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

consideration a yoke which neither their fathers nor
themselves were able to bear. But James expressly
calls that royal law, which, on his own showing,
embodies the Ten Commandmentsa law of liberty.
2. Because that this assembly did decide against the
authority of the law of Moses; and yet James, who
was a member of this body, did some years
afterward solemnly enjoin obedience to the
commandments, affirming that he who violated one
was guilty of all. (Acts 15:10, 28, 29; James 2:8-
12) 3. Because the chief feature in the Law of
Moses as here presented was circumcision. (Verses
1, 5) But circumcision was not in the Ten
Commandments; and were it true that the Law of
Moses includes these commandments,
circumcision would not in that case be a chief
feature of that law. 4. Finally, because that the
precepts still declared obligatory are not properly
either of the Ten Commandments. These were,
first, the prohibition of meats offered to idols;
second, of blood; third, of things strangled; and
fourth, of fornication. (Ex. 34:15, 16; Num. 25:2;
Lev. 17:13, 14; Gen. 9:4; Lev. 3:17; Gen. 34; Lev.
19:29) Each of these precepts may be often found
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