{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Further,<a id=\"r667\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f667\"><sup>[667]</sup></a> also, it is written concerning the Sabbath in the\r\nDecalogue which [the Lord] spoke, face to face, to Moses on\r\nMount Sinai, “And sanctify ye the Sabbath of the Lord\r\nwith clean hands and a pure heart.”<a id=\"r668\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f668\"><sup>[668]</sup></a> And He says in another\r\nplace, “If my sons keep the Sabbath, then will I cause\r\nmy mercy to rest upon them.”<a id=\"r669\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f669\"><sup>[669]</sup></a> The Sabbath is mentioned\r\nat the beginning of the creation [thus]: “And God made in\r\nsix days the works of His hands, and made an end on the\r\nseventh day, and rested on it, and sanctified it.”<a id=\"r670\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f670\"><sup>[670]</sup></a> Attend,\r\nmy children, to the meaning of this expression, “He finished\r\nin six days.” This implieth that the Lord will finish all\r\nthings in six thousand years, for a day is<a id=\"r671\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f671\"><sup>[671]</sup></a> with Him a thousand\r\nyears. And He Himself testifieth,<a id=\"r672\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f672\"><sup>[672]</sup></a> saying, “Behold,\r\nto-day<a id=\"r673\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f673\"><sup>[673]</sup></a> will be as a thousand years.”<a id=\"r674\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f674\"><sup>[674]</sup></a> Therefore, my\r\nchildren, in six days, that is, in six thousand years, all things\r\nwill be finished. “And He rested on the seventh day.”\r\nThis meaneth: when His Son, coming [again], shall destroy\r\nthe time of the wicked man,<a id=\"r675\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f675\"><sup>[675]</sup></a> and judge the ungodly, and\r\nchange the sun, and the moon,<a id=\"r676\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f676\"><sup>[676]</sup></a> and the stars, then shall He\r\ntruly rest on the seventh day. Moreover, He says, “Thou\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_128\">128</span>shalt sanctify it with pure hands and a pure heart.” If,\r\ntherefore, any one can now sanctify the day which God hath\r\nsanctified, except he is pure in heart in all things,<a id=\"r677\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f677\"><sup>[677]</sup></a> we are\r\ndeceived.<a id=\"r678\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f678\"><sup>[678]</sup></a> Behold, therefore:<a id=\"r679\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f679\"><sup>[679]</sup></a> certainly then one properly\r\nresting sanctifies it, when we ourselves, having received the\r\npromise, wickedness no longer existing, and all things having\r\nbeen made new by the Lord, shall be able to work righteousness.<a id=\"r680\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f680\"><sup>[680]</sup></a>\r\nThen we shall be able to sanctify it, having been\r\nfirst sanctified ourselves.<a id=\"r681\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f681\"><sup>[681]</sup></a> Further, He says to them, “Your\r\nnew moons and your Sabbaths I cannot endure.”<a id=\"r682\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f682\"><sup>[682]</sup></a> Ye perceive\r\nhow He speaks: Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable\r\nto me, but that is which I have made, [namely this,]\r\nwhen, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning\r\nof the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world.\r\nWherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness,\r\nthe day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead.<a id=\"r683\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f683\"><sup>[683]</sup></a>\r\nAnd<a id=\"r684\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f684\"><sup>[684]</sup></a> when He had manifested Himself, He ascended into\r\nthe heavens.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.","Chap. xv.—The false and the true Sabbath."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-180"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"857ae25dee58c938d2c8a6eaef47c9bf92fe4a41612da4e9ab0c5614c2480569","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. i. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f682","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. 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