The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-30

together also ..i in .-. the line of the
julian period; from its year 953,
October 7th, Monday, to the Mon
day l write this, A. j. p. $3.50,
November Sd, i. e., Rab. A. NJ. s, 1894,
.Marchesvan 18th, and my Bible year
Of the world 7,4l9, Marchesvan 23d,
each last day being Monday, Nov. Sd,
A. D. 1873. Let the Elder learn to
count the days and not ignorantly argue
that may have erred one day.
On page 81 the Elder admits "that
the first fruits were to be offered on the
morrow after weekly Sabbath" Lev.
23d 1916. 1t truly follows, there
fore, that the count Of so days, "begin-
ming with that morrow after the Sab
bath,' made the giving of the Law at
Sinai, and every Penticost thereafter,
come on Sunday.
It is an admitted fact, then, that the
first and last days, in the count of
1'6fty' were always Sunday. Lev. 23d,
So, positively require the "l5th Of
the first month" to be the feast of I'm.
leaven bread unto the Lord "for seven
days." This being a fixed fact for
every year, the next question is, what
day of the week had that fifteenth
day Of the first month" to be annually?
the modern Rabbins, having adjusted
their lamar calender accordingly, say
that that fifteenth day" must come
some years on Thursday some years
on Tuesday, some years on Sunday and
some years on Saturday; but never on
either Friday, Wednesday or Monday.
Every Gentle Of common sense ought
to know that such a calendar has no
foundation either in the Bible or 10 ac-
tual occurrences; for new moons even
yet give the lie to such Rabbinic de-
ceptions-occurring without any excep-
tons, on the different days of the
whole week. Yet millions of Gentiles
gulp down this absurd calendar as
though it had Bible authority. But
Josephus expounding the Hebrew scrip
ture, for the edi6cation Of "the Creeks"
i. e., Gentiles, says, b. 2, CHI. 10, sec.
5, The feast Of the upleaven bread
falls on the fifteenth day of the month,
and continues seven days. This har-
monises with Lev. %, $50, and both
authorities demonstrate the first day
OF that feast to be the 18th of Nissan or
Abb. Josephus then adds: "On the
second day Of unleaven bread, which is
the 10th day of the month, they first
partake of the fruits Of the Earth, &C.,
showing next that they first "oaered
to Cod and then partook themselves.
This day Of Offering or waving" the
first fruits before the Lord "the second
day of the feast-the 10th of the
month is expressly called "the NOR
row after the Sabbath" Lev. %, l1:l5.
This proves the 18th day of the first
month to have been Saturday annually.
The last section, contrary to the Elder
denial p: 81, proves that the Bible as
explained by Josephus himself, "fixed
the Sabbath to the fifteenth of the first
month";, annually; the morrow after
which the first fruits had to be offered.
Nor is it any objection to this explana-
ton OF Josephus, that in the same par
agraph, he, speaking to the "Greeks,"
calls Nissan lunar month, for no one
can show, in the Bible or in the works
OF Josephus, a single month of less
than ~ days nor any year of more than
IL months. Nor did ever one moon
measure 30 days, or twelve moons ever
make II solar year.
Continued meet eceek.