The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . s are often fixed by a reference to the sea-sons or productions, 2 Sam. xxi. 9: Numb. xiii. 20; or by areference to the feasts, John x. 22. The fact recorded in Luke iv. 17, has been thought to fix [the time of our Lords visit to the synagogue at reading of the Law was completed in the fifty-two Sab-baths of each year, and was begun in Tisri (or Sept.), a cus-torn founded on Neh. viii. 2; and Deut. xxxi. 10, 11. Gen. was read at the feast of tabernacles; and on the Sab-bath before. Deut. xxix. 10, with
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . s are often fixed by a reference to the sea-sons or productions, 2 Sam. xxi. 9: Numb. xiii. 20; or by areference to the feasts, John x. 22. The fact recorded in Luke iv. 17, has been thought to fix [the time of our Lords visit to the synagogue at reading of the Law was completed in the fifty-two Sab-baths of each year, and was begun in Tisri (or Sept.), a cus-torn founded on Neh. viii. 2; and Deut. xxxi. 10, 11. Gen. was read at the feast of tabernacles; and on the Sab-bath before. Deut. xxix. 10, with Isa. lxi. 1-lxiii. 10. Thisreckoning, which is Lamys, fixes the visit on the 14th time seems fixed by the context, however, nearer to Pen-tecost, and the phraseology of Luke rather intimates that;.Christ had chosen the passage, than that he found it in the jgeneral order of reading. Lamy has given all the lessons;(App. Bibl. Bk. L, chap. v). The preceding Table gives thecommencement of a few onlv. The zeal of the people mentioned in 2 Chron. xxx. 23, be- I. 37 2C INTERPRETATION OF ALLEGORIES. 313 comes more obvious, when it it remembered that they keptthe feast other seven days, in the midst of the harvest. Important lessons are often suggested by an accurate know-ledge of such facts as this table contains. Our Lord, forexample, was crucified on the day when the paschal lamb wasoffered, and rose on the day when the first fruits of the earlyharvest were presented, the first fruits of them that Spirit was poured out at Pentecost, when the first fruitsof the ground were presented at the temple: and on thatday 3,000 persons, out of every nation under heaven, wereadded to the church, Acts ii. 5, 41. The feast of tabernacles(when thanks were offered for the ingathering of all the fruitsof the land), is yet to come. The language of our Lord (Matt, xxiii. 27, 29), comparingthe Pharisees to whited sepulchres, becomes clearer from thefact, that it was spoken just bef
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