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To: vespa300

“Oh you mean the Hebrews that says there REMAINS a sabbath? That Hebrews?”

The book of Hebrews in MY Bible says to honor the Sabbath by spiritually resting. Maybe you should read chapters 3 and 4.

The enemies of Christ physically rested on the Sabbath, but they did not honor the Sabbath. Neither do you. You don’t even know what the Sabbath means.


695 posted on 06/20/2023 1:56:08 PM PDT by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022 . )
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To: unlearner; vespa300

——>The book of Hebrews in MY Bible says to honor the Sabbath by spiritually resting. Maybe you should read chapters 3 and 4.

Better look again.

https://www.tastethehoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Sabbath-in-the-NT-Bacchiocchi.pdf

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Literal Sabbathkeeping. Further support for a literal understanding of Sabbathkeeping is provided by the historical usage of the term “sabbatismos— sabbath rest” found in Hebrews 4:9. This term occurs only once in the New Testament, but is used several times as a technical term for Sabbathkeeping in post-canonical literature by Plutarch, Justin, Epiphanius, the Apostolic Constitutions and the Martyrdom of Peter and Paul. (69)

A. T. Lincoln acknowledges that in each of the above instances “the term denotes the observance or celebration of the Sabbath. This usage corresponds to the Septuagint usage of the cognate verb sabbatizo (cf. Ex 16:23; Lev 23:32; 26:34f.; 2 Chron 36:21), which also has reference to Sabbath observance. Thus the writer to the Hebrews is saying that since the time of Joshua an observance of Sabbath rest has been outstanding.”(70) We would conclude then that both the reference to cessation from work found in v. 10 and the term “sabbatismos—Sabbathkeeping” used in v. 9 make it abundantly clear that the writer is thinking of a literal Sabbath observance.


698 posted on 06/20/2023 2:07:30 PM PDT by Philsworld (Saints are saints and angels are angels, except when they're called saints. )
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