{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3895","native_reference":{"book_number":50,"chapter_from":16,"chapter_to":16,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>John Cassian</b>: There was plainly realized the number of this festival, which we read was figuratively foreshadowed in the Old Testament too, when it was ordered that at the end of seven weeks the bread of first fruits was to be offered to the Lord by the priests. This in very truth is recognized as having been offered to the Lord by the preaching of the apostles with which they are said to have exhorted the people on that day. This was the true bread of the first fruits, which was proffered at the beginning of the new teaching, when five thousand men were filled with the gift of its food and which consecrated to the Lord a Christian people newly born from the Jews.<br/><i>— CONFERENCE 21.20.2</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: You have to find out the reason why you have been sent to observe what is said next: You will count seven whole weeks. As you begin to put the sickle into the harvest you will begin to count the seven weeks. And you shall celebrate the feast of the weeks in honor of the Lord your God, according to your hand, according to the things that the Lord has given you, insofar as the Lord your God has blessed you. And you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God. If this feast of Pentecost was to be observed by all the people, is it necessary to think that everyone was ordered to start harvesting on the same day? But if each one observes on his own account this fiftieth, counting from the day he sets out to reap the harvest, it is not the same for all the people. On the other hand, it is one that is counted from the immolation of Easter until the day when the law was given at Sinai.<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 25 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"15b39f259167a6dc6a73f0128929733c51f6ee47c63b26f8b40244c5cf68aff1","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3895,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1e6d74fa158e388c0dbb36beedfa03ca0696302e3325be624db1671bed1310b5","translator":null,"work":null}