[276] _ארוח Hospes טרוח Onus ברוח Profugus Buxtorf. Synag. cap. 32. p. 493._
[277] _Moris erat veteribus in conviviis μερίδας mittere absentibus amicis. Theophrastus cap. περὶ μεμψιμορίας. Idem testatur Plut. in Agesilao. διέπεμπε μερίδας τοῖς φίλοις ἀπὸ τῶν τεθυμένων. Eundem morem Judæis in usu fuisse testantur sacræ literæ Nehem. 8. 10. ἀποστείλατε μερίδας._
Here we may note, for conclusion, that as the time of their supper was towards the evening, and then they gave greatest entertainment; So the time of their dinner was about the sixth hour of the day; that is, as we count, about Noon. Kill meat and make ready, for the men shall eat with me at _Noon, en. 43. 16._ _~Peter~ went up upon the house to pray about the sixth hour; than waxed he and hungred, and would have eaten, but whiles they made something ready, he fell into a trance_, Acts 10. 9, 10.
Moreover we may here note the difference between those _three cups_ mentioned in Scripture, ποτήριον τῆς εὐλογίας, _1 Cor. 10. 19._ The _cup of blessing_, and this is applied to those several cups used in their solemn Feasts, because of those blessings or thanksgiving annexed. Secondly, ποτήριον εἰς παράκλησιν, _Jer. 16. 7._ The _cup of consolation_; this was so called, because it was sent by special friends in time of mourning, as intending by this drinking to put away sorrow and grief from the mourner. Thirdly, ποτήριον σωτηρίας, _Psal. 116. 13._ _The cup of salvation_: this was used commonly after their _Peace-offerings_, which were vowed in way of thankfulness for benefits obtained. Whence the _Seventy Elders_ commonly translate _a Peace offering_, σωτήριον, _A sacrifice of salvation_, or _salvation it self_.
The word שבת _Schabbath_, from whence our _English_ word _Sabbath_ is derived, signifieth _Rest_, and is applied to all _solemn Festivals_. _They polluted my Sabbaths_, _Ezek. 20. 21._ that is, my _Feasts_. Sometimes it is applyed to the _whole week_, _Jejuno bis in Sabbato_, _I fast twice in the week_. Sometimes, and that most frequently, it is used for that 7th day which God had set apart for his own service. This last was holy, either by a simple holiness which belonged to it, as was the seventh day; or else by a double holiness occasioned by some solemn Feast upon the same day, and then it was called, _Sabbatum magnum_, _a great Sabbath_, _John 19. 36._ For on that _Sabbath day_ of which S. _John_ speaketh, the _Feast of the Passover_ hapned that year.