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

shall show hereafter. In several places he teaches
the abrogation of the law, and seems to set aside
moral law as well as ceremonial. But elsewhere, as
we shall show, he bears express testimony that the
Ten Commandments are still binding as the rule of
the Christian's life. (Isa. 1:13, 14) He quotes the
words of Isaiah in which God is represented as
hating the feasts, new-moons, and Sabbaths
observed by the Jews, as proof that the seventh-day
Sabbath was a temporary institution which Christ
abrogated. But in another place he says: "Christ did
not at all rescind the Sabbath: he kept the law
thereof." And he also explains this very text by
stating that God's aversion toward the Sabbaths
observed by the Jews was "because they were
celebrated without the fear of God by a people full
of iniquities," and adds that the prophet, in a later
passage speaking of Sabbaths celebrated according
to God's commandment, "declares them to be true,
delightful, and inviolable." Another statement is
that Joshua violated the Sabbath in the siege of
Jericho. Yet he elsewhere explains this very case,
showing that the commandment forbids our own
work, not God's. Those who acted at Jericho did
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