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There Is One God, Yahweh (YHWH), And One Mediator Between Yahweh And Men, The Man Yesu The Messiah (Jesus Christ). 1 Timothy 2:5

WHEN DOES THE BIBLICAL YEAR BEGIN?

The True Equinox, New Year's Day, And Timing The Birth Of Yesu The Messiah (Jesus Christ)

The Sabbath Day, Crescent New Moon Day, and Equinox Day begins in Jerusalem at sunset, and the day continues moving westward around the earth beginning at sunset in the various regions, and the day ends on the following sunset. YHWH's Law tells us that YHWH's Eyes are always on Palestine throughout the whole year, and that the Law and the Word of YHWH goes forth from Jerusalem. Therefore, it is established that the Sabbath Day, the Crescent New Moon Day, and the Equinox Day begin from Palestine. Also, the Crescent New Moon Day begins on the evening that it is sighted in Palestine and as the sun sets, moving westward around the earth, each country observes the same Crescent New Moon Day, just like the Sabbaths and the Equinoxes, as it is within the same 24 hour period of sunsets:

Deuteronomy 11:11-12 (11) but the land which you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, (12) a land which YHWH your God cares for; the eyes of YHWH your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

Isaiah 2:3 and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths. "For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of YHWH from Jerusalem."

The days that have precisely 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night in Jerusalem occur on March 16th or March 17th (which is at the beginning of the Spring Season), and on September 26th or September 27th (which is at the beginning of the Autumn Season). These are the True dates of the Equinoxes. Philo Judaeus of Alexandria (20 BCE - 50 CE), a Jewish Philisopher who was living during Yesu's (Jesus') lifetime, verified that the Autumn Equinox occurs on the Twenty-Seventh Day of the Seventh Month (see the Philo quotes below).

The Holy Scriptures that Philo read from shows that Noah and his family entered the ark on the Vernal Equinox, on the 17th day of the month (Septuagint), Genesis 7:11-16, and they came out of the ark one year later on the Vernal Equinox, on the 17th day of the month (Targum), Genesis 8:13-16, see Philo quotes below: PHILO - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON GENESIS II (33). The Septuagint also states that the ark was grounded on the mountains of Ararat on the "27th Day of the Seventh Month," (Genesis 8:3-4) which is the Autumnal Equinox. The Book Of Jubilees also verifies this:

Jubilees 6:25 And on the New Moon of the First Month he was bidden to make for himself an ark, and on that (day) the earth became dry and he opened (the ark) and saw the earth.

Genesis 7:11 shows that the Vernal Equinox was on the 17th Day of the Month. Philo interchanges the First and the Seventh Months, calling them both the Seventh Month, as Philo explains below. This has to do with the Northern and Southern hemispheres and their opposite seasons.

In the Northern Hemisphere, daylight hours decrease from the Summer Solstice (14 Daylight Hours) to the Winter Solstice (10 Daylight Hours) and then the daylight hours begin to increase after the Winter Solstice. It is the opposite effect in the Southern Hemisphere, where daylight hours increase from the Summer Solstice (10 Daylight Hours) to the Winter Solstice (14 Daylight Hours), and then the daylight hours begin to decrease after the Winter Solstice. The True Spring Equinox occurs on March 16th each year and on March 17th every fourth year, (i.e. the 2008, 2009, & 2010 Spring Equinox is on March 16th and the 2011 Spring Equinox is on March 17th). The True Autumn Equinox occurs on September 26th for two years and on September 27th for two years, alternating every two years, (i.e. the 2008 & 2009 Autumn Equinox is on September 26th and the 2010 & 2011 Autumn Equinox is on September 27th). The Vernal Equinox and the Autumnal Equinox will have almost exactly "12 Hours of Daylight and 12 Hours of Night" and are just off by seconds, based on "Jerusalem Time:"

Micah 4:2 and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in his paths. "For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of YHWH from Jerusalem."

