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M. M. NINAN<br />
The next important symbolism of bread comes on the day of<br />
Pentecost. The details of the Pentecost is given in Ex. 34:21-22<br />
;Lev. 23.16-17. Pentecost took place on the 50th day after the<br />
waving of the first sheave of harvest (which represents the<br />
resurrection of Jesus). On that day two bread were placed on the<br />
table, one representing the Jews and the other representing the<br />
gentiles both to be made with leaven (representing the sinful<br />
man)<br />
* Pentecost - That day leavened bread is placed on the shew<br />
bread tableinstead of the usual unleavened bread, and that only<br />
two of them. It symbolises mankind as a whole - both the Jews<br />
and the gentiles who are sinful - the leaven symbolizing sin.<br />
Thus bread in general symbolises life. Pentecost is the<br />
celebration of the law giving at mount Sinai. Moses brought<br />
down the tablets of law on that day. On that day 300 apostate<br />
Israelites who worshipped the golden calf died. The Sinaitic<br />
covenant was the new beginning for the world, when people all<br />
over the world were to live by the law and take the consequence<br />
of the sin that was committed. However it was a law based on<br />
mercy. In the presence of the holiness of God all sin brings<br />
death. But in the Sinaitic covenant, not all law breaking is<br />
punishable by death, because of the presence of the Priestly<br />
intercession and the sacrificial atonement built in the law. In this<br />
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