THE SABBATH BEFORE MOSES
By L. A. R.
IN Rom. 5: 13, we are told that “sin is not imputed when there is no law.” In the twelfth verse, we are told that death came through sin. Put these two statements together. There is no sin without a law, and death comes only as a result of sin. Then death proves the existence of a law. And the fourteenth verse reads that “death reigned from Adam to Moses.” This is equivalent to saying that from Adam to Moses, or before the formal proclamation of the law on Sinai, there was law; for sin is not imputed where there is no law, and death comes only as a result of sin. It is illogical to declare that the Sabbath did not exist during these years, because the record does not mention it in connection with each one of God’s servants. Just as truly, the Sabbath is not mentioned from Moses to David, a period of 500 years, during which its observance was enforced by the penalty of death. By a similar argument, the Jubilee could be said not to have been observed; for in the whole Bible, not a single instance of its observance is recorded. What is still more remarkable, there is not on record a single instance of the observance of the great day of Atonement, notwithstanding the work in the holiest on that day was the most important connected with the service of the earthly sanctuary. Therefore to use this argument against the Sabbath, is illogical and a case of sophistry. L. A. R.