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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 9.

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A Sabbath-day's Journey.

By Uriah Smith

O. HOFFER:
The proof that a Sabbath-day's journey was considered about two miles, is found in John 11:18; Luke 24:50; Acts 1:12. Christ led his disciples out as far as Bethany and was taken up from them. Bethany was from Jerusalem fifteen furlongs (16 would be 2 miles); and Olivet, on which Bethany was, was from Jerusalem a Sabbath-day's journey. Commentators say a Sabbath-day's journey was 7 furlongs. But none of them, so far as we find, give any authority. It seems to us that the evangelists indicate in the above texts that it was about 2 miles. The restriction of travel to a certain distance on the Sabbath rested on tradition, not on the Scripture.
U. S.