19. It. R. David. in lib. radic. It.
Levi ben Gers. Gen. 33. 19._
[785] _Drus. ad diffic. loca, Gen. p. 119._
כסף _Ceseph_, ἀργύριον _Argenteus_, _a piece of silver_: as the
_Romans_ numbred their sums by _Sesterces_, insomuch that _Nummus_
is oftentimes put absolutly to signifie the same as _Sestertius_: So
the _Hebrews_ counted their sums by _shekels_, and the _Grecians_ by
_Drachmæ_: Hence _Argenteus_, _a piece of silver_, being put absolutely
in the _Bible_, if mention in that place be of the _Hebrew_ coyns, it
standeth for a _shekel_, and valueth 2 _s._ 6 _d._ if it stand for the
_shekel of the sanctuary_: if it stand for a _common shekel_, then it
valueth 1 _s._ 3 _d._ But if mention be of the _Greek coyns_, as _Acts
19. 19._ then it signifieth the _Attick Drachma_, which valueth of our
money 1 _d. ob._
Δραχμὴ, _Luk. 15. 8._ It was a _quarter of a shekel_,[786] and thus by
consequence it valued of ours 7 _d. ob._
[786] _Breerwood de nummis._
Δίδραχμον, _Didrachmon_; _Mat. 17. 24._ We _English_ it _tribute
money_: The _Syriack_ readeth _Duo Zuzim_;[787] now that coyn which was
termed _Zuz_ by the _Hebrews_, was answerable to the _Roman Denair_;
whence it appeareth, that it valued of ours 1 _s._ 3 _d._
[787] _תרין זוזין_
Στατὴρ, _Stater_. We English it a _piece of money_ at large, but it
contained precisely _two didrachmas_. For the _tribute money_ to be
paid for each person, was _Didrachmum_, as is evident, _Mat. 17. 24._
and this _Stater_ was paid for _two_, namely, for _Christ_ and _Peter_,
the value of it therefore was, 2 _s._ 6 _d._