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ENTECOST was a feast of the Jews, and called by them the feast of weeks. To them it is said, "Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of in-gathering at the year's end." (Exod. xxxiv. 22.) Pentecost was called the feast of weeks because it was kept seven weeks after the passover; it was called Pentecost from the Greek Pentecoste, signifying the fiftieth. The feast was held on the fiftieth day after the sixteenth of the month Nisan, which was the second day of the feast of the Passover. On the sixteenth of Nisan (which is our March), the wave-offering of the first sheaf was to be made, to implore the divine blessing upon the ensuing harvest. Fifty days were allowed for getting in all their corn, that is, the remaining fifteen in Nisan (or March), twenty-nine in Zif (or April), and the sixth of Sivan (or May), making fifty days in the whole, would be the day of Pentecost. It was kept by the Jews as a day of thanksgiving, together with a grateful commemoration of their being delivered from Egyptian bondage, and enjoying their property by reaping the fruits of their labours, It was also to commemorate the fact of the law being given from Sinai on the fiftieth day after they had left Egypt. Here then, on this memorable day of Pentecost, the apostles were assembled with one accord in one place; there was a heavenly union of soul and