Meaning of Pentecost | Babel Free

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1. Synonym of Shavuot (“a Jewish harvest festival which falls on the sixth day of Sivan in the spring, fifty days after the second day of the Passover when the omer (“sheaf of barley”) is offered; a ceremony held on that day to commemorate the giving of the Torah (“first five books of the Hebrew scriptures”) to Moses and the Israelites on Mount Sinai”).
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2. A festival which falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter which commemorates the event described in Acts 2 of the Bible when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles during the Jewish festival of Pentecost (proper noun sense 1), conferring on them the miraculous ability to explain the gospel in languages they did not know; also, the Sunday on which the festival is celebrated.
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3. In full day of Pentecost or Pentecost day: the day on which the event commemorated by the festival (proper noun sense 2) occurred; also, the event itself.
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4. Synonym of Whitsuntide (“the week beginning on Whitsunday; also, the weekend which includes Whitsunday”).
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5. The gift of the Holy Spirit to a Christian; also, the occurrence of this.
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6. A surname.
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Examples

“Novv vvhen I vvas come home againe, & my vvife Anna vvas reſtored vnto me vvith my ſonne Tobias, in the feaſt of Pentecoſte, vvhich is the holy feaſt of the ſeuen vvekes, there vvas a great dinner prepared me, in the vvhich I ſate dovvne to eat.”

“And when the day of Pentecoſt was fully come, they [the Apostles] were all with one accord in one place. And ſuddenly there came a ſound from heauen as of a ruſhing mighty wind, and it filled all the houſe where they were ſitting. And there appeared vnto them clouen tongues, like as of fire, and it ſate vpon each of them. And they were all filled with the holy Ghoſt, and began to ſpeake with other tongues, as the ſpirit gaue them vtterance.”

“The firſt Leſſon for the Morning contains the Lavv of the Jevviſh Pentecoſt or Feaſt of VVeeks, vvhich vvas a Type of ours; for as the Lavv vvas at this time given to the Jevvs from Mount Sinai, ſo alſo the Chriſtians upon this day receiv'd the nevv Evangelical Lavv from Heaven, by the adminiſtration of the Holy Ghoſt.”

“They ate unleavened bread in Passover, and blessed the moon, and counted the days of the Omer till Pentecost saw the synagogue dressed with flowers in celebration of an Asiatic fruit harvest by a European people divorced from agriculture; […]”

“Because Shavuot is celebrated on the fiftieth day after the advent of Passover, it has been called Pentecost, a Greek word meaning “fiftieth [day] after Passover". The Hebrew date is the sixth of Sivan.”

“1. Capu[let]. […] [G]ood Cozin Capulet, / For you and I are paſt our dauncing dayes: / Hovv long iſt novv ſince laſt your ſelfe and I / VVere in a maske? / 2. Capu. Be'r [By our] lady thirtie yeares. / 1. Capu. VVhat man tis not ſo much, tis not ſo much, / Tis ſince the nuptiall of Lucientio: / Come Pentycoſt as quickly as it vvill, / Some fiue and tvventy yeares, and then vve maske.”

“The ſacrament of baptiſm vvas regularly adminiſtered by the biſhop himſelf, vvith his aſſiſtant clergy, in the cathedral church of the dioceſe, during the fifty days betvveen the ſolemn feſtivals of Eaſter and Pentecoſt; and this holy term admitted a numerous band of infants and adult perſons into the boſom of the church.”

“[I]n a remarkable grant of king Henry the eighth to the deal and chapter of VVorceſter […] he makes over to them all thoſe oblations and obventions, or ſpiritual profits, commonly called vvhitſun-farthings, yearly collected or received of divers tovvns vvithin the archdeaconry of VVorceſter, and offered at the time of pentecoſt.”

“Pentecost, day of rejoicing, had come. The church of our village / Stood gleaming white in the morning's sheen.”

“The specific event which is commemorated at Pentecost is the coming of the Holy Spirit, which is described in the Acts of the Apostles. […] Luke's description of the event focuses on the impact of the event: the disciples were empowered to preach the gospel, and to break down the barriers of language separating them and their audiences.”

“Shavuot is linked to Passover in the same way that Pentecost is linked to Easter, by a period of seven weeks[…].”

“[T]heſe three at ſeveral times did repreſent the perſon of God: Moſes, and his succeſſors the High Prieſts, and Kings of Judah, in the Old Teſtament: Chriſt himſelf, in the time he lived on earth: and the Apoſtles, and their succeſſors, from the day of Pentecoſt (vvhen the Holy Ghoſt deſcended on them) to this day.”

“But pray in vvhat language did Remi preach to theſe Bructeri and Sicambri? He ſpoke either Latin or VVelſh; and the Sicambri ſpoke the antient Teutonic. Remi, in all appearance, renevved the miracle of the Pentecoſt: Et unuſquiſquis intendebat linguam ſuam, And each underſtood his ovvn language.”

“If it be ſuppoſed that the divinity of Chriſt vvas unknovvn to the apoſtles till the day of Pentecoſt; beſides loſing the benefit of ſeveral argments for this great doctrine, vvhich are novv carefully collected from the four evangeliſts, vve have no account of any ſuch diſcovery having been made at that time, or at any ſubſequent one.”

“This learned scholar [William Ralph Inge] says that Pentecost was the occasion for the first founding of an ecclesiastical, dogmatic and despotic Church utterly alien to the simple ideals of Jesus of Nazareth.”

“Ever the fiery Pentecost / Girds with one flame the countless host, / Trances the heart through chanting choirs, / And through the priest the mind inspires.”

“Pentacostals claim to have a universal message. […] They think a new Pentecost is afoot, in which the Holy Spirit brings millions the good news of salvation in the hereafter and real blessings in the here and now.”

“Pentecost and pentecosts (as specific works of the Holy Spirit) are the sinew between—and the nisus of—Jesus' resurrection and the future resurrection of humankind. If resurrection is the seed, pentecost is the harvest: […] [T]he future resurrection of humankind is both revealed in and is the ground of the past Pentecost and ongoing pentecosts.”

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