The Crucifixion and the Sabbath
By Editor
We are continually receiving documents and manuscripts from different ones who are seeking to prove that the crucifixion of Christ occurred on some other than the sixth day of the week, or Friday; whereas the Scripture is very plain upon this question, if we will take the pains to follow its literal teaching. The principal object some of these writers and students have in trying to fix the day of the crucifixion on some other day, is that they may make some kind of special argument on the Sabbath question. But the Sabbath does not depend, for its authority, upon the time of either the crucifixion or the resurrection of Christ. The authority for the Sabbath is in the commandment itself, and that commandment is plain and specific. We lose ground and waste valuable time when we seek for an argument that would add anything to the clearness of God's commandments. "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty." God's "law of liberty" is that which we will meet in the Judgment; and it is plain enough in all its precepts, including the Sabbath command, that no one need make any mistake, or wander away from the definite truth of the infinite God. He is so particular to have everybody understand Him that He has given His divine book in the simplest language of the commonest people.