TO CORRESPONDENTS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 17, 1878

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Can a Sabbath-keeper rent his farm to a person who does not keep the Sabbath?

ANS. We think there would be no objection, if the conditions and circumstances were such as not to interfere with his observance of the Sabbath.

If our Saviour died on preparation day (Friday) where are the three nights that the Son of man should be in the heart of the earth?

ANS. We think the crucifixion may perhaps be put back in the week as far as Thursday, which would give us, according to present names of days, Thursday night, Friday night, and Saturday night, before the resurrection Sunday morning.

W. I. GIBSON: We should regard the delivery of milk upon the Sabbath as a part of the weekly business, which should be suspended on that day.

What kind of weakness, sickness, and death are referred to in 1 Cor. 11:30? Spiritual or physical? E. A. F.

ANS. Probably physical. Paul's writing seems to imply that irregularities had become so great in the Corinthian church as to call down the manifest judgments of God upon them.

F. KINGSLEY: That which is called a “figure” in Heb. 9:9, is the earthly sanctuary built by the children of Israel, as described in the verses before. The word rendered “figure” is parabole, which Robinson says has the same meaning as tupos, type. It was a type for the time then present—a type of the sanctuary in Heaven.

A. G. WILBUR: We see no objection to performing the ordinances, all of them, on the Sabbath; nor do we know of anything confining them to the evening. They were instituted in the evening, and once celebrated in the evening, Acts 20:7; but there is probably nothing in these circumstances to determine the time of their celebration.

ANSWERED BY LETTER. C. H. Howe, J. H. Waggoner, W. A. Hall.