Author: Thomas Newberry

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9780331122664

Excerpt from The Days of the Passover The night season appears to have been divided into four watches even, midnight, cock-crowing, and morn ing (mark xiii. The first watch lasted from sunset, or six o'clock, till nine the second watch, from nine till midnight the third watch, from midnight, or twelve o'clock, till three; and the fourth watch, from three till six o'clock, sunrise. And the time from sunrise to sunset was divided into twelve hours, varying in length according to the season of the year. The first hour commenced at sunrise, say, taking the equinoctial period, at six o'clock in the morning. The third hour would be about nine o'clock a.m. And the sixth hour, at noon the ninth hour, about three o'clock in the afternoon and the twelfth hour concluded at sunset. The months commenced with the new moon, and the year was measured by one entire revolution of the earth around the sun. The Egyptians are said to have commenced their day at midnight the Babylonians at sunrise the Umbrians at noon the Greeks, as well as the Hebrews, at sunset and the Romans, like the Egyptians and many modern nations, at midnight. In the Scriptures the Hebrew division of time is always followed, so that ordinarily the term even, or evening, indicates the commencement of another day. In some cases the evening indicates a period previous to the setting of the sun. See John xx. 19, The same day at evening but in general it marks the beginning of a new day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.