_f_--Ascension Day (Holy Thursday), June | | 3d; Ascension-tide, | 10 | 1 Expectation Sunday, first Sunday | | after Ascension, June 6th. | | | | _g_--Whitsun Day, (Pentecost) June 13th; | | Whitsun-tide, | 7 | 1 | | _3d_ Ember Week, after Whitsun Day; Ember | | Days, Wednesday, Friday and | | Saturday. | | | | _h_--Trinity Sunday, June 20th; | | Trinity-tide, | 161 | 23 | | _4th_ Ember Week, after September 14th; | | Ember Days, Wednesday, Friday and | | Saturday. | | | | All Saints' Day, November 1st. | | | | All Souls' Day, November 2d | | +--------------+-------------- Appendix K. | 364 | 52 ------------------------------------------+--------------+-------------- CHAPTER VIII. HEBREW CALENDAR. To the Bible student a knowledge of the Hebrew calendar is indispensable, if he would know how the date of events recorded in the Bible are made to correspond with our present English calendar. From the exodus (1491 B. C.) downward, the Hebrew month was lunar, and commenced invariably with the new moon. Dr. Smith, author of Bible Dictionary, says that the terms for month and moon have the same close connection in the Hebrew language as in our own, only the Hebrew Codesh (that is new moon) is, perhaps, more distinctive than the corresponding term in our language; for it expresses not simply the idea of a lunation, but the recurrence of a period commencing definitely with the new moon. Though the identification of the Jewish month with our own cannot be effected with precision on account of the variations that must necessarily exist between the lunar and the solar month, each of the former ranging over portions of two of the latter, still it can be shown how they may be made to coincide very nearly by a systematic method of intercalation.