TO CORRESPONDENTS by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 25, 1878

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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F. M. B.: For what we consider the best view of Eccl. 3:21, and 12:7, see work on Man’s Nature and Destiny. We understand Matt. 5:23, 24, 25, to teach that if we “remember” or are conscious that we have wronged any one, our first duty is to take immediate steps to make that wrong right. We cannot bring our “gift to the altar,” or worship God, in a manner that will avail anything without doing this.

Please explain Neh. 9:14, and Rom. 5:9. W. S.

Ans. The declaration of Neh. 9:14, does not mean that God on Sinai for the first time brought the Sabbath to the knowledge of the Israelites; for Ex. 16 shows that they had a knowledge of it, and were tested in regard to it, thirty-three days at least before they came to Sinai. He made the Sabbath known to them in the same sense in which he made himself known to them, Exo. 20:5, that is, by a more intimate and full revelation. We understand Rom. 5:19, to teach that all men are made righteous in Christ just so far as they are accounted sinners in Adam, and no farther than this, irrespective of their own characters. They are accounted sinners in him so far as to be subject to death whether righteous or wicked in themselves; and they will be accounted righteous enough in Christ to be released from that death.

D. B. STAPLES: In REVIEW No. 5, present volume, you will find a notice of an article from the Christian Observer similar to the one you send from the N. W. Christian Advocate, in which it is claimed that the first day of the week is called the Sabbath in the Greek. For a full explanation of the use of the Greek in such passages as Matt. 28:1, &c., the reader was there referred to the little tract published at this Office, entitled, Sabbaton. We now refer your friend to the same. It is simply astonishing that such papers as the Observer and Advocate should admit such criticisms upon the Greek into their columns.

S. J. M.: The book you inquire for is Thrilling Life Sketches of Francesco Urgos, published at this Office. Price $1.25.

GEO. D. BALLOU: In REVIEW, Vol. 49, No. 8, was published a lengthy article on the new birth. At present we can only refer inquirers on this subject to that article. We send you a copy of the paper.