In other words Philo is saying the weekly Sabbath begins these Feasts, and is on the 15th.This proves the Sabbaths by the moon; because there is no way the weekly Sabbath (15th) can begin these two festivals on the 15th in the 1st and 7th month, on a continuous seven day cycle by the calendar of today. Send for the free book Weekly Sabbaths by the Moon. The book pinpoints sixty eight (68) weekly Sabbaths in the Old and New Testaments and all are on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of the moon without exception, and a $10,000 reward is offered to anyone who can pinpointed a weekly Sabbath on any other day, than by the moon.
To prove Philo and the people at the time of the New Testament understood the Sabbaths are by the moon, all one has to do is read on page 313 ix of Philo where he is speaking of how the soul of man can be illuminated until it is entirely changed, and becomes a heavenly brilliance like a full moon, at the height of its increase at the end of the second week.
What did he just say??? Did his readers of that era, or in those days understand that the weeks were by the moon, and that at the end of the second week they would be a full moon???
If so then the Sacred Seventh day, which comes at the end of the week must be a full moon Sabbath. Why? Because in many places he speaks of the weekly seventh day. They had four Sabbaths per month, and at the end of the first week you will have a half moon, (first Sabbath) called the first quarter, and at the end of the second week you will have a full moon, (second Sabbath) just like the people that Philo was writing to at the time period of the Saviors time.
Notice again Philo on page 532 (161) "But to the Seventh day of the week He has assigned the greatest (longest) festivals," Remember these both begin on the 15th, and on page 551(189) he states the 15th is the full moon, and it begins these feasts. Can't we see that they understood that the Sacred Sabbath day began these feasts and that it was at the full moon, and that the full moon happened at the end of the second week making it the Sabbath or seventh day of the week???
See also page 550. (177) where he explains how the moon receives these perfect shapes in periods of seven days--the half-moon in the first seven day period after it's conjunction with the sun, full moon in the second; and when it makes it's return again the first is to half-moon, then it ceases at its conjunction with the sun.
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See also page 26 iv (8) " And the changes which the moon works in the air, it prefects chiefly in accordance with its own configurations on each seventh day". Must I say more, because there is more, or is this sufficient to convince the truth seeker? I Think so. Please remember Philo is simply relating how his people (Israelites) done things, and how weeks and Sabbaths were determined.
In his book from Sabbath to Sunday by Samuel Bacchicchi, page 246 proves the planetary week before A.D. 79, from an inscription which reads the 9th day before the month of June (May 23) the Emperor … it was the day of the Sun or Sunday, this proves the 22nd was Sabbath or Saturday after being named after the plant Saturn. And so was the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th etc. Coincidence?
Let’s look at another source found on page 239 of his book. A calendar of the time of Augustus dated before 27 B.C. beside the date of August 9th reads the native Sun or Sunday which again puts Sabbath or (Saturday) again on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th. This book was given to me to help me see where I am wrong in keeping Sabbaths on 8, 15, 22, and 29 of the moon, but nowhere does the findings in the book do anything but support the moon Sabbaths.
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