Our ancient Rabins in _Beresit Rabba_ (no mean book) in _Perasach_, do say that _Tornunsus_ asking how it should appeare that the day which we keep, is the seventh day, on which God rested after the creation of the world; _Rabbi Aquebah_ (who lived 52 yeares after the destruction of the second Temple) answered by an argument taken from the stones of the Sabbatical River, which in the six dayes are tossed up and down with a continuall motion, but do rest on the Sabbath day and move not. The same is said in the _Babylonian Talmud, tractat. Sanhed. c._ 7. _& in Tanuh Perasach. c._ 9. _In eodem Beresit Raba, in Perasach_ 37. _Rabbi Simon_ saith, _The ten Tribes were carried to the Sabbaticall river but Juda and Benjamin are dispersed into all Countrys_. In _Asirim Raba_, the last verse of the Song, its said, _Our bed is flourishing_; that it is meant the ten Tribes, which were carryed to the Sabbaticall river; and that river running all the week, doth cause the ten Tribes there remaining to be shut up; for though on the seventh day the river doth rest, yet it is forbidden by our Law to take a journey then; and for that reason they remained there miraculously, as lost, and concealed from us. So that of _Isa._ 49. _That they say to the prisoners, go forth_, is interpreted of them in _Jalcut_. _R. Aquebah_ after the same manner explains that of _Levit._ 36.38. _And ye shal perish among the heathen._ And that of _Isa._ 27. _ult._ _And they shall come, who were ready to perish in Assyria._ Because they are remote from the rest, therefore another Rabbi in Bamibar _Raba Parasa_ 16. applyes to them that of _Isaiah_ 49.12. _Behold them who come from farre_: that so all those Authors mention that River.