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Show 94 Of their Feaj11. LIB. I I I. ~ a"':lop their manner of futing was termed (z) Mefibtth, 11 J?tfcuh~~1(1:;JI'ji.·ttino round; ~nd their phrafe ofinviting their guefis J~«l ra"tx ep ~ W ·11 fi d ))0 circ-umi- to fit down was Sit ro~tnd: e Wt not 1t roun t~it, ..Ambivk until he co~e hir'her, J Sam. I 6. I I. Again, Thy children fhall be as Olive-plants round about thy table, Pfol. rz8. 3· This cu_fl:om of lying alo?g up~n a hed, when they took thetr meat, . was alfo tn fife tn . Ezekiel's time; Thou fateft upon a fiateiy hed, and a a Philo ]wcl.p. table ?~epared bhefore ~' Eze4f· 2 3h·4 J. (a) And 6 whe- 3a3. ther thts \Vere ~ e c_unorne o t e ancteot He _rews, I leave to be dtfcuHed by others. But unto thts alfo doth Amos allude; They laid thernfelves down upon cloaths Jzid to pledge by every Altar, Amos2 ,8. that b Jl'etu./f;JimN~ is, the· (b) garments taken to pledge they ~te in ftea~ 1 11101 e~a,';h~£!1 of bed1, when at their Altars they eat thtngs facn::~ taini afct t"lm bere.~i ficed to· Idols : Ye a, t he p1 u c k. ff h . n.. 1 tng o t etr auooes pour at ~ellel wht:n they went to.table,implieth this cufiom oflying r1zddere "· ~el b · Th ] k erat• ovid. at the Table, to have ·een very ancient. e p uc - ing off their £hooes feeme_th to have beet? gener~lly received, when they were Jn Egypt; for th1s caufe 1s It that they had a fhict charge in eating the Paffover, to have their iliooes on their feet, for greater expedition. The reafon why they ufuall y pluckt them off, was, for the clean keeping of their Beds on which they lay. Here, feeing _the rule of obferving t?e Paffe.~ over requireth, that 1t iliould be eaten wah thetr fuooes on their feet, which argueth rather fiaNding than lji11g upoa dl hed; it may be demanded, Whether chri.ft tranfgre.lfed not againfi the firfr Infiitution thereof. in the man net' of his fitting at the table? '.tremeliw ;nfwereth thus; and, in .my mind~fully: (c) We c 'l'rtmel. in mufi: know, faith he, that Exod. 1 2. it was comrnaQd .. MAt~ ~6.ao. f ed, after what manner they, ready to depart out o E~pt, thould eat the Pajfoever at that time; for the · neceffity L 1 B. II I. of their F~4ji1. 95 neceffity of that time fa require~, namely, an haH_y ting thereof; but afterward, tn the Law, where tt ~a commanded that this Ceremony of the Pafchal fhould be renewed every year, thofe words are not added. Wherefore all the Heb~ew DD~orJ, both an. cient and modern, do teach wuh one Joynt .confent, that the Commandment of fprinkjint, the doer-p-o~J 'th blood of having on their foooes, of girding their z;ns, of :ai{ing ~aves in their ha_ndJ~ and eating the Lamb in hqft ; did not extend It felf to the genera• tions following, but only to have concerned_ that very night, wherei~ they de_P~rted out of EgJp!: (d) d 'l'~tlmut/J Yea it was an ancient tradition among~t them, that trall. de 'f'afwhe~ they did in alter-times eat the Paffover, they chate vid. Tr~- would fit down, or 1e a~ upon a b· e d , a_s our_s~evr·o Nr m•uecli.tlot~ctoo [.I t pert ~ and his Difciples did, 1n token of thetr deliverance obtained. · · The parties that gave entertainment at their Feafls were two; J. (e) The l'vla/ier of the houfe. 2. The ~fa- c Vid . cajau~on jJer of the Feaft; they differed thus: The Mafler ofthe _exercu.p. :l18· !Joufo was termed rf'Ji1 ~l'J Baal haheth, oll,ol'.t~'llhn~, PAter familitH. The JUafler of the Fe":ft was termed nrtelll ~'J:r Baal mifchte, «rxne1"""'"®-, Triclinii Prt£fe- O~. The A-/after of the Fe'!ft ~as~hecheiffervant,at-tending the Ma.fterofthe houfe tn t1me of theFeafr. O-thers add a (.g) third fort, whom they would have to G J • be Pr£fe0t. morum, .tn G ree k_ t he y were termed Bg rlxai1ll1n"elfnstt.1v1i1d • ~1,6'81«~. Thdr Office was thought to have been the C1[1111hon. ihitl. infpettion of the Ouefis, that none fhould diforder themfelves by drinking too much; whence they were called 6~~a,..~ol, theeJeJtJfthe Fea{i. Such kind of 0fficers were in-Ufe in Aha/Herofo his Court, Ejih.1. 8. ana likewife among the (h) Atheniii"S; bUt Whether hA.Jhrn,,,; any fuch belonged unto the ·Jew.t is ju.fily <Joubted. '· Jo. The: |