Bible Dictionary: The Feast of Pentecost: A Time of Holy Rejoicing

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Deuteronomy 16:11,12
And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.
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On Pentecost.
... V. We are keeping the feast of Pentecost and of the ... To-day let us keep the feast;
to-morrow will ... Antiochus, which happened not so very long before this time. ...
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Letter xiv. --(For 342. ) Coss. Augustus Constantius iii, Constans ...
... For when of old time prophets and scribes studied the ... And let us keep the holy feast
on the sixteenth of ... by one [the days] till the holy Pentecost, passing on ...
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Jesus the Christ.
... could send the Holy Spirit, and on Pentecost it was ... and when he appeared at this
feast they sought ... senator," Joseph, would reveal himself at the proper time. ...
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The Miracle of Pentecost and the Birthday of the Christian
... 24:53; Acts 2:46; 5:12, 42), with the time of the ... Ch., p. 192, note 5). The legislation
on Pentecost, Deut. 16:9-12, represents it as a feast of rejoicing, and ...
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The Abiding Gift and Its Transitory Accompaniments
... of the Father.' Probably, too, the great Feast, so near at ... So, very early on that
day of Pentecost, they betook ... occupation may be more loss of time than devout ...
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Letter xix. --(For 347. ) Coss. Rufinus, Eusebius; Præf. The Same ...
... trials; but although, from time to time, circumstances of ... Let us keep the feast when
the first of the ... the seven holy weeks of Pentecost, rejoicing and praising ...
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Letter iii. --For 331. Easter-Day xvi Pharmuthi; iii Id. April ...
... 4010] .' For as the Jews at that time, although suffering ... When then we have kept
the feast according to His ... the holy week, the seven weeks of Pentecost, and as ...
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Letter x. --For 338. Coss. Ursus and Polemius; Præf. The Same ...
... So also the people in the time of Esther, because they ... And we thus keep the feast
on the first day ... month Phamenoth (Mar.26); from which, to Pentecost, we keep ...
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Letter xi. --For 339. Coss. Constantius Augustus ii, Constans I ...
... the creatures, and the subject [4342] of this immortal feast. ... this came to pass in
the time of the ... the seven weeks which remain"to Pentecost"giving glory ...
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Letter ii. --For 330. Easter-Day xxiv Pharmuthi; xiii Kal. Mai ...
... sent to individuals, he at the same time enjoined upon ... April 18), and keeping the
feast afterwards on ... the seven weeks of the great Pentecost, wholly rejoicing ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/letter ii for 330 easter-day xxiv.htm