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun will always rise furthest to the Northeast and set furthest to the Northwest on the day of the Summer Solstice and it will always rise furthest to the Southeast and set furthest to the Southwest on the day of the Winter Solstice. This would be the opposite for the Southern Hemisphere, where the Winter Solstice will be in June and the Summer Solstice will be in December. On the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox, the Sun will always rise exactly East and it will always set exactly West, and the Equinox Day will show precisely 12 Hours of Daylight on a Sundial:

Northeast/Northwest East/West Southeast/Southwest

(June 20/21) (March 16/17 & September 26/27) (December 21/22)

These Three Pictures Were Taken From The Same Spot At The Different Seasons

Photo by Anthony Ayiomamitis

Noah determined the day of the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes by observing the position of the rising and setting sun. He knew that the Equinoxes occurred when the sun rose exactly East and set exactly West, at which point this day had precisely 12 Hours of Daylight on a Sundial. Noah knew that in a "Twelve Month Year," the First Day of Spring (New Year's Day) was on the Crescent New Moon closest to having 12 Hours of Daylight.

Noah not only observed the sunrise and sunset daily, but he also observed the movement of the constellations that also told him when Spring and Autumn were approaching. Even when Noah was in the ark, he knew when Spring and Autumn had arrived by the position of the constellations. He also knew what month he was in by counting the number of Crescent New Moons, beginning from the New Moon of the New Year (that begins the biblical Spring Season), when he began putting the animals in the ark.

The ancient Priests, Prophets, and Kings understood the signs in the sky and they knew where the North Star was located (at the tip of the Little Dippers handle) and therefore they knew which way was South. When they saw that the day had close to 12 Hours of Daylight on a Sundial, at night they would look at the point directly overhead to see if the Big Dipper was above them. When they saw that the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) was in the center sky, and in between constellation Leo towards the South center sky and the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor) at the North center sky, this was the sign that Spring had arrived. New Year's Day was on the Crescent New Moon closest to the position where the Little Dipper, Big Dipper, and Leo are in a straight line overhead from North to South, which is close to the day of the Vernal Equinox.

Job shows that he observed the constellations in the South skies and that the constellations have their Seasons:

Job 9:8-9 (8) Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground. (9) Who makes Pleiades, and Hesperus (the evening star), and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

Job 38:31-33 (31) And dost thou understand the band of Pleiades, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion? (32) Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth (the constellation) in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them? (33) And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or "the events which take place Together under heaven?"

In the Northern Hemisphere, one would face South at about 11:00 p.m. to observe constellation Leo's first appearance in the East sky in January, with constellation Orion in the South mid-skies, and constellation Taurus, with its brightest star Aldebaran and its Open Star Clusters Hyades and Pleiades sitting slightly Southwest of Orion. These are the stars that Job observed in the south skies which told him that spring was approaching. On March 16/17, constellation Leo is high overhead near the sky's zenith, which signals the beginning of Spring and the lengthening of the Days:

Leo's Sickle Like Curve Marks The Lion's Head And Is Easy To Recognize. Leo's Brightest Star Regulus, Meaning "Prince or Little King," Is Located Due South, Announcing The Birth Of The Messiah.

Photo by Bill & Sally Fletcher

The birth of Yesu (Jesus) was written in the stars of the Spring Constellations. The Holy Scriptures tell us that there were shepherds watching their flocks on the night of Yesu's birth, so his birth would not have ocurred in winter, but rather it would have been near Spring:

Luke 2:8-11 (8) And in that region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. (9) And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. (10) And the angel said to them, "Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people; (11) for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."

The Star Chart below shows the events that took place in Revelation 12:1-5, and this is what the Wise Men observed in the heavens that announced the birth of the Messiah:

Revelation 12:1-5 (1) And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; (2) she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery. (3) And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads. (4) His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth; (5) she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, (6) and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days.

From the Northern Hemisphere, when facing the South skies, Constellation Leo appears as a crouching Lion ready to pounce on the giant Dragon like line of stars of constellation Hydra, in order to protect constellation Virgo, the women travailing in birth, as constellation Bootes' brightest star Arcturus shines in the East above Virgo:

SOUTHEAST SOUTH

The Bright Stars Arcturus (In Bootes), Spica (In Virgo), And Regulus (In Leo) Form The "Spring Triangle." Spica Is Virgo's Brightest Star And The Name Means "An Ear Of Grain."

Diagram By Kathy Miles & Chuck Peters

Standing directly above Virgo's womb is the star Arcturus, which is the Brightest Star in Spring that is north of the equator, and it is the Star that the Wise Men saw in the East:

Matthew 2:1-9 (1) Now when Yesu (Jesus) was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, (2) "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his Star in the east, and have come to worship him." (3) When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; (4) and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. (5) They told him, "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet: (6) And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will govern my people Israel." (7) Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the Star appeared; (8) and he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him bring me word, that I too may come and worship him." (9) When they had heard the king they went their way; and lo, the Star which they had seen in the east went before them, till it came to rest over the place where the child was.

