Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times . nstitution which had falleninto disuse, almost into To a nation of slaves who had known only the drudgeryof toil, a day of rest was truly a godsend. It was a memorialday. It reminded them of their grievous bondage and oftheir divine deliverance. It was a prophetic day. In theweary wanderings of the wilderness, its constant recurrencepointed them to the promised rest in the land into which theGod of
Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times . nstitution which had falleninto disuse, almost into To a nation of slaves who had known only the drudgeryof toil, a day of rest was truly a godsend. It was a memorialday. It reminded them of their grievous bondage and oftheir divine deliverance. It was a prophetic day. In theweary wanderings of the wilderness, its constant recurrencepointed them to the promised rest in the land into which theGod of their fathers was brinijinor them, and to that oth-er and more perfect rest of a sweet immortality, of whichit was the vaguely apprehended shadow. On this day thattoil which was the duty of all other days was solemnly for-bidden. The nation not only might rest—it must. Domes-tic life was relieved of all but the most inevitable toil. Themerchants caravan bivouacked for a day of repose. The * John V. ; Matt, xii., 1-21; Mark ii., 23-28 ; iii., 1-12 ; Luke vi., For a statement of the reasons on which this opinion rests, see Dr. TaylerLewis in Lange on Gen., p. 196-198. >. 32.] THE MOSAIC SABBATH. ;l^99 busy porter laid down liis burdens. The plow rested in thehalf-finished furrow. No hand might drop the grain in theopened ground, or gather the ripened and waiting even a fire might be kindled beneath any roof in Pales-tine. A genuinely democratic day it was—the poor mansspecial charter of liberty. Mistress and maid claimed alikeits jjrivileges and felt alike its obligations. The veriest slavein all Palestine felt the shackles fall from his limbs. Thevery cattle breathed that day the air of unwonted curse of the law, By the sweat of thy brow shalt thouearn thy daily bread, w^as lifted on this holy day from all theAvearied toilers of the brier-bearins: earth.* This day of rest for the body was made available for thespiritual benefit of the s
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