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

on the one side and on the other were they written.
And the tables were the work of God, and the
writing was the writing of God, graven upon the
tables. . . . And it came to pass, as soon as he came
nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the
dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast
the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath
the mount."
Then Moses inflicted retribution upon the
idolaters, "and there fell of the people that day
about spoken against proves that he will cease to
exist when he shall no longer be such a sign. Nor
does this language argue that the Sabbath was
made for them, or that its obligation ceased when
they ceased to be the people of God. For the
prohibition against eating blood was a perpetual
statute for their generations; yet it was given to
Noah when God first permitted the use of animal
food, and was still obligatory upon the Gentiles
when the apostles turned to them. Lev.3.17;
Gen.9:1-4; Acts 15. The penalty of death at the
hand of the civil magistrate is affixed to the
violation of the Sabbath. The same penalty is
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