Part I. From the beginning of the Gospels to the Baptism of our

Saviour._ The second part _From the Baptism of our Saviour to the first Passover after_ followed in 1647, and the third _From the first Passover after our Saviour's Baptism to the second_ in 1650. On the 26th of August 1645 he again preached before the House of Commons on the day of their monthly fast. His text was Rev. xx. 1, 2. After controverting the doctrine of the Millenaries, he urged various practical suggestions for the repression with a strong hand of current blasphemies, for a thorough revision of the authorized version of the Scriptures, for the encouragement of a learned ministry, and for a speedy settlement of the church. In the same year appeared _A Commentary upon the Acts of the Apostles, chronical 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). In 1647 he published _The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the Old Testament_, which was followed in 1655 by _The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the New Testament_, inscribed to Cromwell. In 1654 Lightfoot had been chosen vice-chancellor of the university of Cambridge, but continued to reside by preference at Munden, in the rectory of which, as well as in the mastership of Catharine Hall, he was confirmed at the Restoration. The remainder of his life was devoted to helping Brian Walton with the Polyglot Bible (1657) and to his own best-known work, the _Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae_, in which the volume relating to Matthew appeared in 1658, that relating to Mark in 1663, and those relating to 1 Corinthians, John and Luke, in 1664, 1671 and 1674 respectively. While travelling from Cambridge to Ely (where he had been collated in 1668 by Sir Orlando Bridgman to a prebendal stall), he caught a severe cold, and died at Ely on the 6th of December 1675. The _Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae impensae in Acta Apostolorum et in Ep. S. Pauli ad Romanos_ were published posthumously.

The _Works_ of Lightfoot were first edited, in 2 vols. fol., by G. Bright and Strype in 1684; the _Opera Omnia, cura Joh. Texelii_, appeared at Rotterdam in 1686 (2 vols. fol.), and again, edited by J. Leusden, at Franeker in 1699 (3 vols. fol.). A volume of _Remains_ was published at London in 1700. The _Hor. Hebr. et Talm_. were also edited in Latin by Carpzov (Leipzig, 1675-1679), and again, in English, by Gandell (Oxford, 1859). The most complete edition is that of the _Whole Works_, in 13 vols. 8vo, edited, with a life, by R. Pitman (London, 1822-1825). It includes, besides the works already noticed, numerous sermons, letters and miscellaneous writings; and also _The Temple, especially as it stood in the Days of our Saviour_ (London, 1650).

See D. M. Welton, _John Lightfoot, the Hebraist_ (Leipzig, 1878).