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Mack:vight. The Fourth Commandment exdusively referred to. 



^' As he serveth otlier boly days, he serveth the Sabbath : he 

 gives a libertj to belieTers to refuse the observation of it^ and 

 commands that no man should judge against them for their 

 so doing. And, as you read, the reason of his so doing is be- 

 cause the ' body/ the substance, is come. Christ, saith he, is 

 the hody. Nor hath the apostle, one would think, Jeft any 

 hole out at which men's inventions could get : but man has 

 sought out many ; and so, many will he use !"* {Ussay on the 

 JSahbath, ques. i v.) 



Says Macknight, commenting on this text : " The ichole 

 Law of Moses being abrogated by Christ, Christians are under 

 no obligation to observe any of the Jewish holidays — not even 

 the seventh-day Sabbath-'' {Com. on Ejnstics, Col. ii. IG.) 



If my friend desires a broader issue than that already pre- 

 sented, it may be confidently asserted that the term " Sabbath 

 days" in Col. ii. 16, not only indiules '^ the Sabbath of the 

 Decalogue" (which is all that is necessary to the argument), 

 but that it excludes all other Sabbaths if — that it refers to 

 *' the seventh day" of the fourth commandment, and to nothing 

 else ! 1. The word has no other meaning in the New Testa- 

 ment. J 2. This is always its meaning when associated with 



* " The passage quoted from Colossians refers not to the Sabbath 

 of the Decalogue, but only to the ceremonial fasts and festivals of the 

 Jews."— J. N. B. {p. 18.) 



"With what astonishment would Paul, if he were now among us 

 bodily, behold an attempt to torture his language into a direct opposi- 

 tion to a fundamental doctrine of his Master ? What conceivable 

 form of ' uresting the Scriptures' could be more painful to his generous 

 spirit?" J. N. B. [p. 61.) 



f " Tha Apostle here by 'Sabbaths' does not mean the first and last 

 days of the great Jewish feasts, which were by them observed as 

 Sabbaths, or the Sabbath of the seventh year, or of the year of 

 jubilee ; but only or chiefly the ivpeMy Sabbaths of the Jews." (Whitby, 

 Comment. in loco.) 



\ Even in those occasional instances where the word ca^Qcnov is 

 used in a secondary sense as including the interveuing space betweea 



