MR. TAYLOR' S THIRD REPLY. 205 



The " seventh day" not peculiar to the Jews ; hut universally recognized. 



day . . . but the seventh day is not the Sabbath V J. 

 N. B. undertook to show that "the seventh day" had been 

 miraculously changed, and, instead of doing so, endeavors to 

 make it appear that the application of the law has been modi- 

 jQed. " A new phase in the alogy/' truly. 



Oonscious of the insecurity of his footing, he says, with 

 some anxiety : " This question has nothing to do with any 

 change of the Decalogue. This I have proved beyond dispute. 

 It concerns merely the Jewish mode of reckoning the week, 

 fixed by the miraele of the Manna, as explained by Moses. 

 {Exod. xvi. 22 — 30.) This mode of reckoning was a special 

 statute for Israel.'' (p. 174.) The hurry of my friend's forced 

 march has here driven him into a " serious blunder." In the 

 first place, the Jewish mode of reckoning the week was not 

 " fixed by the miraele of the Manna" (see Gen. 1. 10 ; Job ii. 

 13 ; Exod. xvi. 5); and secondly, if it had been, still it is 

 "beyond dispute," that "this mode of reckoning" was not 

 peculiar to Israel ; for it is identlcal with ours. It never has 

 heeii changed! Saturday is still " the seventh day," as cer- 

 tainly as it was in the Wilderness, three thousand years ago. 

 The very miraele of the Resurrection, which J. N. B. adduced 

 to show a change of reckoning, completely overthrows him : 

 for by the Record, the miraele occurred on " the first day of 

 the week," and on that same ^^ first day" is it still commemo- 

 rated ! And that no change took place before the miraele, he 

 honestly concedes from the account in Luke xxiii. 56. " Here 

 is proof," says he, " that up to that time, the Saturday Sabbath 

 was held sacred." (p. 183.) 



My friend has the misfortune to be impaled on a dilemma 

 of his own contrivance; and, I fear, will have to ride LotJi 

 horns, for the moment he is fairly upon one, he finds it neces- 

 sary to grasp at the other for support. Whether it is the day 

 of the week, or the day of the law, that has been changed, he 

 is not right clear. There is obviously considerable delicacy 

 required in the statement of the question, since his theory com- 

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