Genesis 1

Genesis 1:5

The Day of 24 hours, [book I called Day, Numb. 8. 17. begins here at Evening, Chap. I. v. 5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31. And so Exod. XII. 18. and Levit. XXIII. 32. And hence, in Daniels time, it is called the Evening-Morning. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Dan.

VIII. 14, 26. 2 Cor. XI. 25. Yet the Account sometimes seemes to begin in the Morning: as vulgarly with us, and many other Nations. And may seeme so also, in some kinde of reckoning with the Jewes; out of Num. XXVIII. 3, 4. And so in the dayes of our Saviour, out of Matth.

XXVI. 17, 20. and XXVIII. 1. Mar. XVI. 1, 2. Luke XXIV. 1. John XX. 1, 19. Unlesse we take the day there for the time of Light contradistinguished to Darknesse; as it is, 2 Sam.

I. 12. Divers other Nations did begin their day diversly; Some with Sunne-rising; some at the setting; some at mid-night, as Astronomers with us usually do. And whereas our Saviour seemes to some to keep his last Passeover a day before the Jewes, out of John XVIII. 28. and XIX. 14. Unlesse by Passeover there we understand the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which immediately succeeded the Passeover, or Paschal Lamb, Levit. XXIII. 5, 6, 7, 8. and not the Passeover it self; or both, as Luke XXII. 1. yet supposing he did so; both upon the former diversities of accompts, may be said to keep it on the XIV. day at Even: Our Saviour rightly reckoning the Beginning of the day, from the Evening: And the Jewes then reckoning it amisse, as vulgarly, and the Romanes then did, from the morning following. But all this is only tendered to consideration.

And yet this rather then that Jesus should not be said to eate the Passeover at that time; But onely a like thing, which they please to conceive, and call, without all ground save their own imagination, a commemorative Passeover, commemorative of that which was to be kept the next day.