On March 16th/17th, when facing South from the Northern Hemisphere, at about 11:00 p.m., constellation Leo is high in the center sky, near the sky's zenith, and is below the Big Dipper. Leo's brightest star Regulus is located due South, sitting on the ecliptic, and this is the sign of the beginning of Spring. At the same time, you will see the brightest star Arcturus, in constellation Bootes, rising in the East skies as constellations Orion and Taurus are setting in the West skies, signaling the end of Winter.

Also, when you look to the point directly overhead, above constellation Leo (near the sky's zenith), you will see the Big Dipper of Ursa Major, which was known as "The Great Bear" in ancient times. Further above "The Great Bear," to the North, you will see the Little Dipper of Ursa Minor, which was known as "The Little Bear" in ancient times. Trailing to the right, at the end of the Little Dipper's handle, is the North Star called Polaris, which sits on the earth's axis at the North Pole and is always at the same position. Once you locate the Big Dipper, it is easy to locate Polaris by just following the line of the two stars that mark the outer edge of the Big Dipper's bowl, and extend the line straight above (these two stars always point to Polaris):

Photo by Bill & Sally Fletcher

In the Northern Hemisphere, the appearance of constellation Pegasus in the furthest Southeast sky signals the approach of Autumn and the shortening of the days. Constellation Pegasus first appears in the Southeast sky in July, and moves towards the Center of the South sky by September. On September 26th/27th (the Equinox), constellation Pegasus is in the mid-skies near the meridian and this is the sign of the beginning of Autumn:

The Famous Square of Pegasus Is The Dominant Feature In The Sky

Photo by David Malin

Observers from the Southern Hemisphere would look to the furthest Northeast sky to observe these constellations approaching the Center of the North sky. When constellation Pegasus is in the mid-skies near the meridian on September 26/27, this is the sign of the beginning of Spring and the "Lengthening of the Days." When constellation Leo is in the mid-skies near the meridian on March 16/17, this is the sign of the beginning of Autumn and the "Shortening of the Days," and these dates will have "12 Hours of Light" that can be verified on a sundial.

The Holy Scriptures tell us that God is the "Father of Lights" and that He made Lights in the Sky to be "Signs for the Seasons, Days, and Years," and that these "Lights are Witnesses." The Holy Scriptures also tell us that "HEAVEN and EARTH" will be the witnesses against the people and that these witnesses will Prove when YHWH's True New Moons and High Sabbaths begin. The prophet Isaiah then tells us that the day is coming when YHWH will take away these Lights, and make the earth desolate and destroy the sinners:

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights, with whom can be No Variation, neither Shadow that is Cast by Turning.

Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be Lights in the expanse of the Sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as Signs to Mark Seasons and Days and Years,

Deuteronomy 31:28 Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and Call Heaven and Earth to Witness Against Them.

Psalm 50:4 He shall Summon the Heaven above, and the Earth, that He May Judge His People.

Psalm 89:37 And as the Moon forever fixed, and the Witness in Heaven is Faithful.

Psalm 104:19 He Appointed the Moon for Seasons: The Sun knows his time for Going Down.

Isaiah 13:9-10 (9) See, the day of YHWH is coming, a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it. (10) The Stars of heaven and their Constellations will not show their Light. The Rising Sun will be darkened and the Moon will not give its Light.

Just before Yesu was crucified, he gave us an indication as to when the Month of Abib begins when he said that the day has "12 Hours." The Month of Abib was known as the Month of "Newly Ripened Grain" in ancient times, and always fell near the Spring Equinox (the day that has "12 Hours") in a regular twelve month year:

John 11:9 Yesu answered, "Are there not Twelve Hours in the Day?" If any one walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

Exodus 9: 31-32 (31) The flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. (32) But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they are late in coming up.

Exodus 12:2 This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the First Month of the Year for you.

Exodus 13:4 This day you are to go forth, in the month of Abib.

Exodus 23:15 You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed.

