History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

of divorce. (Matt. 19:3-9) His careful statement of
the design of the Sabbath and of marriage, tracing
each to the beginning, in the one case striking
down their perversion of the Sabbath, in the other,
that of marriage, is the most powerful testimony in
behalf of the sacredness of each institution. The
argument in the one case stands thus: In the
beginning God created one man and one woman,
designing that they TWO should be one flesh. The
marriage relation therefore was designed to unite
simply two persons, and this union should be
sacred and indissoluble. Such was the bearing of
his argument upon the question of divorce. In
relation to the Sabbath, his argument is this: God
made the Sabbath for the man that he made of the
dust of the ground; and being thus made for an
unfallen race, it can only be a merciful and
beneficent institution. He who made the Sabbath
for man before the fall saw what man needed, and
knew how to supply that want. It was given to him
for rest, refreshment, and delight; a character that it
sustained after the fall, (Ex. 16:23; 23:12; Isa.
58:13, 14) but which the Jews had wholly lost sight
of.[4] And thus our Lord lays open his whole heart
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