[218] Epiphan. Tom. 2. l. 3. c. 80.
[219] Beza. Act. 16. 13.
[220] Philo Jud. de vita Mosis, p. 530.
[221] R. Juda. in lib. Musar. vide Drus. præs. Matth. 6. 5.
[222] Qua te quæro Proseucha? Juven. Sat. 3.
The[223] Talmudists taxed the peoples negligence in prayer, saying they used three sorts of Amen, and all faulty. A faint Amen, when they prayed without fervency. A hasty Amen, when they said Amen, before the prayer was done. A lazy Amen, when they pronounced it at length, as if they were asleep, dividing the word A-men. The first they termed יתומה Jethoma, pupillum. The second חטופה Chetupah, Surreptitium. The third, קטועה Ketugna, Sectile, quasi in duas partes sectum per oscitantiam.
[223] Caninius de locis N. Testam. cap. 5. p. 38.
CHAP. III.
Of the Gates of Jerusalem.
The gates of the whole circuit of the[224] wall about Jerusalem were nine: The Sheep-gate, Neh. 3. 1. This was near the Temple, and thorow it were led the Sheep which were to be sacrificed, being washed in the Pool Bethsada near the gate: The Fish-gate Nehem. 3. 3. before this Judas is thought to have hanged himself. Some[225] think that these two Gates, and likewise the Horse gate, Nehem. 3. 28. were so called, because they were in manner of three several Market places, and at the one Gate, Sheep, at the other, Fish, and at the third, Horses were sold. The Old gate was so called, because it was supposed to have remained from the time of the Jebusites, and not to have been destroyed by the Assyrians; it was near Calvary, and without this Gate Christ was crucified. Concerning the other Gates little is spoken.