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The disciples iinconscious of a transfer. An auxiliary testimony. 



TTell, ^'the thing^^ is not here ! J. N. B. appears to be sorne- 

 wliat aware of this, for, in adverting to the preceding occur- 

 rences of this same day, he acknowledges that up to this time 

 the disciples were evidently unconscious of any modification of 

 the fourth commandment ; and he very candidly thinks it "no 

 wonder that they did not yet understand the change of the Sab- 

 bath day.* Hence, two of them ' that same day' walked out 

 to Emmaus (about eight miles west of Jerusalem), and were 

 joined by Jesus. — Luke xxiv. 13 — 32.'' (p. 184.) 



An important link in my friend's ^' chain" of evidence has 

 here been unfortunately dropped, perhaps through the careless- 

 ness of the early transcribers of the Gospels. The following 

 passage (omitted by the Council of Nice) finds an appropriate 

 connection in the last chapter of Luke, immediately after the 

 29th verse : — 



[" 30 And when they were entered into the house, Jesus 

 continued talking and expounding the Scriptures unto them. 

 31 And before the lights were brought, for it was not yet 

 dark, he said unto them, Wist ye not that it behooved Christ 

 to rise again from the dead on the third day ? 32 And be- 

 hold this day hath been the first day of the week : henceforth 

 therefore it shall be a Sabbath.unto you; for the Son of man 

 is Lord even of the Sabbath day. 33 Therefore ye shall keep 

 the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath, throughout your genera- 

 tions. It shall be a sign unto you forever. 34 From the 

 second day of the week, even unto the end of the seventh day, 

 may ye labor, and do all your work : but the first day is 

 the Sabbath of the Lord your God ; for it is written. He rested 

 on the seventh day from all his work which he had made ; 

 wherefore the Lord hath blessed the fii-st day and hath hal- 

 lowed it. 35 Behold now ye have walked hither from Jeru- 

 salem these threescore furlongs. This ought ye not to have 

 done. 36 But I wot that through ignorance ye did it, not 

 having understanding to discern the day which the Lord hath 

 made : go henceforth, and sin no more. 37 Verily I say unto 

 you, on the first day of the week, hereafter ye shall not do any 



* A "wonder," indecd, would it have been, if they 7iac? understood it I 



