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Show TfanjlatifJn ofFeafl-s. L TB. I l t And this tranflation they noted with this abbreviati· on n\ that is~ 1 8. becaufe of thofe eighteen hours w llich occafioned it, T he reafon of Politic~ tranflation . was, that two· SabbathJ, or feafi-days might not immediately follow ~~n"J.";;·3~a· each other: (h). becaufe fay they, it was unlawful thofe two daies to drefs meat, or bury the dead; and it was like wife inconvenient to keep meat dreffed, or the dead unburied two daies. Yet here two ex~epti:ons muU be remembred, when the meeting of two. Sabbaths could not be avoided. · Fir.ft, When the rajfover, or the fifteenth day of Nifan, fell on SaturdaJ r for then the Pentecoji muft needs fall ·on"sundAJ. Secondly, When the P·a.!fover fell onSu-ndaJ; for then their Paffov.er immediate! y followed their weefxlj Sahb'ath.; j H?fpinian• de The_firfi ( i) Author of this Peliticl{tranjiation W'fs, Ott,.jejl.p .6· a certain chief man amongfl: them, named Elea.zar1 ; . . · three hundred and. fifty ye~us before cbrifl his f\J~ati· viiJ. The feveral fpecics or kinds ofPoliticl~.}ranjlation, were five. The firfi, ,,N Adu. The iecond , ,lJ B11du . The third, Xi1l Gahaz.. The fourth, 1J~ z~b a d. The fifth~ ,,N Ag11,. For the. underftanding of thefe abhreviatures, w-e mufi know,. that in thefe maJe \Vords the letters only fiand for numbers, and are appli ed , to. the feven daies of the week , thus N I. Sunday :I 2. Munday. l 3· Tuejday ., 4· Wednefday. i1 5.1hurfday . , 6 .. Friday., r 7. Saturday: which was the Jews Sabbath. · . - Their rules touching Po.fi!ic4 tranflatitJn , fiood thus. (a) Firfi, that neither their New·JCttr.r d~t;·, w . .hi<;h w;ts . ~he fir ft .. of the month .. Tifri. ; neither their LIB. I l I: TYtt11j/ation of FealfJ 1':5 _ their Feafi ofTabtrnacleJ, which was the fifteenth day of the fame month , fhould be celebrated on Adu that is on Sunday~ or Wednefday, or· Frid11y. Not 0~ Snnd4J~ or Friday, _be~aufe. then the weel{ly Sdbbath. muff need_s-eoncu: wtth tt, etther going immediately before, or followtng after: not on Wednefdt~y becaufe then the Fe aft "f expiation, which is the tenth of that month, would fall on Friday the day going immediately before their wee/Jy Sabbath. · This in ~ fiance is only concerning the firfl: of Tifri, which is called the Feafl of tr~111pet1: _but it holdeth alfoJ by Wa¥ ofconfequence, 1n the ffteenth dtJ}, which is the FeaflJ of _Tabernac/et, becaufe the fifteenth mufi alz:s ways neceffirily be of the fame day of the weMi; that the firf't is. Therefore if the firft be not /ld11 th~~ fifteenth cannot be Adu~ .. ;. ' The (b) fecond rule was, that! the p affovc~ fi1ould b Baaw. not be obferved on Badu,; that is on M~tnday, wed· nefday, or Friday.- The (c) th.ird rule _is, that PentecojJ was not obfer ... c Gaha~a · ved on ~ahaz; ; that 1s, on TuefJay, ThurfrlaJ, or sa .. turday., The( d) founh ·ruleds, that the F eaf+· o~.PuritJt . or .fl.' l br. 9 ' 'J . ' d Zah 11d oap,tng otJ, was not o 1erved on Zabad:J, tha.t i s~ on ~ Munday,. Wednefaay , or Saturday. The (e) fitrh rule is, that the .F eafl of expiation was e Ag~t • .. .no~ obferv€d on Ag1t ; . tha t. is, on Sunday.;. Tuefday., or Frtday,. Mixt tran(lation is, W·hen both the L~t~nttry and the Politic'<_ meet in the cbaoging ofdaies. And the tr-an .. j/4ltion occa ~10n oo by this.m i x~ure or meeting of both thefe two, 1s twofold . .. Frrit, Simple .•. And fecondly Double. ' Si.t~tple· tr/i.n11atio?t*~ w~en theFr.afi.is .traofl.ated to ·"· K 3 the "' |