ACC ~ John 7 v2

FIVE MONTHS LATER

CHRYSOSTOM: It appears here that a considerable time had passed since the last events. For when our Lord sat upon the mount, it was near the feast of the Passover, and now, it is the Feast of Tabernacles. In the five intermediate months, then, the Evangelist has related nothing but the miracle of the loaves and the conversation with those who ate of them. As our Lord was unceasingly working miracles and holding disputes with people… the Evangelists could not relate all [events] but only aimed at giving those in which complaint or opposition had followed on the part of the Jews, as was the case here. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 48.1. [1]

[1] NPNF 1 14:173**.

THE COMMEMORATION OF THE FEAST

AUGUSTINE: What the Feast of Tabernacles is, we read in the Scriptures. They used to make tents during the festival, like those in which they lived during their journey in the desert, after their departure from Egypt. [1] Tractates on the Gospel of John 28.3. [2]

[1] Lev 23:33-43.

[2] NPNF 1 7:179**.

FEAST OF TABERNACLES AS TYPE

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: The law of Moses commanded that the Jews should hurry to Jerusalem from the surrounding countryside to celebrate there in a type the Feast of Tabernacles. [1] And the spiritual person will from this perceive the gathering together of all the saints into Christ when they shall be brought together from the whole world after the resurrection of the dead to the city that is above, the heavenly Jerusalem, there to offer the thank offerings of the true pitching of tabernacles, that is, of the framing and permanence of bodies, corruption having been destroyed and death fallen into death. COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 3.4. [2]

[1] Cyril is here commenting on Jn 6, but his reference to the Feast of Tabernacles instead of the “feast of the Jews” there shows either a textual problem or that he saw the two events as contemporaneous.

[2] LF 43:314*.

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