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Show 1 16 Oft heir Pentec4J, LIB. 11 J. b ~calig cle e- -the J\;v1~e.stj then they offered a (h) jbNtf of t'he fo·me mend.temp.l.6~ fruits ofz heir httrvefl, Levit. 2 3. I o. Upon the Pentec K~ 7 he cofl, then they ofiered two wave loll'ln, L--e'Vit.23· x.7. Ml'-"~v J'n~l);the Jbeafbeiog an Oblation offered ;n the name of the crl~ ¥~t)t ,;~,whole Congregati<:>n , whereby all the after· frui,ts ~ il'!:t ~~ei- throughout the land were fanttified~ (c) · it being ~HY? ro{eph. from thence afterWard lawful~ ttOd 110t bdOfe, tO reap nnq. +r.:c. the Corn! the two loavJ being not only an ENa_h~ri-flical Oblation, but alfo a token of the Harvefi finiilied and ended. In the fecond place we are to know l that they did count thefe fifty daies by numoring toe Week..s from the Jliu1i~·, whence it was called a Fe aft of weefts. The manner how they counted the week!,. was, according to the number of the Sabbaths ~ol· lowing the J'ev1i~. Thus the fid1: Sabbath follow1ng they called· l.tv1te.9'11'fe~1ov 11da~tt1o,: the fecond, l'tu'fleeJ• dS.:alit.lih.6.J'tJ7t'eJY: the third J'tv1te}7~1ov, O'"C. So th~t (d)all doe emend.temp the Z:Veei{J and sahbath1, during the time of the Pente~ P 260• cofi; as the jirft, fecond, third, andfourt.h, &c. too~ their denomination from J'iv14~ ~ which obfervatlon giveth light to that of S. Lu4e, Luke. 16. I. where there is mention of a Sabb.at.h. termed lev7seJ.,.~"'1·or, , that is _, the fecond -firft Sabb.ath> and by it is meant the sabbath ~ext after t ~e Jixteentb of Nijan,. which was the Jt•v1ie_st.. Seeing that thefeftfty. daies did mea .. fure out the time of the ir HarveH:, it will not be amifs e Plin.l. 1 g. to obferve the. difference be t~ixt t~eir ~~rve~t and ~ap. r8.1llud ours, which chtefiy confifted tn thetr anttctpauon of 1pJwm cnfirma_r time; for both the C anaaHites and the .&.gpptians be- Ltie.uo7 .bA-if]rn., tefJ· H·g an thet• r Harve {t ab out t be ( e) fi r (l". of Aprt. 1, l· t w.as De[cript. Afr. qJ]ite finifbed in /YlttJ'. 1Jb.8,e . ~ LIB III. The F~aft o fTa·hernMleJ. 117 -~---.,...---_---~ ..... __ _.___ . C H A ~ • . V f. . . The F_ea.ft .ofTahernaclel T He (a) Greek, word ufed to exprefs this Fefii. a J~tnfen . €4tt-l • vthity() 1 p)rc:_rberly fignifid. eth the"~~:htgbof'taber· ~:~~ ~:hel.';1, nac es . e v ne re_w wor , a Feqp, o1 Ta ernacleJ. Jaan. 7• . The reafon of both ts, becaufe all the time of this ffi<lwo~~>lr~, Fe aft, which was full feven daies, (from the fifteenth non trK.nl'o~:. of Tifri, untill the one and twentieth thereof) the ,ret. peop I e remar·n e d J· n 1 ab e rnac le s an d Boot hs made of Cb /;rant. ohnnf ~cc1aJt~b Boughs, in manner of Arbors and Bowers; yet fo; that the firft day ofthofe feven, and the laft were after a more fpecial manner to be obferved 'as ho!J Cflnvocation.r. . ' Concerning thefe Booths, the ·JenrJ write tht1s: ( 4·) . They ought to ~e made in the open Air, not d Mimfltr fie ... · w tthtn doors, nor under the fuelter of a Tree; they vit,2 3• ought not to be covered wirh cloaths , nor to .11€!' ~])~de too clofe with the thicknef.. of the Boughs; but wtth fuch holes that the Sun a~d t~e St~rs n1ight be feen thorow· them, and the ra1n hkew1fe dtfcend thorow thtrn.. In ~hefe they ought to dwell thofe feven d~ys, as In tht·n houies; they ought to furnifh them wtth houfhold::fiuff to ly under them and fleep ~nder them; only in : ainy .weather, then' they had ]Jberty to eat and Oeep 1n their houfes, untill the rain was over-pa(t. Feeble perfons alfo, which could not endure the fm.ell ,of_ th~ e~rth, were perrnited to {lay at home. In Nehemrah s time they made their Booths forne upon the roof oftbtir hou{es ( for their houfe; were made flat above) Det~.t. ~.z . 8. Some in their · Q 3 CourtsJ., |