on the eight day] The feast of Tabernacles consisted of seven dayes, vers. 34. yet when those were past, (though the formalitie of the feast were finished) the eighth day was kept with publique solemnitie, and it may be with so much the more, because untill that time twelve-moneth it was not to returne; for that reason, (though in constitution it were but equall with the first day) in observation it might exceed it, and so be called the great day of the feast, John 7:37. In this it is probable they had a gratefull remembrance of their peaceable settlement in the land of Canaan, after their many intricate and troublesome windings, and wandrings in the wildernesse.