![]() ![]() So the three Targums paraphrase ( Genesis 49:12 ) : Pointing to the lands which lay near the city of Sychar:Īlluding to the corn fields, which, when ripe, and near harvest, look white: hence we read F1 of ( Nblh hdv), "the white field": which the Jews say is a field sown with wheat or barley, and so called to distinguish it from a field planted with trees though it may be rather, that it is so called from its white look when ripe. And we read F26 of their sowing seventy days before the passover, which was within six weeks of the beginning of barley harvest.īehold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields: ``give a good part of thy seed to thy field in Tisri, and do not refrain from sowing even in Cisleu.''Īs for the barley, that was sown in the months of Shebet and Adar, and usually in the latter F25 the former of which answers to January and February, and the latter to February and March. The month of Marcheshvan, which answers to October and November, was the principal month for sowing it F24: hence that paraphrase on ( Ecclesiastes 11:2 ) : The earliest they sowed their wheat was in Tisri, which answers to our September and October i.e. ``Half Tisri, Marcheshvan, and half Cisleu, were, ( erz), seed time F23'' The wheat was sown before this time, and the barley a good while after. ![]() Some think, that this does not refer to the then present time, as if there were so many months from thence to the next harvest, but to a common way of speaking, that there were four months from seed time to harvest during which time there was a comfortable hope, and longing expectation of it: but this will, by no means, agree either with the wheat or barley harvest. Now as the passover was in the middle of the month Nisan, which was about the latter end of our March reckoning four months back from thence shows, that it was about the latter end of our November, or beginning of December, that Christ was in Samaria, and at Jacob's well. Our Lord had been in Jerusalem and Judea, about eight months from the last passover, and there remained four more to the next passover:īarley harvest, which began at that time. ![]()
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