Ver. 15. Therefore thou shalt surely rejoice— Cecrops ordained at Athens a similar law to this; commanding that masters of families should make a feast for their servants after harvest, and eat together with them who had jointly laboured in tilling the ground; for that God delighted in the honour done to servants in consideration of their labour. Macrob. Saturnal. lib. 1: cap. 10. It is probable, that Cecrops derived this law from Moses. He lived about the time of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt, and, according to Eusebius, first instructed the Greeks to give to God the name of Ξευς, that is to say, the living God. Prep. Evan. lib. 10: p. 487. Pausanias says more than once, that Cecrops first gave to Ξευς, or Jupiter, the appellation of most high. See Arcad. Oper. p. 237 and Horat. Ephesians 1 lib. 2.
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Deuteronomy 16:15
15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.