152 ABROGATION OF TKE SABBATH. 



No rebutting text to bQ found. The Epistle to the Galatians, unas?ailed. 



"the new-moon/^ 3. The weeklj Sabbath was the pre-emi- 

 nent distinction of the Jew, and therefore necessarily the oue 

 primarily condemned in Judaizing Christians. *'Let no man 

 therefore judge you . . . .in respect of an lioly day, or of 

 the new-moon, or of the Sabbath days.'' Volumes might be 

 written in illustration and enforcement of this great "test 

 quotation.'' Volumes could not abate one jot of its signifi- 

 cance. 



The very liberal offer has been made to surrender "the 

 whole argument loltliout reserve'^ on the " trifling discovery'' 

 of one text " half so explicit or unmistakable" on the Sabba- 

 tarian side of the controversy. Though J. N. B. very frankly 

 admits that he does not " anticipate^ such an unconditional 

 surrender" (p, 80), the confident tone he assumes might al- 

 most lead one to hope that he had made the " discovery.'' If 

 so, let him not hesitate to announce it. Let him remember 

 that a single text is all that is asked : more than one might 

 prove too overwhelraing \ 



" Ye obscrve days and montlis !" said Paul, rcprovingly, to 

 the foolish G-alatians. Ye still regard with superstitious rever- 

 ence the Sabbaths and the new-moons; turning back to these 

 " weak and beggarly elements," after being redeemed from 

 bondage to the Mosaic law. " I am afraid of you, lest I have 

 bestowed upon you labor in vain." In evasion of this, J. N. 

 B. has nothing to say. His invcntive genius seems para- 

 lyzed.* 



Sabbath and Sabbath, and properly translated <<Aveek" (Matt. xxviii. 

 1 ; Luke xviii. 12, &c.), it is still the hehdomadal period that aloue is 

 referred to. 



* "The Jews," says Luther, commenting on this passage, "were 

 commanded to kecp holy the Sabbath day, the new-moons, &c. These 

 ceremonies the Galatians were constrained hj false tcachers to kecp as 

 necessary to righteousness." (Com. on Gal. in loco.) 



"That these words," observes Baerow, "relate generally to the 

 Jewish festivals, the context doth plainly enough show, and there is 



