Not Proportion of Time, but the Day.
The day of the Sabbath law is definite. It is not remember a Sabbath day, nor a seventh part of time, but the Sabbath day, the day of the rest. What right has man to change the day of the law any more than he has the proportion of time? If infidel France is to be condemned for making every tenth day a day of cessation from work, is not apostate Christianity equally to be condemned for substituting the first day for the day expressly commanded of God? The commandment not only implies the proportion of time; it expressly enjoins the particular day. The proportion of time is incidental. The definite day is positively commanded. But we are not responsible for the blasphemy of infidelity or the sin of apostate Christianity unless we make the error our own by adopting it in the face of truth to the contrary.