AB. The eleventh Month of the civil Year, according to the Computation of the Hebrews; and the fifth of the ecclesiastical Year, which begins with Nisan. The Month Ab answers the Moon of July: There are thirty Days in it. Upon the first Day of this Month the Jews fast, in Consideration of Aaron’s Death; and on the ninth, because on this Day the Temple of Solomon was burnt by the Chaldæans; and the second Temple, built after the Captivity, by the Romans. The Jews believe, that on this Day the Persons who were commissioned to survey the Land of Canaan returning to the Camp, engaged the People in Rebellion. They fast likewise upon this Day, in Memory of the Edict published by the Emperor Adrian’s Command, wherein they were forbid to continue in Judea, or even to look back at a Distance on Jerusalem, with an Intention to lament its Ruin. On the eighteenth Day of the same Month they fast, because the Lamp which was in the Sanctuary was that Night extinguished, in the Time of Ahaz.
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