MR. TAYLOR S THIRD REPLY. 



The text — Jnit-sabbatarian. No " holy day," in all PauPs writings. 



cessful in his business; an impossibility by the Sabbatarian 

 construction. The literal explicit text absolutely contradicts 

 this favorite perversion.* "It is clear that J. N. B. has not 

 studied the facts closely, so as to perceive their force I" 



So far, therefore, from lending even a shadow of support to 

 the fondly cherished hypothesis of a "stated day/^ and any 

 particular establishment of '^Sunday assemblies/^ the passage 

 indirectly but not indecisively overthrows the fancy. If the 

 ''first day of the week" had been pre-eminently a *'stated day 

 of public worship," it does not appear to have been the best 

 time for counting up and laying aside gains " at home,'' and 

 vice versa. My friend's artillery kicks hackicard much more 

 disastrously than it discharges/orw;a/Y?. I am indebted to him 

 for the munition. And, as if to deprive him of all hope of 

 recovering from this mischance, he has no ordnance in store 

 to substitute. For, most unaccountably, throughout the volu- 

 minous writings of Paul, we cannot find a single notice of what 

 J. N. B. claims "as a legacy from the church's risen and 

 ascended Lord,'^ a " stated day,'^ holier than other days ! We 

 cannot trace one meagre hint of such a thing. So glaring an 

 omission in the great doctrinal expounder must occasion my 

 friend a degree of concern scarcely exceeded by his surprise. 



* "Tlie inference deduced from 1 Cor. xvi. 2," says Miltox, "is 

 equally unsatisfactory [with that deduced from Acts xxi.] ; for wliat 

 the apostle is here enjoining is not the celebration of the Lord's day, 

 but that on the first day of the week (if this be the true interpretation 

 of Kara. fxiai a-a^^^arenv, per unam sabbathorum) each should lay by him, 

 that is at home, for the relief of the poor ; no mention being made of any 

 public assembly, or of any collection at such assembly, on that day." 

 [Chr ist. Doctrine, b. ii. ch. 7.) 



From the last clause of the verse it has been urged, says Whitbt, 

 that for each "to lay by in store'" must signify "to put into a common 

 box his charity; because, if they had kept it 'at home,' there would 

 have been need of gathering it when the apostle came. But," he justly 

 replies, "the expression hxa<rro<; ira^ 'eavreo TiBsroå, 'let every one place 

 it tvith himself,^ admits not this sense." [Annotations, in loco.) 



