"But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia
and went into the synagogue on the _Sabbath day_, and sat down. And
after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the
synagogue sent unto them saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any
word of exhortation for the people, say on. Then Paul stood up, and
beckoning with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God,
give audience." Acts 13:14, 15. "And when the Jews were gone out of
the synagogue, the _Gentiles_ besought that these words might be
preached to them the next _Sabbath_. * * * And the next _Sabbath day_
came almost the whole city to hear the word of God." Id. verses 42,
44. Paul "reasoned in the synagogue _every_ Sabbath, and persuaded
the Jews and the Greeks." Id. 18:4, 5.
All the _promises_, and all the _penalties_ connected with the
observance or the desecration of the Sabbath, refer to the _seventh
day Sabbath_, and to no other _in future_.
"Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth
hold on it; that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth
his hand from doing any evil." Isa. 56:2.
"If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure
on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord,
honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding
thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then thou shall
delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the
high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob
thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." Id. 58:13, 14.
"Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on
the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; neither
carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, neither
do ye any work, but hallow ye the Sabbath day, as I commanded your
fathers. * * * And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken
unto me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burden through the gates of
the city on the Sabbath day, but hallow the Sabbath day to do no work
therein, then shall there enter into the gates of the city, kings and
princes, sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on
horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem; and this shall remain forever. * * * But if ye will not
hearken unto me, to hallow the Sabbath day, and not to bear a burden,
even entering at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then I
will kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the
palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched." Jer. 17:21, 22,
24, 25, 27.
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