Exodus 34:18 The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to YHWH your God; for in the month of Abib YHWH your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

The True Equinox dates are March 16th/17th and September 26th/27th, as these dates coincide with the equinox dates in the Holy Scriptures, with Philo's equinox dates, and with the U.S. Naval Observatory dates for the days that have precisely 12 hours of daylight in Jerusalem. These dates can be verified by Four VISIBLE Signs from "HEAVEN AND EARTH" that show when the New Year begins and when the count to the Spring and Autumn Holy Days begin:

1. By the STARS - When the constellations Leo and Pegasus are in the mid-skies near the meridian.

2. By the SUN - When the sun rises exactly East and sets exactly West, as this is the day that has exactly 12 Hours of Daylight and can be verified on a sundial. This day is the True Equinox and occurs on March 16th every year and on March 17th every fourth year, and it occurs on September 26th for two years and altenates to September 27th for the next two years. The new day begins when the sun has gone down (sunset) and there is no shadow on a sundial.

3. By the EARTH - When the First Ripened Barley appears in Palestine near the beginning of Spring. Yahweh's Laws tell us that Yahweh's Eyes are always on Palestine throughout the whole year, and that the Law and the Word of Yahweh goes forth from Jerusalem. Therefore, the observation location for sighting the First Ripened Barley and also the Crescent New Moon is established in Palestine:

Leviticus 23:10-11 (10) Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land which I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest; (11) and he shall wave the sheaf before YHWH, that you may find acceptance; on the morrow after the First Day the priest shall wave it.

Deuteronomy 11:11-12 (11) but the land which you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, (12) a land which YHWH your God cares for; the eyes of YHWH your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

Isaiah 2:3 and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths. "For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of YHWH from Jerusalem."

Micah 4:2 and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in his paths. "For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of YHWH from Jerusalem."

4. By the MOON - When the Crescent New Moon Day has close to 12 daylight hours. In a Regular Twelve Month Year, this Crescent New Moon Day will be the one closest to March 16th/17th (The True Equinox Date). This Crescent New Moon Day is the First Day of the First Month (New Year's Day) and it is the First Day of the Month of Abib, Genesis 8:13 & Exodus 12:2, and this day also begins the count to the Passover Holy Days. The First Day of Unleavened Bread will normally fall After March 15th, (also see the link: The Crescent New Moon Is A Holy Day).

As mentioned above, Philo refers to both the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes as the Vernal Equinox and the Twenty-Seventh Day of Seventh Month. Philo says that the Vernal Equinox is called both the Seventh Month and the First Month, and this is because of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and their opposite Spring and Autumn seasons, (see the following quotes from "The Works Of Philo" translated by C.D. Yonge):

PHILO - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON GENESIS, II

(17) Why did the deluge take place in the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, and in the seventh month, and on the twenty-seventh day of the month? (Genesis 7:11). Perhaps it happened that the just man was born at the beginning of the month, at the First beginning of the commencement of that very year which they are accustomed to call the sacred year, out of honour, otherwise the sacred historian would not have been so "Carefully Accurate in Fixing the Day and Month" when the deluge began To the Seventh Month and the Twenty-Seventh Day of the Month. But, perhaps, by this minuteness he intended manifestly to indicate "the Precise Time of the Vernal Equinox, for that Always Occurs on the Twenty-Seventh Day of the Seventh Month." But why was it that the deluge "Fell on the Day of the Vernal Equinox?" Because about that time the birth and increase of everything take place, whether living creatures or plants; therefore the vengeance and punishment inflicted brings with it the more terrible and dreadful threats, as happening at the period of plenty and fertility of the shaves of corn, and indeed, in the very midst of that productiveness, and bringing the evil of utter destruction as a reproof of the impiety of those who are exposed to the punishment. For behold, says he, all nature contains its own productions within itself in the greatest abundance, namely, wheat and barley, and everything else which is produced from seed, brought on to complete generation, as, also, it begins to generate the fruits of trees; but you, like mortals, corrupt its mercies, perverting the divine gifts, and purposes, and mysteries. But if the deluge had taken place at the autumnal equinox, when there was nothing growing on the earth, but when all the crops were collected into their proper storehouses, it would not have, in any degree, been looked upon as a punishment, but rather as a benefit, as the water would have cleansed the plains and the mountains. But as the first man who was produced out of the earth was also created at the same season of the year, he whom the divine writer calls Adam, because in fact it was on every account proper that the grandfather, or original parent, or father of the human race, or by whatever name we may choose to designate that original founder of our kind, should be created at the season of the vernal equinox, when all earthly productions were full of their fruit; but the vernal equinox takes place in the Seventh month, which is also called the "First" in other passages, with reference to a different idea. Since, therefore, the First beginning of the generation of our race, after the destruction caused by the deluge, commenced with Noah, men being again sown and procreated, therefore he also is recognised as resembling the first man born of the earth, as far as such resemblance or recognition is possible. And the six hundredth year has for its origin the number six; and the world was created under the number six, therefore, by this same number does he reprove the wicked, putting them to shame because he would, unquestionably, never, after he had created the universe by means of the number six, have destroyed all the men who lived on the earth under the form of six, if it had not been for the preposterous excess of their iniquities. For the third power of six and the minor power is the number six hundred, and the mean between both is sixty, since the number ten more evidently represents the likeness of unity, and the number a hundred represents the minor power.

