John Axford

“ The Shekel of Gold of the Temple is four Drams or Half an Ounce, and worth one Pound ten Shillings.
The common Talent of Gold is worth two thousand two hundred and fifty Pounds.
The King's Talent of Gold is worth three thousand three hundred and seventy-five Pounds.
The Talent of Gold of the Sanctuary is worth four thousand five hundred Pounds,
The Jews had another Weight called Mina being not of so much Use as the other; the common Mina of Silver which is six Drams, or thirty seven Shillings and Six pence
The King's Mina being eighty Drams, is fifty Shillings. ”

“ Prophets who were anciently called Seers, who foretold things to come, and denunced Gods Judgments against Idolaters and Evil Doers, and caught the People, Children of the Prophets, their Disciples or Scholars. Wise Men called so in imitation of the Wise Men of the East, or Grecian Philosophers. ”

“ The Kings Çubit one and twenty inches or a hands breadth more than the common. 3. The Cubit of the Sanctuary, contains two of the common, being a full yard. 4. The Geometrical Cubit contains six common Cubits, which is three Yards: according to this Cubit it's thought Noah's Ark was built. A Reed is six common cubits & a hand breadth, which is 3 inches. A Pace is 5 foot; A furlong 125 paces, or 40 Perch. A mile is 1000 paces or 8 Furlongs, but in the Scripture or Hebrew, as much as a man can go in half a day, or between meal and meal. ”

“ Dissenters, who raised and determined Questions out of the Law. Rabbies, Doctors or Teachers of Israel, Libertines or Freedmen of Rome, who, being Jews or Proselytes, had a Synagogue or Oratory to themselves. ”

“ Simon Magus, Author of the Heresy of the Gnostics who taught, that Men, however vicious in their Practices should be saved by their Knowledge. Nicolitains, the Disciples of Nicolas, one of the seven Deacons, who taught the Community of Wives, or Men to have more Wives than one. ”