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THOUGHTS
ON
THE
SABBATH.
pretensions
of
“
the
friends
of
the
seventh-day
Sabbath.”
“In
order
to
get
rid
of
the
Lord’s
day,
they
endeavor
to
show
that
the
expression,
pia
oef33drwy,
rendered
in
our
Bi-
bles
‘the
first
day
of
the
week,”
cannot
refer
to
this
day,
but
signifies
¢
one
of
the
Sabbaths,”
or
‘one
day
of
the
week.’
But
what
Mark
and
the
other
evangelists
call
pia
oaf383drwy,
the
former
designates,
mpdry
¢a33drov,
thus
determining
the
meaning
of
both
expressions
to
be
the
same,
the
first
day
of
the
week.
The
females
who
designed
to
embalm
the
body
of
Jesus
did
not
proceed
to
fulfill
their
intention
till
after
the
Sabbath,
or
seventh
day,
was
over;
for
it
is
said,
¢
They
rested
the
Sabbath
day,
according
to
the
commandment,’
and
‘in
the
end
of
the
Sabbath,
as
it
began
to
dawn
toward
the
first
day
of
the
week,
came
to
see
the
sepulchre,”
when
they
found
Jesus
was
not
there.
It
was,
therefore,
on
the
day
after
the
seventh
day,
or,
in
other
words,
on
the
first
day
of
the
week,
that
his
resurrection
occurred,”
ete.
The
author
goes
on
to
give
an
extract
from
Dr.
Wal-
lis
in
reply
to
Mr.
Thomas
Bampfield,
in
which
the
latter
is
made
to
appear
to
eminent
disadvantage
as
a
critic.
Now,
the
writer
of
these
remarks
will
undertake
no
defense
of
his
brethren
as
men
of
learning.
Their
scholarship,
as
compared
with
that
of
others,
is,
per-
haps,
very
inferior;
but
it
is
submitted
to
the
most
scholarly
whether
¢
first
day
of
the
week”
is
a
literal
rendering
of
pia
oafpiror.
Is
it
not
a
constructive
ren-
dering
instead
?
We
do
not
ask
whether
the
construc-
tion
is
true
or
false
to
the
facts
narrated;
that
is
an-
other
question;
but
that
the
translation
is
constructive,
and
not
literal,
will
not,
we
think,
be
denied
by
any
body.
Our
objection
to
this
constructive
rendering
is,
that
it
tends
to
keep
out
of
view
the
evidence,
which
the
passages
containing
the
phrase
afford,
of
the
con-
tinued
sanctity
of
the
seventh
day
of
the
week.
To
make
this
point
clear,
suppose
a
person,
writing
the
history
of
our
late
Civil
War,
gives
an
account
of
the
battle
of
Gettysburg,
the
decisive
issue
of
which
in
favor
of
the
Union
took
place
on
the
third
of
July.
If
the
author
were
a
loyal
citizen,
his
breast
glowing
with
THOUGHTS
ON
THE
SABBATH.
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patriotic
pride
in
the
event
which
had
made
his
coun-
trv
a
nation
among
the
nations
of
the
earth,
he
would
probably
say
that
the
battle
took
place.
the
day
before
Independence
Day.
But
a
secessionist
would
simply
say
that
it
happened
on
the
third
day
of
the
month.
Now,
both
accounts
would
be
strictly
true
to
the
fact
;
yet
is
it
not
evident
that
the
secessionist,
hating
the
idea
of
freedom,
and
desiring
to
keep
out
of
view
as
much
as
possible
that
document
which
declares
that
«g]l
men
are
created
equal,”
phrases
his
language
ac-
cordingly?
Now
we
strongly
suspect
that
some
similar
"
foeling—some
latent
hostility
to
the
Sabbath
of
the
Decalogue—actuated
the
translators
of
the
New
Testa-
ment,
when,
instead
of
rendering
pg
tav
ceffdrwy,
one
day
after
the
Sabbath,
or
the
next
day
after
the
Sab-
bath,
which
would
have
been
the
literal
translation,
and
was
the
exact
idea
which
the
sacred
writer
intended
to
express,
they
rendered
it
«first
day
of
the
week.”
Tor
the
literal
rendering
would
keep
the
idea
of
the
Sabbath
as
a
sacred
day
before
the
mind,
whereas
the
construct-
ive
translation
helps
to
put
it
out
of
view.
Tryitin
the
several
passages
where
the
phrase
oceurs:
John
20:1.
«The
first
day
after
the
Sabbath
cometh
Mary
Magdalene,
early,
when
it
wag
yet
dark.”
(Just
be-
fore
the
Sabbath,
she
had
seen
Jesus
laid
in
the
sepulchre.
See
Mark
15:
47.)
10th
verse.
¢
The
same
day
at
evening,
being
the
first
[or
next]
day
after
the
Sabbath,
came
Jesus,
and
stood
in
the
midst,”
ete.
_—
.7T.
«The
next
day
after
the
Sabbath,
when
the
We
Sg
together
to
break
bread,
Paul
preached
to
them,
ready
to
depart
on
the
morrow.”
1
Cor.
16:1,
2.
«Concerning
the
collection
for
the
saints,
.
upon
the
first
day
after
the
Sabbath,
let
every
one
of
you
lay
by
him
in
store,
as
God
hath
prospered
un.
.1.
«In
the
end
of
the
Sabbath,
as
it
was
dawn-
ing
mts
frst
day
after
the
Sabbath,
came
Mary
Magda-
lene,
and
the
other
Mary,
to
see
the
sepulchre.
Mark
16:1,
2.
«And
when
the
Sabbath
was
past,
Mary
Magdalene,
and
Mary
the
mother
of
James,
and
Salome,
had