The testimony of _Josephus_ is famous, _lib._ 7. _de Bel. Jud. cap._ 24. saying, _The Emperour Titus passing between Arca, and Raphanea, Cities of King Agrippa, he saw the wonderfull river, which though it be swift, yet it is dry on every seventh day; and that day being past, it resumes its ordinary course, as if it had no change; and it always observes this order. It is called Sabbaticall; from the solemne feast of the Jews, because it imitates their rest every seventh day._ I know some do otherwise expound those words of _Josephus_, but they hit not his meaning, as appears by this, that he calls the River, Sabbathio, or sabbaticall: which word cannot be derived but from Sabbath; and who doth not see that it ceaseth to flow, or move, on the Sabbath day; and so _Josephus_ must be understood according to my sense. _Pliny_ also confirms this opinion, _lib._ 1. _Nat. hist. c._ 2. he saith, _In Judea a River lies dry every Sabbath_; yet I think _Pliny_ is deceived and ill informed, when he saith it is a River in Judea; neither is to be found in Judea, but in another place, where many Jewes live. _R. Selomoh Jarchi_ who lived 540. years since mentions that River in _Comment. Talm._ saying, The stones, and sand of that River do continually move all the six dayes of the week, until the seventh. _R. Mardochus Japhe_ in his learned book _Jephe Thoar_ saith, The _Arabians_ derive Sabbathion from the Sabbath, who use to adde the particle (ion) to adjectives. The same saith, that it was told him of an hour-glasse filled with the sand of Sabbathion, which ranne all the weeke till the Sabbath. And I heard the same from my father; which testimony I account as good, as if I saw it my selfe; (for fathers do not use to impose upon their sons.) He told me that there was an Arabian at _Lisborn_, who had such an hour-glasse; and that every Friday at evening he would walk in the street called the new street, and shew this glasse to Jewes who counterfeited Christianity, and say, _Ye Jewes, shut up your shops, for now the Sabbath comes_. Another worthy of credit, told me of another hour-glasse, which he had some years before, before the Port _Mysketa_. The Cadi, or Judge of that place, saw him by chance passing that way, and asked him, what it was? he commanded it to be taken away; rebuking the Mahomitans, that by this, they did confirme the Jewish Sabbath. I should not speak of these glasses, if the authority of such a man whom I have alledged, did not move me; though I beleeve that God did not only work that miracle, that he might keep part of the ten Tribes there, but other also, as you may see in _Esdras_. _R. Moses Gerundensis_ a learned Cabalist, and Interpreter of the Law in _Parasa Aazinu_, thinks the River Sabbathion to be the same with Gozan, of Guz, which signifies to snatch away, because except the seventh day, on all the other, it carryes with it, by its swiftnesse, the very stones. Of this there is