Sabbath

I was recently reminded that the term sabbath has meanings more than a day of rest one day in seven. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Hate to be a stickler, you two, but the sabbath is actually Saturday, not Sunday. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But a sabbatical a word derived from the word "sabbath," for rest can have enormous long-term benefits if you have the determination to do it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The profanation of the sabbath is a sin for which God has often contended with a people by fire. ❋ Unknown (1721)

They would not put off the funeral till the sabbath day, because the sabbath is to be a day of holy rest and joy, with which the business and sorrow of a funeral do not well agree. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Moreover, some people believe the sabbath is on Saturday so they would lose the entire weekend if not allowed to hunt on Sunday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bozo The Neoclown says: apparently, these tards know about as much about religion as they do how to govern properly. according to the bible the sabbath is from friday sundown to saturday ❋ Unknown (2010)

The primary object of the sabbath is holiness, not merely rest: "Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day." ❋ Unknown (1871)

But we cannot, since even Adam, in innocence, needed one amidst his earthly employments; therefore the sabbath is still needed and is therefore still linked with the other nine commandments, as obligatory in the spirit, though the letter of the law has been superseded by that higher spirit of love which is the essence of law and Gospel alike (Ro 13: 8-10). ❋ Unknown (1871)

See ch.lvi. 1, 2, where keeping the sabbath is joined, as here, with keeping judgment and doing justice. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The proper work of the sabbath is praising God; every sabbath day must be a thanksgiving-day; and the other services of the day must be in order to this, and therefore must by no means thrust this into a corner. ❋ Unknown (1721)

But, as the fasts before spoken of seem to be those that were occasional, so this sabbath is doubtless the weekly sabbath, that great sign between God and his professing people -- his appointing it a sign of his favour to them and their observing it a sign of their obedience to him. ❋ Unknown (1721)

How the sabbath is to be sanctified (v. 13); and, there remaining still a sabbatism for the people of God, this law of the sabbath is still binding to us on our Lord's day. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Well, this sabbath is over, and the first day of the week is the first day of a new world. ❋ Unknown (1721)

He did it that he might, both by word and action, expound the law of the fourth commandment, and vindicate it from their corrupt glosses, and so teach us that a weekly sabbath is to be perpetually observed in the church, one day in seven ❋ Unknown (1721)

The sabbath is a sacred and divine institution; but we must receive and embrace it as a privilege and a benefit, not as a task and a drudgery. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The sabbath is called a sign, for the sanctifying of it is a sign of a sanctified heart, and the profaning of it a sign of a profane heart. ❋ Unknown (1721)

How the sabbath is to be sanctified, and what is the law concerning it, v. 21, 22. 1. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The point you are missing again Big, is it doesn't really matter what day you call the sabbath, as long as you worship on a day that is set aside for the Lord.