(31) Why does he say, "The ark settled in the Seventh Month on the Seven and Twentieth Day of the Month?" (Genesis 8:4). It is reasonable here to consider how the beginning of the deluge commences in the seventh month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, and how the diminution, when the ark rested on the top of the mountains, again took place in the seventh month and on the twenty-seventh day of the month; therefore we must say, that there is here an homonymy of months and days, for the beginning of the flood took place in the seventh month, beginning at the birthday of the just man, near the time of the vernal equinox, and its diminution took place in the seventh month, beginning from the highest point of the flood at the autumnal equinox, since the two equinoxes are separated from one another by seven months, having an interval of five months between them. For the Seventh Month of the Equinox is also by its virtue the First Month, because the creation of the world took place in it, on account of the abundance of all things at that season. And, in like manner, the seventh month of the autumnal equinox, which, according to time, is the First in dignity, having its principle of that number seven derived from the air; therefore, the deluge took place in the seventh month, NOT according to time but "According to Nature, having for its Principle and Commencement the Spring Season."

(33) Why was it after forty days that the just man opened the window of the ark? (Genesis 8:5). We must observe carefully that the divine historian uses the same number in speaking of the influx of the deluge and in mentioning the cessation and complete removal of the evil; forsooth on the twenty-seventh day of the Seventh Month in the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, that is to say in the six hundredth year after his nativity, the deluge began at the Spring Season; but on the twenty-seventh day of the Seventh Month, the ark rested on the top of the mountains at the Vernal Equinox. But it is plain from these circumstances that the deluge became invisible in the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, again on the Seventh Month and the twenty-seventh day of it, so that after the "lapse of an entire year," it again settled and established the earth as it was at the moment of its destruction, in the spring season, budding forth and covered with verdure and full of all kinds of fruits. But again in a similar manner the overflow of the deluge took place for forty days, the cataracts of heaven being opened and fountains bursting upwards from the lowest depths of the earth; and again a hope of renewal took place at intervals of forty days after a sufficient cessation of the rains, when he opened the window; and again "the duration of the permanent deluge lasted for a period of a hundred and fifty days," as also "its gradual diminution occupied a period of a hundred and fifty days;" so that we may well admire the equality of the arrangement, for the evil increased and ceased according to the same number, like the moon, which from its first rise proceeds in its increase according to an equal number, going onward to its perfect fulness of light, and then again with an equal number in its decrease, returning back to its original state, after having been previously full; and in like manner in the case of divine chastisements, the Creator preserves a regular order, banishing all irregularity from the divine borders.

(45) Why in the six hundred and first year of the life of Noah, and on the First Day of the First Month, did the waters of the deluge cease from off the earth? (Genesis 8:13). The word first, according to the defect of time, is spoken of with reference either to the month or the man, and each interpretation has reason to support it; for if we are bound to maintain that the water began to abate in the First Month, we are equally obliged to consider that the sacred historian intended also to speak of the seventh month, that is, of that month which is the second equinox, since the same month is both the First and the Seventh; that is to say, the First as respects nature and virtue, and the seventh in point of time. Therefore in another place he says, Exodus 12:2, "This month is unto you the beginning of months, the First among the months of the year;" calling that the First which is so in respect of nature and virtue, and which as to number is in time the seventh month, since the equinox has its appointed order in regular series, and in point of time is assigned the better season of the year. But if you take that word first to have reference to the man, then it will be used with more truth, and with strict propriety, for the just man was truly and properly the first, as in a vessel the captain is the first man, and in a state the prince. But he is first not only in virtue, but also in order, inasmuch as in the very circumstances of the regeneration of the second sowing of the human race he was the beginning and the first.

