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For the 18th-century biologist, see <a href="/wiki/John_Lightfoot_(biologist)" title="John Lightfoot (biologist)">John Lightfoot (biologist)</a>. For the 19th-century clergyman, see <a href="/wiki/John_Prideaux_Lightfoot" title="John Prideaux Lightfoot">John Prideaux Lightfoot</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Lightfoot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/John_Lightfoot.jpg/220px-John_Lightfoot.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/John_Lightfoot.jpg/330px-John_Lightfoot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/John_Lightfoot.jpg/440px-John_Lightfoot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="548" data-file-height="689" /></a><figcaption>John Lightfoot</figcaption></figure> <p><b>John Lightfoot</b> (29 March 1602 – 6 December 1675) was an <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">English</a> churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> and Master of <a href="/wiki/St_Catharine%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St Catharine's College, Cambridge">St Catharine's College, Cambridge</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Lightfoot&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was born in <a href="/wiki/Stoke-on-Trent" title="Stoke-on-Trent">Stoke-on-Trent</a>, the son of Thomas Lightfoot, vicar of <a href="/wiki/Uttoxeter" title="Uttoxeter">Uttoxeter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a>. He was educated at Morton Green near <a href="/wiki/Congleton" title="Congleton">Congleton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a>, and at <a href="/wiki/Christ%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="Christ's College, Cambridge">Christ's College, Cambridge</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he was regarded as the best <a href="/wiki/Orator" title="Orator">orator</a> among the undergraduates. After taking his degree he became assistant master at <a href="/wiki/Repton_School" title="Repton School">Repton School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>; after taking orders, he was appointed curate of "Norton-under-Hales" (i.e. <a href="/wiki/Norton_in_Hales" title="Norton in Hales">Norton in Hales</a>) in <a href="/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire">Shropshire</a>. There he attracted the notice of Sir <a href="/wiki/Rowland_Cotton" title="Rowland Cotton">Rowland Cotton</a>, an amateur <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebraist</a>, who made him his domestic chaplain at Bellaport. Shortly after the removal of Sir Rowland to <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, Lightfoot, abandoning an intention to go abroad, accepted a charge at <a href="/wiki/Stone,_Staffordshire" title="Stone, Staffordshire">Stone, Staffordshire</a>, where he continued for about two years. From Stone he removed to <a href="/wiki/Hornsey" title="Hornsey">Hornsey</a>, near London, for the sake of reading in the library of <a href="/wiki/Sion_College" title="Sion College">Sion College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 1630 he was presented by Cotton to the rectory of <a href="/wiki/Ashley,_Staffordshire" title="Ashley, Staffordshire">Ashley, Staffordshire</a>, where he remained until June 1642. He then went to London, probably to supervise the publication of his work, <i>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</i>. Soon after his arrival in London he became minister of St Bartholomew's Church, near the Exchange.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lightfoot was one of the original members of the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Assembly" title="Westminster Assembly">Westminster Assembly</a>; his "Journal of the Proceedings of the Assembly of Divines from January 1, 1643 to December 31, 1644" is a valuable historical source for the brief period to which it relates. He was assiduous in his attendance, and, though frequently standing alone, especially in the <a href="/wiki/Erastianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Erastianism">Erastian controversy</a>, he exercised considerable influence on the outcome of the discussions of the Assembly.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was made Master of <a href="/wiki/St_Catharine%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St Catharine's College, Cambridge">Catharine Hall</a> (renamed <a href="/wiki/St_Catharine%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St Catharine's College, Cambridge">St Catharine's College</a>) by the parliamentary visitors of Cambridge in 1643, and also, on the recommendation of the Assembly, was promoted to the rectory of <a href="/wiki/Great_Munden" title="Great Munden">Much Munden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hertfordshire" title="Hertfordshire">Hertfordshire</a>; he kept both appointments until his death.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1654 Lightfoot had been chosen vice-chancellor of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>, but continued to live at Munden, in the rectory of which, as well as in the mastership of <a href="/wiki/St_Catharine%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St Catharine's College, Cambridge">Catharine Hall</a>, he was confirmed at the <a href="/wiki/English_Restoration" class="mw-redirect" title="English Restoration">Restoration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While travelling from Cambridge to <a href="/wiki/Ely,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Ely, England">Ely</a>, where he had been collated in 1668 by Sir <a href="/wiki/Sir_Orlando_Bridgeman,_1st_Baronet,_of_Great_Lever" title="Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever">Orlando Bridgeman</a> to a <a href="/wiki/Prebendal_stall" class="mw-redirect" title="Prebendal stall">prebendal stall</a>, he caught a severe cold, and died at Ely.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lightfoot bequeathed his library of <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> books and documents to <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>. It was destroyed in a fire at Harvard in 1764.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Lightfoot&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Allegorische_figuur_met_Joodse_man_Titelpagina_voor_John_Lightfoot,_Opera_Joannis_Ligtfooti_omnia,_1686,_RP-P-2016-841.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Allegorische_figuur_met_Joodse_man_Titelpagina_voor_John_Lightfoot%2C_Opera_Joannis_Ligtfooti_omnia%2C_1686%2C_RP-P-2016-841.jpg/220px-Allegorische_figuur_met_Joodse_man_Titelpagina_voor_John_Lightfoot%2C_Opera_Joannis_Ligtfooti_omnia%2C_1686%2C_RP-P-2016-841.