214 ABROGATION OP THE SABBATH. 



John XX. Matthew xxTiii. Liike xxiv. " The thing" — •wanting. 



as well as I do tliat this grand propliecy has never been ful- 

 filled.* It can therefore have no kind of application to the 

 case before us. 



n. Intimations from tlie example of Jesus. 



3. The third text of my friend brings us to the legitimate 

 field of inquiry — the New Testament. It is John xx. 16 : 

 *^ Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith 

 Unto him, Rabboni, which is to say, Master.^' Whence we 

 may conjecture that the day on which this was said was pro- 

 bably a " Sabbath/' and consequently that the law was here 

 changed. ^'^ The thing'^ is not here ! — nor the ghost of the 

 '^ thing." 



4. The fourth text is Matthew xxviii. 9 — 11 : " And as they 

 went to tell his disciples, behold Jesus met them, saying, All 

 hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and wor- 

 shipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid : go 

 tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they 

 see me. Now when they were going, behold some of the watch 

 came into the city, and showed unto the chief priests all the 

 things that were done.'^ " The tliing^' is not here ! 



5. The fifth text is Luhe xxiv. 30 — 40: "And it came to 

 pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread and blessed it 

 and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and 

 they knew him ; and he vanished out of their sight," &c. &c. 



^ LowTH remarks conceming it: " The conversion of the Jews will 

 be in the last times of this world: and then will foUow the 'new heavens 

 and earth,' which are to commence after the dissolution of this world." 

 [Com. inloco.) 



Clabke says of it: *' Some Jews and some Christians understand it 

 literally. Some refer it to what they call the Millennium ; others, to a 

 glorious state of religion ; others, to the re-creation of the earth after 

 it shall have been destroyed by fire. I think it refers to the full con- 

 version of the Jews ultimately, and primarily to the deliverance from 

 the Babylonish captivity." [Com. in loco.) 



