. Jewish antiquities: . onfequently this was the fame time of the yearin which he was born. Vol. II. R Fur- {n) Matt. xxiv. 20. [b) Pfal. cxlvii. 16, 17, * See his Harmony on Luke iii. 2i„(<?) Luke iii. 23. 242 The time of Chrifts birth. B. III. Further, Jofeph Scaliger obferves, that thetwenty tour courfes of the priefts, which wentthrough the vear, began with the month Nifanabout the vernal equinox ; and that confequent-ly the eighth courfe, to which Zacharias belong-ed, minitlred in the latter part of July. Iffrom thence you reckon the five months to thevirgins conception, and nine more
. Jewish antiquities: . onfequently this was the fame time of the yearin which he was born. Vol. II. R Fur- {n) Matt. xxiv. 20. [b) Pfal. cxlvii. 16, 17, * See his Harmony on Luke iii. 2i„(<?) Luke iii. 23. 242 The time of Chrifts birth. B. III. Further, Jofeph Scaliger obferves, that thetwenty tour courfes of the priefts, which wentthrough the vear, began with the month Nifanabout the vernal equinox ; and that confequent-ly the eighth courfe, to which Zacharias belong-ed, minitlred in the latter part of July. Iffrom thence you reckon the five months to thevirgins conception, and nine more for her gef-tation, the birth of Chrift will fall in the latterend of September, that is, at the feafon of thefeaft of tabernacles *. * See Scalig. Fragment, p. 58, 59. ad calcejn emend,Temp. Medes Diatrib. difc. xlvni. on Deut. Xvi. 16.(Thrills birth mifUmed, a Traft. No. iv. in the Phenix,1707. and in defence of the common opinion, SeldeRon the Birth-day of our Saviour, arud Opera, vol. 3. p. 1405. et CHAP. C 243 } CHAP. VII. Of the fcaft of Trumpets andNew Moons. AVI N G confidered the three grand fes-tivals, at which all the male Ifraelites,who were able, were obliged to afiemble at thenational altar, we proceed to confider the lefTerfeafts, of which fome were menftrual, othersannual. The menftrual were the new moons,which were kept on the fir ft day of everymonth ; and of thefe one was more remarkableand to be obferved with greater Solemnity than,the reft ; namely,- on the firft day of the monthTifri. This is ftiled the feaft of trumpets/ It is proper firft to confider the commonnew moon feaft, of which we find no otherinstitution in the law of Mofes, than meerly ^prescription of certain Sacrifices to be offered onthe day of the new moon, or which is the fame,on the firft day of the month, over and abovethe faCriffces that were daily offered (a). The Sacrifices, prefcribed on this occafion, are two young bullocks, one ram and feven R 2 lambs See Numb, xxvii
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