The Jewish Nation, Containing an Account of Their Manners and Customs

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ...his blood, the blood of the new covenant--the grand plan of agreement or reconciliation God was establishing between Himself and mankind, by the passion, that is, the suffering and death of his Son, through whom alone men can draw nigh to God. Learned men, who nave closely examined the subject, have shown that the observances of the Jewish passover were directly opposed to several ceremonies common among heathen in their idolatrous feasts. And the passover had an especial typical reference to Christ in the circumstances attending it. It was, 1. Descriptive of his person; 2. Of his sufferings and death; 3. Of the fruits of these sufferings--deliverance and freedom; and, 4. Of the manner in which believers are made partakers of the blessed fruits of the sacrifice of Christ; as it is by the precious blood of Christ shed for our sins, and by that alone, that sinful man is delivered from the wrath which his sins justly deserve. This subject is discussed in works which treat upon the types, and in commentaries on the Bible. During the passover, the sheaf of the firstfruits of the barley harvest was offered with a particular sacrifice, this is directed Lev. xxiii. 9--14. On the anniversary of this day our Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead; the apostle Paul may have had this specially in view when speaking of Christ's resurrection, 1 Cor. xv. 20, "He is become the firstfruits of them that slept.' The second great festival was the feast of Pentecost, a Greek word, from the feast being kept on the fiftieth day after the first day of unleavened bread. In the Bible it is spoken of under several names. The feast of weeks, Exod. xxxiv. 22, Deut. xvi. 10--17; the feast of harvest, Exod. xxiii. 16; the day of firstfruits, Numb, xxviii. 26. It was...