The Law | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 27, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 43.

The Law.

—A tract just come to our table begins thus:—

“In Dan. 7:25 it is prophesied of the Papacy, ‘He shall think to change times and laws.’ If it would simply read, ‘He shall think to change the law,’ that would be quite sufficient to indicate the work of the Papacy concerning the weekly Sabbath, it being an inseparable part of the law in question.”

But the term is singular in the best Hebrew texts; and so the Septuagint, translated from earlier Hebrew copies than any now known, render “the law.” The Revised Version reads, “The times and the law.” Spurrell’s translation reads, “The appointed times and the law.” The text evidently refers to times connected with the law of God. Two times appointed of God in the beginning are the day and the septenary cycle, or week. The day begins at even, or the going down of the sun. The week begins with the beginning of the first day. In the attempted change of the Sabbath which the great adversary has sought to accomplish through paganism and the Papacy, both of these times have been changed,—the day from midnight to midnight, and the week from midnight Saturday night to midnight Sunday night. “An enemy hath done this;” nevertheless, the Sabbath stands.