Been away from the forum a bit. Catching up:
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Originally Posted by Aquila
Historically ignorant.
People were excommunicated and severely persecuted after the Sunday edict. Who cares that early Christians were murdered over not worshipping on Sunday?
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You twisted my words and intentions.
I meant it does not tint the view as to the fact that the early church never saw the first day as a sabbath. It affects not true understanding.
It's like saying the New testament believes Jesus died on a cross, and the Catholics demanded statements that it was a cross and not a stake, or you were killed. Their mannerisms and opinions on issues mean nothing to true doctrine.
Please do not twist my words again as though I am not concerned over people being killed. Man oh man..
The bottom line is that
Gal 3:24- 4:12 teaches Sabbath was a jewish holy day not to be kept by the church. Period.
CLARKE:
Gal 4:10
Ye observe days - Ye superstitiously regard the Sabbaths and particular days of your own appointment;
And months - New moons; times - festivals, such as those of tabernacles, dedication, passover, etc.
Years - Annual atonements, sabbatical years, and jubilees.
GILL
Gal 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. Lest the apostle should be thought to suggest, without foundation, the inclination of these people to be in bondage to the ceremonies of the law, he gives this as an instance of it; which is to be understood, not of a civil observation of times, divided into days, months, and years, for which the luminaries of the heavens were made, and into summer and winter, seedtime and harvest, which is not only lawful, but absolutely necessary; but of a religious observation of days, &c. not of the lucky and unlucky days, or of any of the festivals of the Gentiles, but of Jewish ones. By "days" are meant their seventh day sabbaths; for since they are distinguished from months and years, they must mean such days as returned weekly; and what else can they be but their weekly sabbaths? These were peculiar to the Israelites, and not binding on others; and being typical of Christ, the true rest of his people, and he being come, are now ceased. By "months" are designed their new moons, or the beginning of their months upon the appearance of a new moon, which were kept by blowing trumpets, offering sacrifices, hearing the word of God, abstaining from work, and holding religious feasts;
BW JOHNSON:
Gal 4:10-11
Ye observe days. These are specifications of how they were "turning back" to the Jewish law. Compare Col_2:16. The days are the Jewish Sabbaths. The months are the new moons; the times are the Jewish festivals; the years are the Sabbatical years. In observing these there was legal bondage to an obsolete system.
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