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The Sabbath From the Beginning

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 23, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 12, No. 18.

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The Sabbath From the Beginning

The Sabbath was sanctified and set apart for God from the beginning. It has indeed been objected that there is no subsequent mention of the observance of the Sabbath by the Patriarchs; but not to say that there are intimations of a division of time into weeks (Gen. viii, 10, 12: xxix, 27.) it might for the same reason have been thought that the Jews did not observe the Sabbath from Moses to David, since in the history of all that time there is no mention of that day. Those who object to the institution of the Sabbath from the beginning, admit that if the divine command was actually delivered at the creation, it was addressed no doubt to the whole human species alike, and continues, unless repealed by some subsequent revelation, binding on all who come to the knowledge of it.—Old tract.