198 ABROGATION OF THE SABBATH. 



Tlie designation, long antecedent to the Sabbath law. 



tlie giving of the Decalogue at Sinai. But this is coming on to 

 my ground, and abandoning his own. To avoid this, will my 

 friend say the seventh day was determined by the giving of 

 the manna ? This I understand him to do in these words : 

 ^ Saturday is the seventh day sajs God by the manna/ But 

 this again is abandoning his original position, and coming over 

 to mine." (p. 163.) Not quite so fast. It by no means so 

 '' irresistibly follows that the seventh-day Sabhath was uni- 

 versally recognized" previously, because " the seventh day'' 

 was so recognized ; any more than it follows that the seventh 

 day Sabbath is now universally recognized because " the 

 seventh day'' is. The Egyptians long previously had the 

 week and ''the seventh day/' but they certainly had not the 

 " Sabbath.'^ As little does it follow that " the seventh day 

 was determined by the manna/^ because God said by the 

 manna, "Saturday is the 'seventh day'" of the law. The 

 seventh day was not "determined by the manna.'^ It had 

 been "determined" centuries before. It was determined when 

 the iveek was instituted ; and without this " determination," 

 there never could have been the " week." As to the "ample 

 proof" demanded for my previous assertion (p. 88), it is found 

 in the fact that only one day of the week either was or could 

 be, yo7n lia-sliihingi, " day the seventh." Day Ha- Shihingi 

 was indisputably much older than the Jewish Sabbath law, 

 and, therefore, this law, in using the term, was necessarily re- 

 stricted to the well-established meaning of that term; just as 

 our own law in using the term " Sunday" necessarily desig- 

 nates the Jii'st day of the week ; or just as an appointment of 

 "seventh day" for any purpose by the society of " Friends" 

 could not possibly intend any day but Saturday. J. N. B. 

 is perfectly right, therefore, when he agrees with me that, as 

 certainly as man can know, ^^ Saturday \s the Sabbath enjoined 

 on the Jews." He is as clearly wrong when he denies that 

 it is "enjoined in the Decalogue." 



Ile attempts to uphold the distinction, by contcnding that 



