to which it may be added, this seventh month was very memorable for holy solemnities, as the day of atonement on the tenth, and the feast of tabernacles, which began on the fifteenth, and therefore was ushered in with blowing of trumpets to make it the more significant, and particularly to put the people in mind to prepare for the day of atonement near at hand; and so Gersom observes, that as the sound of a trumpet strikes men with fear, the design of this precept was, to fill the mind with fear, and to excite to repentance and brokenness of heart, and humiliation for sin, and to search their works and actions, and correct what was amiss, and so be ready for the day of atonement: hence Ainsworth thinks, that this was a figure of the ministry of John the Baptist preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; but rather it seems to be an emblem of the Gospel, and the ministry of it, in the acceptable year of the Lord, or the Gospel dispensation, which is sometimes signified by the blowing of the great trumpet, and by the ministers of it lifting up their voice like a trumpet, Isa 27:13; by which sinners are roused and awakened to a sense of their sin and danger, and to hear a joyful sound of love, grace, mercy, peace, pardon, righteousness, and salvation through Christ: the Jews say , this blowing of trumpets was to disturb Satan, when he came to accuse the Israelites; it is certain there is nothing gives him more disturbance than the pure and powerful preaching of the Gospel, which he endeavours to obstruct as much as possible, and there is nothing like what that brings to silence his accusations, see 2Co 4:3,an holy convocation; on which the people were called together to holy exercises; and so the Jews observe it to this day; for after they return home from attendance to the blowing of the trumpets in their synagogues, they sit down to meat, and spend the rest of the day in hearing sermons, and in other religious exercises .
Maimon. Hilchot Shophar ve Succah, c. 2. sect. 1. Ibid. sect. 8. Ib. ch. 3. sect. 1. Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. No. 590. sect. 1. Misn. Roshhashanah, c. 1. sect. 1. Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 588. sect.
1. Lebush, par. 2. c. 588. sect. 1. R. Alphes, par. 1. fol. 346. 2. & Jarchi in loc. Maimon. ut supra, () c. 1. sect. 1. Schulchan Aruch, ib. c. 526. sect. 1. Schulchan Aruch, ib. c. 583. sect. 2. Lebush, ib.
583. sect. 2. Misn. Roshhashanah, c. 1. sect. 2. T. Bab. Roshhashanah, fol. 16. 2. Leo Modena's History of Rites of the present Jews, par. 3. c. 5. sect. 7. T. Bab. Roshhashanah, fol. 10. 2. Targum Jon.
in Numb. xxix. 1. R. Alphes, par. 1, fol. 346. 2. T. Bab. Roshhashanah, fol. 16. 2. Leo Modena, ut supra.