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Essays and Miscellanies

BOOK IV
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And this may be discovered out of Demosthenes and Menander.

Nor would it be out of place, were any one to say that the name Sabbath was given to this feast from the agitation and excitement [Greek omitted] which the priests of Bacchus display.

The Jews themselves witness no less; for when they keep the Sabbath, they invite one another to drink till they are drunk; or if they chance to be hindered by some more weighty business, it is the fashion at least to taste the wine.

Some perhaps may surmise that these are mere conjectures.

But there are other arguments which will clearly evince the truth of what I assert.


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