. Jewish antiquities: . 1. xl. I. * The Jews reckon only 3760 years from the creation tothe birth of Chrift. See Scalig. de emendat. tempor. p. 628. and Strauchiuss Chronol. by Sault, book ii. p. 168,—171. ?f This is called the computus minor; when the thou-fands are expreffed at length, it is called computus ma-jor. % Reland. Antiq. Heb, part iv. cap. 1. $.. vib, p. 428;429. edit. 3. C. I. Years. 123 from thofe of the idolaters, was undoubtedlyfubfervient. 2dly, Becaufe the month, in which they weredelivered out of Egypt, and in which fuch afurprizing feries of miracles was
. Jewish antiquities: . 1. xl. I. * The Jews reckon only 3760 years from the creation tothe birth of Chrift. See Scalig. de emendat. tempor. p. 628. and Strauchiuss Chronol. by Sault, book ii. p. 168,—171. ?f This is called the computus minor; when the thou-fands are expreffed at length, it is called computus ma-jor. % Reland. Antiq. Heb, part iv. cap. 1. $.. vib, p. 428;429. edit. 3. C. I. Years. 123 from thofe of the idolaters, was undoubtedlyfubfervient. 2dly, Becaufe the month, in which they weredelivered out of Egypt, and in which fuch afurprizing feries of miracles was wrought intheir favour, might be well accounted a fort ofmenfis nataiis of that nation, in which God asit were revived them from a ftate of death, andtook then, under his future fpecial protectionand pfbvidence ; on which account, to fet aparticular mark upon that month, and to per-petuate the memory of lb great a mercy, heordered, that it fhould fland at the head of themonths, and be reckoned the firft of the CHAP. ( 124 ) CHAP. II. Of their feafts. Jjc A S, among the Jews, their ordinary meals,J^\. fefch Godwin, were not many in a day,fo neither were they coftly ; and therefore theywere called firntt aruchoth, which properlyfignifieth fuch fare as travellers ufe on their jour-nies •, whereas the extraordinary and more libe-ral kind of entertainment was commonly cal-led nnttfD miftiteh. There is no doubt, butthe word nrHtt aruchah, as it comes from theroot mtf arach, iter fecit, properly and pri-marility fignifies provifions on a journey, orfuch a meal as was common with travellers,which can hardly be fuppofed to have beeneither elegant or plentiful in thofe countries•where there were no inns or houfes of enter-tainment on the road, and where travellers ufedto carry their provifions with them; and though,as Godwin obferves, the word is ufed for a meanand fcanty meal in the book of Proverbs (0),where p^ nmtt aruchath jarak, a dinner ofherbs, ftands in oppofition to
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