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Sojourners; and Proselytep. Yiews of the Talmudists. 



(m' qadlsham) — literallY " that set them apart." {Ezek. xx. 

 10,12.) 



The Yery circumstance of the fourth commandment being 

 expresslj extended to '' the stranger within tliy gates,^ suffi- 

 ciently shows that it was not designed for those without th^ 

 Jewish confines.* And thus too when proselytes were added 

 to the commonwealth of Israel, from among the Gentiles, and 

 '^the sons of the stranger joined themselves to the Lord,'' ifc 

 was the " heeping of the Sahhath from polluti7ig it, and the 

 taking hold of the covenant," that constituted at once their 

 most earnest exhortation, and their most distinctive commenda- 

 tion. [Isai Ivi. 6.) 



If it were possible to corrohorate this, it might be men- 

 tioned that the Talmudical writers agree that it was instituted 

 between the Exodus and the promulgation of the Decalogue.*}* 



to them, and that the Gentiles are not obliged to keep it." Gill. 

 {Bod. Div. B. iii. 8.) 



"^ Vide e. g. Levit. xvii. 10, 13. *< The Israelites have never pro- 

 hibited a Gentile from working on the Sabbath, or advised him to rest 

 on that day, unless he were a servant or a proselyte." Talmud. 



Maimonides says it is highly improper for a stranger or Gentile to 

 observe the Jewish Sabbath. 



f "We gather from the Talmudists," says Selden [De Jure Nat. 

 lib. iii. cap. 9), "that the time of its institution was not primordial, 

 but within the month of the departure from Egypt." And after citing 

 R. Jose Ben Chilpetha, in Seder Olam Rabba, cap. 5 ; Gemara Baby- 

 lonica, ad tit. " Sanhedriiji," cap. 7 ; also tit. " De Sabbato,'" cap. 9, 

 &c. &c, ; likewise Aben Ezra, ad Deut. v. ; the Chaldee paraphrase 

 of Uzielidiis, in Exod. xy. ; Maimonides, More Nebochim, part iii. cap. 

 9, &c., he remarks: "The Jews indeed consider the Sabbath pecu- 

 liarly theirs, as if the spouse of the nation ;" and adds : " There occur 

 si x hundred testimonies to the same effect, among the Talmudic and 

 Cabalistic winters." [Ibid. lib. iii. cap. 10.) See also Wood's Bib. 

 Die. (art, " Sabbath.") 



Dr. Gill, after remarking that, in all the patriarchal history, " we 

 nowhere read of any law being given them for the observation of the 

 seventh-day Sabbath," contiuues ; " The Jews pretend that there were 



