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THE SEVENTH DAY OF WHAT?

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 25, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 12.

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THE SEVENTH DAY OF WHAT?

By R. F. Cottrell

It is claimed that the commandment does not require the observance of a definite day, because it only says the seventh day, not the seventh day of the week. Well, of what is it the seventh day, if not of the week? It can be seen that this is a mere evasion; for suppose it did say the seventh day of the week, could they not still claim, as they do now, that it does not tell where the week commences, and so we may begin to count it on any day we please? Exactly so. You cannot prevent a quibbling. All who desire to know the truth concerning the week must accept it as it has ever been reckoned from the creation down to the present time. The week of the Old Testament and that of the New correspond precisely; where the former ends the latter begins. Matt. 28:1; Luke 23:57 and 24:1. R. F. COTTRELL.