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To: APRPEH

Just so. The six days' work is called the Hexameron in the Christian tradition. St. Basil wrote a work of that title, and there were numerous imitations, such as DuBartas's poem on the six days work, translated by Sylvester and used by Milton in Paradise Lost.

The Christian view, which I don't think is that far from the Jewish view, is that the six days' work corresponds to worldly time, and the seventh day, on which God rested, corresponds to eternity.

The final stanza of Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book VII, also refers to this tradition.

Early Christians moved their sabbath from Saturday to Sunday to commemorate Easter.


87 posted on 01/17/2007 11:29:33 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
which God rested, corresponds to eternity

Jews call Shabbos "a foretaste of the world to come"

92 posted on 01/17/2007 11:55:59 AM PST by APRPEH (id theft info available on my profile page)
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