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36. What God or Hero was it, who ever delivered to all nations dwelling on the great element of the whole earth, -- to those on the land, and on the sea34, -- that they should make a feast in holiness, both of the body and the soul, on the day of every week which is called among the Greeks the Sun's day35? And, that they should assemble themselves together, not that their bodies should hear -- but their souls -- that it was by means of the divine teaching, they should live ?
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34. 4 So the Greek. (Orat. de laudd. Constant, ib. p. 548. D.) [...] 35. 5 [...] On the general observance of the seventh day (or Sunday). See also the Prep. Evang. Lib. xiii. cap. xii. p. 667, from Aristobulus ; and ib. cap. xiii. p. 677, from Clemens Alexandrinus. See also ray Sermon on the Sabbath, Edit. 2. London, 1834, Duncan. Whence it should seem, that this must have been the Patriarchal, and consequently the day of the primaeval, sabbath. (Gen. ii. 2, 3.) The sabbath of the Jews was a totally different thing. That was to recur yearly, after the day of preparation : i.e. on the 15th day of the month Abib. (Comp. Exod. xii. 6. with Mark xv. 42.) It could not have recurred, therefore every seventh day : that was impossible. The Jews do however, observe every seventh day. They have therefore, lost the sabbath of Moses entirely. While the Christians actually keep the primitive sabbath, with the additional sanctions of the Resurrection of our Lord, and of the gift of the Spirit at Pentecost. [...] |
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