Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

500 .. THE GA)fRLE DISCOVERY." (May
Every New Moon was observed by the bnelitee u ·a speeial
feast day. and with special aaorifioes. ·Becauee of :the IICl'Upulosity
of the celebration of Feaat-days, in ibe more distant .plMas
from Jerusalem the Jews observed two days fol' one, in Ol'der
to be aure to oal'ry ont the command, even as ~ time; bnt in .
Ng&M to the Sabbath day they had no doubt, u evel'Y Sevea•­
day was known by every man, woman, or child, on.aoeo1Rlt·of its
strict ob.ervance among them.
When MG888 repeated the "~n wol'ds " from Mount Sinai
to his people (Deut. ~. 12), in regal'd to the f~urth oomnuwadment
he adds tba wol'da: .. As the Eternal thy God ilu commanded
thee." Rashi, the great comme~tator of the eleventh
century, maintains that at Marab, previou11 to the Revelation
on Mount Sinai, this special Law WR" already in foroe, as it is
Wl'itteo (Ex. xv. 25): •• There God made for them a statute
and an ordinant-oe, and there he proved them."
In reg&!'C.l to the .Kev. Mr Gamble's statement that the Sabbath
ob.erved by Israel dated on every reoorring Paesover. on
the 15th day of Abib, it is ctn-tainJy surprising if such a learn·
ed clergyman doeR not know that on the numet·ous days oF re.
joioing of the Jewish Festivals, the Israelite was always exhorted
to be mindful of the great deliverance From the J