Philo: On the Festival of the Basket of First-Fruits from the Ancient Writings of The Set-Apart Bible. Read free with the Sacred Names (Yahuah, Yahshua, Elohim) and audio narration.
1 There is, besides all these, another festival J sacred to od, and a solemn assembly on the day of the festival which * I have translated this as it is printed in Schwicbest's edition, langey makes the treatise end at " mother." t This treatise is not given in Mangey's edition. J Deuteronomy xxvi. 1. U 2 292 PHILO JUD^US. they call castallus,* from the event that takes place in it, as we shall 6ho\v presently. Now that this festival is not in tho same rank, nor of the same importance with the other festivals, is plain from many considerations. For, first of all, it is not one to be observed by the whole population of the nation as each of the others is. Secondly, none of the things that arc brought or offered are laid upon the altar as holy, or committed to the unextinguishable and holy fire. Thirdly, the very number of days which are to be observed in the festival are not expressly stated.