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Show fi S The Feafl of TaberndcleJ. LIB. I IT. Courts, fome in their ftreets, Nehe~· s. t 1·~ . Plutarch making mention of this _F e~tvtty, fatth, e Plu.rarcb. that (e) thefe Boot·ks were made pnnctpally o~ ~vy Sympo(·4· I'rt- boughs: but the Scrt pture reckoneth up four dijl1nfJ blem. $• hilnds, Levit. 2 3. 40. which are ~bought to be, 1. The Cittern tree. 2. 'The Palm- tree. 3. Tb:e ~fJrtle tree' · 4 1'he WtUow of ~he Brook: (f) The R4bbins teach, that fP. F at.Levtr. • 'J • h' b d .:..c h :2 3• every man brought every morntng .1s ur en ,Yl t e boughs of thefe four Trees, otherwtfe he fa!te~ that ,. g E.litU Thuhit day. And this burden they terme~ (g) Hofanna: tn allufion unto this the peopl~ cutttng, down branches form . the Trees, and Cl:reWtng them 1~ the w~y when ours aviour did ride into Jeru[Alem,crted, faytng, Ho· fonna to the Son of David, /vlat. 2 I. 9• Plutarch fcoffing the jews, compares this Feafi: ~ith t~at drunken Fei\:ival in the honour of Bacchll:f, 1n w~tch t~e Ba~-. chides ran up an down with ~ertain Javehngs ,ta the.tr hand~ wrapped about with Ivy, called 6vfcro• and tn this r;fpeCt he termeth this feafi: of the Jews 9ur~t.t.q>od.r.v .A bearing about of th~(e Thy~ili. That teafl:. whtch the Athenians term "f,,etcrluvn, was not much ~nhke. Moreover on the next day after thts f~afr, they h H~[piniAn. Jt compafied ·the Altar ( k) feven times wtth PahnOrig. fe/f.~a' 7· boughs in their hands, tn the remembrance of the :~~~=:~.~~~~: overthrow of Jericho.· for which re~fo?, or elfe be-caufe that Palm branches were the chtef tn the hufldle, it was called Dies Palmarum, ~aim . Fe aft. Concerning the reafon oft~Is Feafi; fume areO~· o pinjon that it was infiituted In memory oftha.t p o .. tefriod which the Lord vouchfafed the Ifraelit~s Y the Cloud when they travelled thorow the Wtl ,r .. nefs, uncle; the fbadow of which th_ey ~ravelle~~-as un· der afafe Booth or Tent •. Onlte!os t~ h.ts chaldee Par~· fjhra"e feemeth to incline to tbts optnion. Wh,ere the r IJ'' F.Eehre'IP LIB. I I I. The Feaji ofT~tbernacles. 119 Hebrew readeth; That ye~~rpofleritJ may !{now, that 1 have made the children of Ifrael to dwell in Booths, Lev • l3 ·43· The chaldee rendereth it, That your pqflerity may }znow that 1 have made Jbe children of I{rael to dwelt ( i) in the Jhadow ofCloudJ. (~)Others think it was in- cn'7tcC'J fiituted as a folemn thankfgiving unto God for their k -r'h J.f,lJ).V VI. ntage, w h· t'ch was gat he re d.I n at t h·a t tt.m e o fht e J siiOP'>Ja~'"lt 6hn 5• ·year; thence it is that they conceive thofe Pfalms of David, which are entituled n,nt;, '7y pro torcularibm, to have been compofed for this feaH. Ochers [peak more probably !I who affign the caufe to be in me .. mary of their Fore·fathers dwelling in Tent1 and Ta· hernaclef; the Text i" clear, Levit.23.43· ·The Sacrifices which rwere offered thefe ft·ven rlaies,are prefcribed: Numb. 29. from the thir;teenth verfe to the thirty fourth, where we £hall read every day the like Sacrifice, but only with this difference, that upon the fir1t day they offered thirteen young bullocks, upon the fecond twelve, upon the third eleven_, and fo forw.ud, ever diminilliing the number by , one. (I) The reafon of which diminution, the jews J Tto{pin;11,, J.e· deliver to be thi~: the whole number of bullocks Orig,bHju,fifis to be offered at this folemnity was fiventy' accord- . ing to ·the Languages of the feventy Nati()ns, (for whom, as they te.1ch , thefe facrifices were perform· ed) fignifying rhereby, that there fhould be a diminu't tion of thofe Nations, unt11 all things were brought under the government of the 114effiar who was the· ex.o pectation and Hope oft he Gentile.r. , ·rhe two and twentieth of the month Tifri, was in truth a diftinfr feaft, as appeareth, Neh. 8. 18. butt yet becauft! this immediately followed the f eaft of 1 aher~tacle.r, it hath been al,wa~ys counted t be lafi: day of that Fea{l. And not only the ho,.ghs, but the J.1VJ.. c I .J |