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A spiritual " Sabbatisin'' contrasted with the seventh-day Sabbath. 



the very form of pliraseology powerfully strengthens this in- 

 terpretation. The apologist, after exalting the authority of 

 Jesus above that of Moses, and strongly urging the necessity 

 of faith in him as a pre-requisite to the promised *^ rest/' sud- 

 denly drops this word {xatartavaLs) in his great conclusion, and 

 says emphatically : ''There remaineth iherefore \_Ga68ati,a/xof\ 

 a JSabbatism '/' or, as our marginal reading has it, ^' a keeping 

 of a Sahhath."^ As he had just before (^verses 4 — 6) ex- 

 pressly excluded the Sabbath of the Decalogue from the con- 

 templation of the quoted psalm, this very word " Sabbatism'* 

 would to the minds of those addressed, almost inevitably con- 

 vey the impression that the Sabbath itself was but the symbol ; 

 and that, under the Christian dispensation, it was to be ob- 

 served spiritually, in fulfilment of the very point which formed 

 to them the difficulty. Such, under the circumstances and 

 objects of the treatise, would obviously have been the under- 

 standing of its readersj such doubtless was the intent of its 

 writer. As Bunyan well says of the "rests'' discarded : "It 

 is enough that they before, did fail, as always shadows do. 

 ' There remains, therefore, a rest to the people of God / — a 

 rest to come, of which the seventh day, in which God rested, 

 and the land of Canaan, was a type; which rest begins in 

 Christ noiD, and shall be consummated in glory. And in that 

 he saith ' There remains a rest ;' referring to that of David, 

 what is it, if it signifies not that the other rests reinain not? 

 There remains, therefore, a rest prefigured by the seventh day 

 and by the rest of Canaan, though they are fled and gone." 

 {Essay on the JSahhath, qu.es. iv.) 



"One man esteemeth one day above another; another 

 esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully per- 

 suaded in his own mind." — {Rom. xiv. 5.) " But candidly 



^ WiCKLiF translates tlie passage: "Therfore the Saboih is left 

 to the people of God ; for he that is entrid into hise reste, restide of 

 his werkis as also God of hise ; therefore, haaste we to entre into that 

 reste, that no man falle into the same ensample of unbileeue." 



