Sabbath Opponents and Scriptural Exegesis
BELIEVERS in the seventh-day Sabbath are frequently charged with being opinionated, and setting themselves up as standards in biblical doctrine. But the acme of self-satisfied dogmatism has been reserved for an opposer of the Sabbath, who, after quoting and very briefly commenting upon four texts of Scripture, and referring to several of the so-called Fathers, closes with these words:— "If, now, the Sabbatarians, in spite of these proofs, persist in their opposition to the venerable tradition of Sunday observance, which has come down to us from apostolic times, this can only be explained by the superficiality of their scriptural exegesis, and their entire lack of comprehension of the progress in the divine revelation from the Old Testament to the New." That is an easy way of disposing of the matter, and of clearing himself from all responsibility for the perverseness of those who refuse to forsake the commandment of God for the traditions of men.