MR. TAYLOR' S THIRD REPLY. 199 



The day, no more temporary than the law. 



Saturday was " fixed by a temporary statute/^ Then clearly 

 the whole law was " a temporary statute/' the very point for 

 which I am battling. If '' the seventh day'^ observance was 

 intended only for the Jeies, it follows, as I maintained before 

 (p. 89), that '' the statute itself was only for that people/' 

 J. N. B. explains that, in formerly saying the statute was oiiJy 

 for the Jeies (p. 59), he meant '' by ' statute,' what God 

 said to Moses at the giving of the manna. {Exod. xvi. 5, 15, 

 16, 22 — 31.) See particuLarly verse 26th, where the statute 

 of designation is clear as the sun; and that, too, long heforé^ 

 the giving of the Deealogue." (p. 164.) This 26th verse is as 

 follows : '' Six days ye shall gather it : but on the seventh dai/y 

 which IS the Sabhath, in it there shall be none." Now it so 

 happens that the fourth commandment repeats this " designa- 

 tion'' almost verhatlm. "Six days shalt thou labor, and do 

 all thy work : but the seventh day is the Sahhaih of the Lord 

 thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work." {Exod. xx. 10.) 

 If the former of these texts constitutes a " statute of desig- 

 nation" enjoining Saturday upon the Jews, then it " is clear 

 as the sun" that the fourth commandment is equally "a sta- 

 tute of designation" enjoining Saturday upon them. Was the 

 designation limited to them? "'Then most certainly, the 

 statute itself was only for that people.' So says W. B. T., 

 and I am most happy to agree with him," adds J. N. B. {p. 



* ]My friend's epitliets are not alTrays strictly appropriate. The 

 circumstance above referred to as liaving been " lo)}^ before the giving 

 of the Decalogue," took place not quite three weeks before ! Two 

 Sabbaths only intervened between the first imperfect enactment of a 

 Sabbath law, and the formal establishment of it in the fourth com- 

 mandment ; so that the two occasions may very properly be considered 

 but the same transaction. The Israelites arrived at the wilderness of 

 Sin on the middle of one month [Exod. xvi. 1), and at Sinai on the 

 next month [ih. xix. 1) ; three days after which (xix. 11, 16), the 

 Decalogue was orally proclaimed from the Mount (xx. 1, 18). Forty 

 days afterward, the Decalogue had been written on the tables of stone. 

 {DeuL ix. 9—11.) 



