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But private persons also uniformly contracted for whatever admitted of being done by contract for buildings, for the ingathering of the harvest, and even for the partition of an inheritance among the heirs or the winding up of a bankrupt estate; in which case the contractor usually a banker received the whole assets, and engaged on the other hand to settle the liabilities in full or up to a certain percentage and to pay the balance as the circumstances required.
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.
The life and death of Jesus are the central expression and ideal embodiment of this age-long process, a process the consummation of which will be the glorious return and triumphant ingathering of a redeemed and perfectly unified humanity to God.
Let us rejoice then, in any little work that God helps us to do, and be sure that if so great be the joy of the first fruits, great beyond speech will be the joy of the ingathering. IV. And now last of all, this change of name is an index of the spirit of a life's work.
There may be some allusion to that ceremony, which coincided in time with the Resurrection of our Lord, in the words here, which regard that one solitary Resurrection as the early ripe and early reaped sheaf, the pledge and the prophecy of the whole ingathering.
For it appears that sacrifices and religious assemblies in old times were made as a kind of first-fruits after the ingathering of the crops, because at such seasons they had most leisure. So then it appears that all the instances of Communion are parts of the great Social one: and corresponding Friendships will follow upon such Communions.
This fact masks the reality of the reaping here, but it points on to the great harvest when God shall say, 'Gather the wheat into My barns! II. Notice some specific forms of this reaping and ingathering. Memory. It is quite possible that in the future it may embrace all the life. 'Chambers of imagery. Habits and character. Like the deposit of a flood.
Thus hath the Tongue of Revelation spoken that which God hath made the ornament of the book of creation.... Should the inebriation of the wine of My verses seize thee, and thou determinest to present thyself before the throne of thy Lord, the Creator of earth and heaven, make My love thy vesture, and thy shield remembrance of Me, and thy provision reliance upon God, the Revealer of all power.... Verily, the day of ingathering is come, and all things have been separated from each other.
Olaf said, "It seems to me that we should not be in a hurry about preparing this feast, if it is to be as noble as we should think right; now the autumn is very far worn, and the ingathering of means for it is no longer easy; most people who have to come a long way would find that a hard matter in the autumn days; so that it is certain that many would not come of the men we most should like to see.
"Among my people it was the law," David began, but his utterance of the words "my people" was no longer lofty; rather tender and subdued; "it was the law, 'When thou dost complete to tithe all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, the year of the tithe, then thou hast given it to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within thy gates and been satisfied; and in the feast of booths, the feast of ingathering, the sojourner, the fatherless and the widow were to share in the rejoicing."
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