. Jewish antiquities: . torn. 5. [a Jercm. v. 24, (b) Hof. ii. 8, 9. 2i6 Feafl of unleavened bread. B. Ill* for his blefiing to render their earthly enjoy-ments and pofTefftons profitable and delight-ful (a). There might alfo be a typical fignincation ofthis rite, as referring to the ofChrifl, whofe facrifice and death had been juftbefore reprefented by that of the pafchal lamb,and which is compared by our Lord himfelfto corn falling into the ground and dying, afterwhich it fprings up and brings forth fruit (b).Accordingly the apoftle faith, as it (c) ihouldfeem in reference to t
. Jewish antiquities: . torn. 5. [a Jercm. v. 24, (b) Hof. ii. 8, 9. 2i6 Feafl of unleavened bread. B. Ill* for his blefiing to render their earthly enjoy-ments and pofTefftons profitable and delight-ful (a). There might alfo be a typical fignincation ofthis rite, as referring to the ofChrifl, whofe facrifice and death had been juftbefore reprefented by that of the pafchal lamb,and which is compared by our Lord himfelfto corn falling into the ground and dying, afterwhich it fprings up and brings forth fruit (b).Accordingly the apoftle faith, as it (c) ihouldfeem in reference to this type, « Now is Chriftrifen from the dead, and is become the firftfruits of them that flept *. (a) i Tim, iv. 4, 5. (b) John xii. 24. {() 1 Cor. xv. 20. * On the Iheaf of the firft fruits, fee alfo Reland. iv. cap. iii. §. viii. p. 464,-466. Hottingeri Godwin, lib. iii. cap. v. §. 3. not. 3. Francof. 1716. On the feaft of unleavened bread, fee the authors be-fore referred to, on the C II A P. ( 2I7 ) * «C wm jtt ^ « ^^ sl ra ^ x& SL .& p*. jo «. .mac * CHAP. V. Of the feaft of Pentecoft. TH E Pentecoft was the fecond of thethree grand feftivals in the ecclefiafticalyear, at which all the males were to appear be-fore the Lord at the national altar. It is called by feveral names in the old tefta-ment; as, the feaft of weeks, the feaft of har-yeft, and the day of the firft fruits. In thenew teftament it is ftiled pentecoft; and therabbies have other names for it, calling it theclay of giving the law, and fiT^y gnatfereth,the word which we render a folemn affcm-bly. ift. It is called the feaft of weeks (a), be-caufe it was celebrated feven weeks, or a weekof weeks, after the pafibver; or rather, afterthe firft day of the feaft of unleavened bread;for the computation of the feven weeks beganwith the fecond day of that feaft, and the nextday after the feven weeks were compleated, wasthe feaft of pentecoft. Thus it is laid in Levi-ticus, Ye fha
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