“We are often asked: "If we celebrate the day of Pentecost because of the coming of the Holy Spirit, why do the Jews celebrate Pentecost?" For they too have Pentecost. You heard this morning, those of you who were attentive, when the reading from Tobit was read in memory of the blessed Theogenes, that on the day of Pen…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — NEWLY DISCOVERED SERMONS 31:2
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1Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, in the which I sat down to eat.
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— Tobit 2:1 —
2And when I saw abundance of meat, I said to my son, Go and bring what poor man soever thou shalt find out of our brethren, who is mindful of the Lord; and, lo, I tarry for thee.
3But he came again, and said, Father, one of our nation is strangled, and is cast out in the marketplace.