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

Notes:
1. "On the sixth day God ended his work which
he had made; and he rested on the seventh
day," etc., is the reading of the Septuagint, the
Syriac, and the Samaritan; "and this should be
considered the genuine reading," says Dr. A.
Clarke. See his Commentary on Gen. 2.
2. In an anonymous work entitled "Morality of the
Fourth Commandment," London, 1652, but not
the same with that of Dr. Twisse, of the same
title, is the following striking passage: "The
Hebrew root for seven, signifies fullness,
perfection, and the Jews held many mysteries
to be in the number seven: so John in his
Apocalypse useth much that number. As,
seven.
3. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary on the words
sanctify and hallow. Ed. 1859. The revised
edition edition of 1864 gives this definition:
"To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy
or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate
rites; to hallow. God blessed the seventh day,
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