CHRIST’S LAW by L. Caldwell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 3, 1877

CHRIST’S LAW.

By L. Caldwell

1. “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” Matt. 4: 10. “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Rom. 10: 13.

2. “For as much as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone graven by art or man’s device.” Acts 17: 29.

3. “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.” Matt. 6: 9; also, Col. 3: 17.

4. “Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor thy father and thy mother (which is the first commandment with promise), that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.” Eph. 6: 1, 2; 5: 21; Rom. 12: 10.

5. “Thou shalt not kill.

6. “Thou shalt not commit adultery.

7. “Thou shalt not steal.

8. “Thou shalt not bear false witness.

9. “Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment it is briefly comprehended in this saying, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” etc. Rom. 13: 9, 10.

10. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God

with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” Matt. 22: 37.

11. “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Verse 39.

Concerning these commandments we remark: The first clause of the first is quoted from Deut. 6: 13, and addressed three years before the crucifixion to the devil! The latter clause was written A. D. 60. The second was spoken by Paul on Mars’ hill, A. D. 53. The third is part of the sermon on the mount, spoken A. D. 31. The fourth was written to the Ephesians, A. D. 64, thirty-three years after the resurrection. The next four are given by Christ before the cross, Matt. 19: 18, and written by Paul to the Romans, A. D. 60. Chap. 13: 9. The last two are quoted by Christ from Deut. 6: 5, and Lev. 19: 18.

From “The Sabbath,” by Rev. Y. B. Meredith, Methodist, we quote, in a comment on Luke 16: 16: “The inference is clear in this scripture that the former dispensation was confined to the Jews; but, from the time of John the law being taken away a broader provision is made for all men.” P. 23. In p. 24, in comment on Rom. 10: 4: “Here the law having accomplished its work is abolished.” On p. 27, he says: “The day of the N. T. Pentecost was the first day of the week; and does not this transfer the Sabbath to the first day?” On p. 30, in comment on Col. 2: 14–17: “Is the Sabbath here included? Most certainly. All were fulfilled in Christ; he nailed them to the cross. Here the transfer of the Sabbath is as clear as the noonday sun!”

On p. 31: “Again, it is midnight in one place and midday in another; so we see in what inextricable labyrinths of confusion their specific day and hour are involved.” On p. 35, in answer to the same objection to Sunday-keeping he says: “In every place at the appointed hour for that place the Sabbath should begin; likewise at the appointed hour it should end, irrespective of differences of longitude.” O consistency, thou art a jewel! How clear shines out the truth as compared with these shifts to evade the fact that “The seventh day is the Sabbath.”

L. CALDWELL.

Bourbon, Ind.