Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 23:54

54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

Gr. [non-Latin text not transcribed], the Sabbath shined. What Preparation was here intended, whether to the weekly Sabbath of the Jews, (that it was most certainly) or to the Passover also▪ which some will have to have been this year put off to that Day, because of the concurrency of the Weekly and the Annual Feast, I shall not determine, tho the most judicious Interpreters skilled in the Hebrew Writings, think the Passover this year was kept in its season, the Night before. But the Sabbath, that is the seventh Day drew on. The Greek Word signifies shined, the propriety of which term, hath cost Criticks some pains to make out, for it rather began to be Dark ▪ then lightsome, their Sabbath beginning after t[illegible: 1 letter]e setting of the Sun. Some think the Word referred to the evening Star, which began to shine. Others, that it referred to a Lamp or Candle, which they were wont to set up, they call it Luminare descriminationis, the Light of Discrimination, which being set up in their several Families, the Sabbath was accounted to be begun. Others think it referred to the following Day. But there need not much labour in the case, for by the same reason that it is said; The Evening and the Morning made the Sabbath Day. The Sabbath might be said [non-Latin text not transcribed] (that is to begin) when it began to be Dark, not taking the Word in a proper, but in a Metaphorical sense.

Marginal references: Math 27▪ 62. Mark 15.42.