But in his "Answer to the Jews," chapter ii., he represents the law as variously modified from Adam to Christ; he denies "that the Sabbath is still to be observed;" classes it with circumcision; declares that Adam was "inobservant of the Sabbath," affirms the same of Abel, Noah, Enoch, and Melchizedek, and asserts that Lot "was freed from the conflagration of the Sodomites" "for the merits of righteousness, without observance of the law." And in the beginning of chapter iii., he again classes the Sabbath with circumcision, and asserts that Abraham did not "observe the Sabbath." In chapter iv., he declares that "the observance of the Sabbath" was "temporary." And he continues thus:-- "For the Jews say, that from the beginning God sanctified the seventh day, by resting on it from all his works which he made; and that thence it was, likewise, that Moses said to the people: 'Remember the day of the Sabbaths,'" etc. Now see how Tertullian and his brethren disposed of this commandment respecting the seventh day:-- "Whence we [Christians] understand that _we_ still more ought to observe a Sabbath from all 'servile work' always, and not only every seventh day, but through all time." That is to say in plain language, they would, under pretense of keeping every day as a Sabbath, not only work on the seventh day of the week, but on all the days of the week. But this plainly proves that Tertullian did not think the seventh day was superseded by the first. And thus he proceeds:-- "And through this arises the question for us, _what_ Sabbath God willed us to keep." Our first-day friends quote Tertullian in behalf of what they call the Christian Sabbath. Had he believed in such an institution he would certainly have named it in answer to this question. But mark his answer:-- "For the Scriptures point to a Sabbath eternal and a Sabbath temporal. For Isaiah the prophet says, '_Your_ Sabbaths my soul hateth.' And in another place he says, 'My Sabbaths ye have profaned.' Whence we discern that the temporal Sabbath is human, and the eternal Sabbath is accounted divine." This temporal Sabbath is the seventh day; this eternal Sabbath is the keeping of all days alike, as Tertullian affirms that he and those with him did.