[323] Seniores appellabant hunc diem, πρώτην τῶν σαββάτων. Lev. 23. 11.
[324] Scalig. de emend. temp. l. 6.
[325] Καὶ τότε λοιπὸν δημοσίᾳ ἔξεστι πᾶσι καὶ ἰδίᾳ θερίζειν, Joseph. Antiq. l. 3. c. 10.
[326] Scalig. lib. 6. de emend. temp. p. 260.
[327] Plin. l. 18. cap. 18. Illud ipsum confirmat Leo Afr. testis αὐτόπτης Descript. Afr. lib. 8. c. 4.
CHAP. VI.
The Feast of Tabernacles
The Greek word used to express this Festivity, properly signifieth the making of Tabernacles:[328] the Hebrew word, a Feast of Tabernacles.[329] The reason of both is, because all the time of this Feast, which was full seven daies, (from the fifteenth of Tisri, untill the one and twentieth thereof) the people remained in Tabernacles and Booths made of Boughs, in manner of Arbors and Bowers; yet so, that the first day of those seven, and the last, were after a more special manner to be observed as holy Convocations.
[328] Jansen. Concord. cap. 73. Item Tollet. in Joan. 7. σκηνοπαγία, non σκηνοφαγία.