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72021 Facts of Faith, p. 76.1 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath with hundreds of man-made regulations. All these Jesus swept away, and restored it to its original purpose, that it should be a blessing, a sacred …

72022 Facts of Faith, p. 76 (Christian Edwardson)

Satan’s Hatred of the Sabbath

72023 Facts of Faith, p. 76.2 (Christian Edwardson)

. This was true even after they went into idolatry. Egypt was the first among the heathen nations to attempt to suppress the seventh-day Sabbath, and influenced …

72024 Facts of Faith, p. 77.1 (Christian Edwardson)

… consummated. ‘Sabbath’ is derived from both ‘rest’ and ‘seven.’ With the Egyptians it was the reverse.... For them on the contrary the sun-god was the beginning and origin …

72025 Facts of Faith, p. 78.3 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath of Jehovah and to elevate Sunday as a joyful day. The Egyptians worshipped their sun-god under the name of Osiris, and the Apis bull (the golden calf …

72026 Facts of Faith

… our Sabbath-day Sunday you are reminded of our great, great, great grandfathers’ principal deity.” — “Anglo-Israel in Nine Lectures,” pp. 389, 890. Detroit, Mich.: 1889 …

72027 Facts of Faith, p. 79.5 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath of Jehovah? Every thoughtful person must say with the Apostle Paul: “God forbid.” Romans 3:31 .

72028 Facts of Faith, p. 80.1 (Christian Edwardson)

… to Sabbath observance. He worked as a “carpenter” at Nazareth during “the six working days,” but rested on the seventh-day Sabbath. ( Mark 6:2, 3; Ezekiel 46:1; Luke 4:16 …

72029 Facts of Faith, p. 80.2 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath days ( Matthew 12:1-12 ), He thereby acknowledged the claims of the Sabbath law, which makes ordinary work not lawful on that day. It was “the Spirit of …

72030 Facts of Faith, p. 81.1 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath, or Saturday, as the still valid rest day, by saying: ‘Pray, that your flight be not on the Sabbath’ (on which day ye according to the third [fourth] commandment …

72031 Facts of Faith, p. 81.2 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath day.’ The Jewish Christians might entertain scruples against travelling on the Sabbath beyond the legal distance, which was about five furlongs …

72032 Facts of Faith, p. 81.3 (Christian Edwardson)

Sabbath-keeping, that they would not even anoint His sacred body on the Sabbath. They “prepared spices and ointments” on Friday, “and rested the Sabbath day according …

72033 Facts of Faith, p. 82.1 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath, and when asked by the Gentiles to preach the same sermon again, he did not suggest a meeting on Sunday, but waited till “the next Sabbath day.” ( Acts …

72034 Facts of Faith, p. 82.2 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, does it not seem strange that they never informed us about it in the New Testament, which is the only …

72035 Facts of Faith, p. 83 (Christian Edwardson)

The Sabbath in History

72036 Facts of Faith, p. 83.1 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath question, we shall first consult an eyewitness, who had travelled over the greater part of Christendom: Socrates, the Greek historian, who was …

72037 Facts of Faith

… the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, refuse to do this. The Egyptians in the neighbourhood …

72038 Facts of Faith, p. 83.3 (Christian Edwardson)

The footnote which accompanies the foregoing quotation explains the use of the word ” Sabbath...” It says:

72039 Facts of Faith

… ‘the Sabbath’ by the ancient Fathers and historians.... The Latins kept the Sabbath as a fast, the Greeks as a feast; and the 64th of the Apostolical Canons forbids …

72040 Facts of Faith, p. 83.4 (Christian Edwardson)

… the Sabbath. Who was it that urged this Sabbath fasting against the will of the churches in general? Pope Sylvester (314-335) was the first to order the churches …