(47) Why is it that the earth was dried up in the Seventh Month, and on the Twenty-Seventh Day? (Genesis 8:14). Do you not see that he here calls that month the Seventh, which a little while before he styles the First? for the seventh, as far as related to time, is the same, as I have said before, as that which is the First in nature, being the beginning of the equinox. But it is with great propriety that the beginning of the deluge is fixed to the seventh month, and the twenty-seventh day of the month; and again, the end and cessation of the deluge is fixed to the same seventh month and the same day; for, both the deluge and the removal of life took place at the equinox; the principle of which we have indicated a little time ago; for the seventh month is found to be synonymous with months and days of this time, and then again, the twenty-seventh day occurs with the same meaning, when the ark rested on the mountains. This is the month which by nature is the Seventh, but in point of time the First, which in fact is the month of the equinox. Therefore, at the equinoxes a power of selection is given for seven months the fruits were also destroyed, the earth being wholly relieved of all evil was again found full of seeds and fruit-bearing trees, according to the production of spring; for he thought it reasonable that, as the earth after it had suffered the deluge was in a similar condition when dried again to that in which it was before, so it should now show itself, and pay the debt which it owed to nature. Nor ought any one to wonder that in one day the earth when left to itself produced every thing by divine virtue, both seeds and trees, all complete, entirely and suddenly, with perfect and excellent herbs, and grain, and plants, and fruits; since in the creation of the world on one day of the six he finished and brought to perfection the whole generation of plants. But the present fruits were already perfect in themselves, and produced all kinds of frui and twenty-seven days; for the deluge took place in the seventh month, on which the vernal equinox takes place; so that it is in time the Seventh, but in nature the First. And the cessation of the deluge and the display of mercy belong to the same measure, when the ark rested on the tops of the mountains; again in truth in the seventh month, but not the same month, but in that in which the autumnal equinox occurs; that is to say, the Seventh by nature, but the First in point of time. But the most perfect cure, the fact of the evil being wholly dried up, is again fixed to the seventh month and the twenty-seventh day of the vernal season; in order that both the beginning and the end of the deluge might find its boundary at the same season; and that the middle season when human life is repaired, is fixed to the intermediate season. In the meantime that expression is more certainly to be observed, namely, that the whole year, by a strict computation of days, made the deluge equal to the exact time of the remedy; for it began in the six hundredth year of Noah's age, in the seventh month, and on the twenty-seventh day; so that the whole space of the intermediate time completed a perfect year, the beginning being placed at the vernal equinox, and the flood also ending equally at the same epoch of the vernal equinox. And in this manner, after all things on earth, things full of fruit, had undergone destruction, as I have said before, now that the persons who usedts in a manner suitable and corresponding to the season of spring; for all things are possible to God, who scarcely requires time to effect any thing.

PHILO - THE SPECIAL LAWS, II - THE FIFTH FESTIVAL

XXVIII. (150) And there is another festival combined with the feast of the passover, having a use of food different from the usual one, and not customary; the use, namely, of unleavened bread, from which it derives its name. And there are two accounts given of this festival, the one peculiar to the nation, on account of the migration already described; the other a common one, in accordance with conformity to nature and with the harmony of the whole world. And we must consider how accurate the hypothesis is. This month, being the seventh both in number and order, according to the revolutions of the sun, is the first in power; (151) on which account it is also called the First in the Sacred Scriptures. And the reason, as I imagine, is as follows. The vernal equinox is an imitation and representation of that beginning in accordance with which this world was created. Accordingly, every year, God reminds men of the creation of the world, and with this view puts forward the spring, in which season all plants flourish and bloom; (152) for which reason this is very correctly set down in the law as the First Month, since, in a manner, it may be said to be an impression of the first beginning of all, being stamped by it as by an archetypal Seal. (153) Although the month in which the autumnal equinox occurs is first in sequence according to solar orbits, it is not considered first in the law. The reason is that at that time, after all the crops have been harvested, the trees lose their leaves and everything that springtime produced in the height of its glory is withering under dry winds after it has been made dry by the flaming heat of the sun. (154) Therefore he thought that to apply the name "first" to the month in which the hill country and the plain become barren and infertile, was incongruous and unfitting. For it is necessary that the most beautiful and desirable phenomena belong to those things which are first and have received the position of leadership, those phenomena through which the reproduction and growth of animals and fruit and crops take place, but not the ominous destructive forces. (155) And this feast is begun on the fifteenth day of the month, in the middle of the month, on the day on which the moon is full of light, in consequence of the providence of God taking care that there shall be no darkness on that day.

