Reply to M. L. C by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1882

Reply to M. L. C

By Editor

To M. L. C. It is a bold misrepresentation to assert that we admitted that the seventh day was called a Sabbath in Ex. 16:23, 25, 26. The preacher to whom you refer may be, and quite likely is, ignorant of the fact that a Hebrew noun may, for reasons given, be as definite in the absence of the article as when it is used. But if he read our article he cannot be ignorant of the fact that we so stated, and that we affirmed expressly, that the word Sabbath is definite in every instance in that chapter, and is correctly translated the Sabbath.

The words of Paul in Gal. 3:15, that nothing can be added to a covenant after it is confirmed, has no bearing on verse 19, because the law was not added to any previous thing so as to make it a part of that previous thing, as you must conclude on a little examination. It was given or spoken in addition to something preceding; as it is said in Luke 19: "He added and spake a parable." But the parable did not become a part of that which was spoken before; it was merely spoken additionally.