This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...the seventh day to keep it separate: " and these terms convey its full meaning. The command is not, " Remember the seventh day to keep it with solemnity;" nor remember the seventh day to devote it exclusively to sacrificial or other religious rites: the injunction is simply to keep it separate from other days, and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...the seventh day to keep it separate: " and these terms convey its full meaning. The command is not, " Remember the seventh day to keep it with solemnity;" nor remember the seventh day to devote it exclusively to sacrificial or other religious rites: the injunction is simply to keep it separate from other days, and the explanation of the distinction to be observed is given with the text. Other days were to be working days, but the seventh day was to be a rest day or holiday. We beg the reader particularly to note this fact, because all parties to the Sabbath controversy appear alike to have confounded the primitive Judaical Sabbath with the Rabbinical and Pharisaical Sabbath of a later date;--the Sabbath of superstition which Christ condemned, spent in fastings, and mortifications, and praying in public oratories and synagogues, of which Moses knew nothing. The Jewish lawgiver was not an ascetic; nor was asceticism the character generally of ancient worship. Moses instituted numerous festivals, but not a single fast. Fasts were all of Rabbinical origin. In common with the eastern nations, the Jews observed a mourning festival at the autumnal equinox, which with them was held on the tenth day of the seventh month. This day was to be a Sabbath on which they were " to afflict" their souls, and offer sacrifices of atonement--the only instance of the word Sabbath being connected with sorrow; and it was to be a tenth not a seventh day that was to be so observed. " And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: " And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and...
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