Sabbath continued
The Test Commandment
The fourth commandment completes the first section of the Ten Commandments, which deals with man's relationship to God. It provides for the perpetual observance of a sign of the relationship between God and man.
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it" (Exodus 20:8-11).
But why Saturday, not Sunday?
This test commandment is, in its wording, the longest of any of the ten. It is placed, protectively as it were, in the very midst of the Ten Commandments. Yet, sad to say, it is the one command which men "reason" and argue most, and which they would most quickly tear asunder and try to separate from the rest of God's law.
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The Test Commandment
The fourth commandment completes the first section of the Ten Commandments, which deals with man's relationship to God. It provides for the perpetual observance of a sign of the relationship between God and man.
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it" (Exodus 20:8-11).
But why Saturday, not Sunday?
This test commandment is, in its wording, the longest of any of the ten. It is placed, protectively as it were, in the very midst of the Ten Commandments. Yet, sad to say, it is the one command which men "reason" and argue most, and which they would most quickly tear asunder and try to separate from the rest of God's law.
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