Theological Directory (by Topic) - Feasting

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"Feasts are made for laughter, and wine makes life merry" -- Ecc.10:19a, NET Bible

"...Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned"
-- Genesis 21:8, ESV

"And they kept the feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful"
-- Ezra 6:22, ESV

"On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined"
-- Isaiah 25:6, ESV

"Nowhere are we forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music, or to drink wine"
-- John Calvin in The Institutes of Christian Religion

"Feasting in association with weddings was common (Gen. 29:22; Judg. 14). Of some historical interest, these feasts were not two-hour affairs, and they were probably not limited to small bowls of mints...The biblical practice was to have a feast...Many moderns attend wedding receptions out of a reluctant sense of duty, and not because the feast will be glorious. This is something we need to work on"
-- Douglas Wilson in A Traditional Wedding

"[U]pon [Christ's] ascension, Christianity assumes its character as a religion of disciplined feasting, punctuated from time to time with occasional , particular fasts"
-- Douglas Wilson in New Wine

"The Lord’s Day is the high feast day of the Christian Church. It is centrally our feast day in so far as it is the day and time in which we gather as the body of Christ around the Table of the Lord in honor of His resurrection."
-- Toby Sumpter in Keeping the Fast by Keeping the Fease

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