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THE SABBATH A SIGN

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 17, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 19, No. 3.

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THE SABBATH A SIGN.

“SPEAK thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: for in sixdays the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. Ex. xxxi, 13, 16, 17. Also Eze. xx, 12, 20.
Dr. A. Clarke says, "The religious observance of the Sabbath was the first statute or command of God to men. This institution was a sign between God and them to keep them in remembrance of the creation of the world." Comments on Eze. xx, 12.
Prof. M'Owen, a late Methodist author on the Sabbath, says, "The Sabbath was instituted to commemorate the creation of the world. . . . To furnish the world with a standing demonstration of the falsehood and absurdity of idolatry, he instituted the Sabbath. By blessing the Sabbath and hallowing it, by resting therein, and by challenging it for himself, God stamped it with his own image and superscription, and hence its desecration was reckoned, among the Jews, as a sin of treason against his infinite Majesty." Works, pp. 12, 14.
Justin Edwards says, "The reason which God gave on the tables of stone for keeping the Sabbath, was not a Jewish reason. It was one which applies alike to all men. 'For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.' But he did not make them for Jews merely, or for any particular people. He made them for us, and for all men. As a memorial of that fact, he set apart the Sabbath, kept it, sanctified and blessed it, for the benefit of all. . . . Thus the keeping of the Sabbath makes God known, and gives efficacy to his moral government. . . . It commemorates the work of God as Creator," &c. Sabbath Manual.
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