Vigil

Roman religion

• Vigil appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid seats night watches over the dead and pre-rite watches—Pallas’ wake, Trojan night vigils, and sacred night-guard speech. Vigil as a kept-night rite in that epic, not Christian liturgical vigil dump.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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• Vigil is used in Passover.

  In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the clearing of leaven is done on the vigil of the feast of the Passover — the vigil is the eve of that Passover feast.

  from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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• Vigil is used in Thirteenth.

  In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the Passover vigil falls on the thirteenth day of Nisan — the thirteenth is that vigil day.

  from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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• Vigil is used in Fifteenth.

  In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the Passover vigil opens toward the feast which begins with the fifteenth of Nisan — the vigil precedes that fifteenth feast start.

  from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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• Vigil is used in Fourteenth.

  In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the Passover vigil reckoning sits with the fourteenth–fifteenth Nisan feast span — the vigil hinges that fourteenth evening start.

  from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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