Afflict Assembly Convocation Deny Hold Holy Humble Humbled Manner Meeting Month Pleasure Sacred Seventh Sort Souls Tenth Therein Yourselves
29:7 And ye shall have on the tenth [day] of this seventh month an holy {d} convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work [therein]:
(d) Which is the feast of reconciliation.
29:7 Afflict your souls - Yourselves, by fasting and abstinence from all delightful things, and by compunction for your sins, and the judgments of God, either deserved by you or inflicted upon you.
29:1-11 There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any other. It was the space between harvest and seed-time. The more leisure we have from the pressing occupations of this life, the more time we should spend in the immediate service of God. The blowing of the trumpets was appointed, Le 22:24. Here they are directed what sacrifices to offer on that day. Those who would know the mind of God in the Scriptures, must compare one part with another. The latter discoveries of Divine light explain what was dark, and supply what was wanting, in the former, that the man of God may be perfect.
Afflict Assembly Convocation Deny Hold Holy Humble Humbled Manner Meeting Month Pleasure Sacred Seventh Souls Therein Work Yourselves
Afflict Assembly Convocation Deny Hold Holy Humble Humbled Manner Meeting Month Pleasure Sacred Seventh Souls Therein Work Yourselves
