A Popular View of the Correspondency Between the the Mosaic Ritual and the Facts and Doctrines of the Christian Religion, 9 Discourses - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1834 Excerpt: ... DISCOURSE THE EIGHTH. On the times appointed in the Levitical Calendar to he solemnized as sacred--Of the Feast of Pentecost. JXAVING considered the twofold reference, primary and secondary, of the paschal solemnity, I shall now proceed to treat of the feast of Pentecost, (which stands next in the Levitical calendar,) as regarded in the same light. The word Pentecost is of Greek original, and signifies "the "fiftieth;" a name given to this feast, because it was celebrated on the fiftieth day from what is called "the morrow after the sabbath," in the solemnity of the paschal week a; viz. the sixteenth of Abib, or Nisan. But besides this name, it is sometimes called the feast of weeks b, though for a similar reason; viz. because it was celebrated seven weeks, or a week of weeks, after the same date. Sometimes too it is denominated the feast of harvest0; because the corn harvest, which commenced in Judaea about the time of the passover, usually terminated at some period of the interval between this feast and that of Pentecost. It is known also as the day of thefirstfruits; because a Lev. xxiii. 15, 16; Deut. xvi. 9. b Exod. xxxiv. 22; Deut. xvi. 10. « Exod. xxiii. 16. upon this day the Jews were commanded to offer unto the Lord a new meat offering, i. e. an offering of loaves made from the corn which had been recently gathered; by the presentation of which, as the firstfruits, the whole remainder of the harvest was conceived to be blessed or sanctified d. But the particular point of view in which I propose now to consider it, is that of a festival intended to commemorate the giving of the Law from mount Sinai. For as the day, ever after fixed for the observance of the solemnity, coincided in point of time with the anniversary of that event, the learned, b...

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