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Allegorische_figuur_met_Joodse_man_Titelpagina_voor_John_Lightfoot%2C_Opera_Joannis_Ligtfooti_omnia%2C_1686%2C_RP-P-2016-841.jpg/330px-Allegorische_figuur_met_Joodse_man_Titelpagina_voor_John_Lightfoot%2C_Opera_Joannis_Ligtfooti_omnia%2C_1686%2C_RP-P-2016-841.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Allegorische_figuur_met_Joodse_man_Titelpagina_voor_John_Lightfoot%2C_Opera_Joannis_Ligtfooti_omnia%2C_1686%2C_RP-P-2016-841.jpg/440px-Allegorische_figuur_met_Joodse_man_Titelpagina_voor_John_Lightfoot%2C_Opera_Joannis_Ligtfooti_omnia%2C_1686%2C_RP-P-2016-841.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3616" data-file-height="5414" /></a><figcaption>John Lightfoot. <i>Opera omnia</i>. Rotterdam: <a href="/wiki/Reinier_Leers" title="Reinier Leers">Reinier Leers</a>, 1686.</figcaption></figure> <p>His first published work, entitled <i>Erubhin</i>, or <i>Miscellanies, Christian and Judaical</i>, written in his spare time and dedicated to Cotton, appeared in London in 1629.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1643 Lightfoot published <i>A Handful of Gleanings out of the Book of Exodus</i>. Also in 1643 he was appointed to preach the sermon before the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_England" title="House of Commons of England">House of Commons</a> on occasion of the public fast of 29 March. It was published under the title of <i>Elias Redivivus</i>, the text being <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.esv.org/Luke+1:17">Luke 1:17</a>; in it a parallel is drawn between the <a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a>'s ministry and the work of reformation which in the preacher's judgment was incumbent on the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_England" title="Parliament of England">Parliament</a> of his own day.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1644 the first instalment of an unfinished work was published in London. The full title was <i>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 Saviour</i>. The second part, <i>From the Baptism of our Saviour to the first Passover after</i>, followed in 1647, and the third, <i>From the first Passover after our Saviour's Baptism to the second</i>, in 1650. On 26 August 1645 he again preached before the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_England" title="House of Commons of England">House of Commons</a> on the day of their monthly fast. His text was <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.esv.org/Revelation+20:1">Revelation 20:1–2</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In these books he dated Creation to 3929 BC (see <a href="/wiki/Ussher_chronology#Lightfoot's_Creation" title="Ussher chronology">Ussher chronology</a>). Understanding of Lightfoot's precise meaning has been complicated by an 1896 misquotation of him cited by <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Dickson_White" title="Andrew Dickson White">Andrew Dickson White</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rejecting the doctrine of the <a href="/wiki/Millenarianism" title="Millenarianism">millenarian</a> sects, Lightfoot had various practical suggestions for the repression of current "blasphemies", for a thorough revision of the <a href="/wiki/Authorized_Version" class="mw-redirect" title="Authorized Version">Authorized Version</a> of the Scriptures (<i>On a fresh revision of the English New Testament</i>), for the encouragement of a learned ministry, and for a speedy settlement of the church. <i>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 third year of Claudius)</i> was published later that year. In 1647 came <i>The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the Old Testament</i>, followed in 1655 by <i>The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the New Testament</i>, inscribed to <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He helped <a href="/wiki/Brian_Walton_(bishop)" title="Brian Walton (bishop)">Brian Walton</a> with the <i><a href="/wiki/Polyglot_Bible" class="mw-redirect" title="Polyglot Bible">Polyglot Bible</a></i> (1657). His own best-known work was the <i>Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae</i>, in which the volume relating to the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Gospel of Matthew</a> appeared in 1658, that relating to the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Gospel of Mark</a> in 1663, and those relating to <a href="/wiki/1_Corinthians" class="mw-redirect" title="1 Corinthians">1 Corinthians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">John</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke">Luke</a>, in 1664, 1671, and 1674 respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae impensae in Acta Apostolorum et in Ep. S. Pauli ad Romanos</i> were published posthumously.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Editions">Editions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Lightfoot&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Editions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Works of Lightfoot</i> were first edited, in 2 vols. fol., by George Bright and <a href="/wiki/John_Strype" title="John Strype">John Strype</a> in 1684.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Opera Omnia, cura Joh. Texelii</i>, appeared at Rotterdam in 1686 (2 vols. fol.), and again, edited by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Leusden" title="Johann Leusden">Johann Leusden</a>, at Franeker in 1699 (3 vols. 101.). A volume of <i>Remains</i> was published at London in 1700.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Hor. Hebr. et Talm.</i> were also edited in <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Benedict_Carpzov" class="mw-redirect" title="Johann Benedict Carpzov">Johann Benedict Carpzov</a> (Leipzig, 1675–1679), and again, in English, by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Gandell" title="Robert Gandell">Robert Gandell</a> (Oxford, 1859).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The most complete edition is that of the <i>Whole Works</i>, in 13 vols. 8vo. edited, with a life, by <a href="/wiki/John_Rogers_Pitman" title="John Rogers Pitman">John Rogers Pitman</a> (London, 1822–1825). It includes, besides the works already noticed, numerous sermons, letters and miscellaneous writings; and also <i>The Temple, especially as it stood in the Days of our Saviour</i> (London, 1650).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_2-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Lightfoot&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> </span>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. 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