PHILO - ON THE LIFE OF MOSES, II

XLI (222) Moses puts down the beginning of the Vernal Equinox as the First Month of the Year, attributing the chief honour, not as some persons do to the periodical revolutions of the year in regard of time, but rather to the graces and beauties of nature which it has caused to shine upon men; for it is through the bounty of nature that the seeds which are sown to produce the necessary food of mankind are brought to perfection. And the fruit of trees in their prime, which is second in importance only to the necessary crops, is engendered by the same power, and as being second in importance it also ripens late; for we always find in nature that those things which are not very necessary are second to those which are indispensable.

PHILO - THE DECALOGUE

XXX. (161) But to the seventh day of the week he has assigned the greatest festivals, those of the longest duration, at the periods of the equinox both vernal and autumnal in each year; appointing two festivals for these two epochs, each lasting seven days; the one which takes place in the spring being for the perfection of what is being sown, and the one which falls in autumn being a feast of thanksgiving for the bringing home of all the fruits which the trees have produced. And seven days have very appropriately been appointed to the seventh month of each equinox, so that each month might receive an especial honour of one sacred day of festival, for the purpose of refreshing and cheering the mind with its holiday.

THE SPECIAL LAWS, I

(182) For he thought that the same reason governed the relation of the new moon to the month which governed the relation of the seven days of the feast to the equinox that took place in the seventh month. As a result he declared sacred both the beginning of each month and the beginning, consisting of the same number of days as the new moons, of the aggregate seven months. (183) In the middle of spring the harvest takes place during which season thank offerings are offered to God from the field because it has produced fruit in abundance and the crops are being harvested. This feast is the most publicly celebrated feast and is called "the feast of the first produce," named etymologically from the circumstance that the first of the produce, the first fruits, are dedicated at that time.

THE SPECIAL LAWS, IV

XLII (233) Nature, therefore, has marked out those periods in every year, which are called the equinoxes, from the state of things which exists at that time, namely, the spring and the autumnal equinox, with such distinctness, that even the most illiterate persons are aware of the equality which then exists between the extent of the days and of the nights.

WHO IS THE HEIR OF DIVINE THINGS

XXIX. (146) These things being thus previously sketched out, see now how God, dividing things in the middle, has divided them into equal portions according to all the ideas of equality which occur in the creation of the universe. He has divided the heavy things so as to make them equal in number to the light ones, two to two; that is to say, so that the earth and the water, being things of weight, are equal in number to those which are by nature light, air, and fire. Again, he has made one equal to one, the driest thing to the wettest thing, the earth to the water; and the coldest thing to the hottest thing, the air to the fire. So, in the same manner, he had divided light from darkness, and day from night, and summer from winter, and autumn from spring; and so on. (147) Again, he has divided things so as to make his divisions equal in point of magnitude; such as the parallel cycles in heaven, and those which belong to the equinoxes both of spring and autumn, and those which belong to the winter and summer solstice. And on the earth he has divided the zones, two being equal to one another, which being placed close to the poles are frozen with cold, and on this account are uninhabitable. And two he has placed on the borders between these two and the torrid zone, and these two they say are the abode of a happy temperature of the air, one of them lying towards the south and the other towards the north. (148) Now the divisions of time are equal in point of length, the longest day being equal to the longest night, and the shortest day being equal to the shortest night, and the mean length of day to the mean length of night. And the equal magnitude of other days and nights appears to be indicated chiefly by the equinoxes. (149) From the spring equinox to the summer solstice, day receives an addition to its length, and night, on the other hand, submits to a diminution; until the longest day and the shortest night are both completed. And then after the summer solstice the sun, turning back again the same road, neither more quickly nor more slowly than he advanced, but always preserving the same difference in the same manner, having a constantly equal arrangement, proceeds on till the autumnal equinox; and then, having made day and night both equal, begins to increase the length of the night, diminishing the day until the time of the winter solstice. (150) And when it has made the night the longest night, and the day the shortest day, then returning back again and adopting the same distances as before, he again comes to the spring equinox. Thus the differences of time which appear to be unequal, do in reality possess a perfect equality in respect of magnitude, not indeed at the same seasons, but at different seasons of the year.

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