2346.—Beginning of the Sabbath.
If the Sabbath begins at the setting of the sun, should it not close at the rising? I have been taught that the Sabbath begins with the rising of the sun and closes with the setting, when Sabbath night begins.
F. R. The definition of a day which God has given in the first chapter of Genesis, repeated over and over, is that the evening and the morning constitute the day, that is, the dark and the light. Day is sometimes used in the sense of the light part, but the whole day is expressed by "evening-morning," the night and day, the day beginning with the evening. "From even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath." Lev. 23:32. Our inquirer would have only a part of the day in this way. God's Sabbath day covers one rotation of the earth.