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Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred…
Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred rest wherein the original of the Sabbath from the foundation of the world, the morality of the Fourth commandment with the change of the Seventh day are enquired into : together with an assertion of the divine institution of the Lord's Day, and practical directions for its due observation / by John Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Hence this was the proper and usual Name of this Day under the Old Testament, being expressive of its Occasion, Nature, and End. The Word also hath other Forms; as [Greek or Hebrew], Exod. 16. 23. Chap. 35. 2. Sabbaton; and [Greek or Hebrew] Lam. 1. 7. Mishbat; the signification of the Word being still retained. Neither yet is this Word peculiarly Sacred as to what it denotes, but is used to express things common or Profane; even any Cessation, resting, or giving over. The first time it occurs, Gen. 2. 3. it is rendered in Targum, by [Greek or Hebrew], a common Word to rest. See Isa. 14. 4. Chap. 24. 8. and many other places. It is also applied, to signify a Week; because every Week, or seven of Days, had a Sabbath or Day of Rest necessarily included in it, Levit. 23. 15. You shall count to your selves; [Greek or Hebrew] seven complete Sabbaths; that is Weeks, each having a Sabbath in it for its close; for the reckoning was to expire on the End of the seventh Sabbath; v. 16. And this place being expounded by Onkelos in his Targum of a Week; Nachmanides says upon it, that if it be so (which he also grants and pleads) then [Greek or Hebrew], there will be two Tongues in one Verse; or the same Word used twice in the same Verse with different significations; namely, that the Word [Greek or Hebrew] should denote both the Holy Day of Rest, and also a Week of Days. And he gives another Instance to the same purpose, in the Word [Greek or Hebrew], Judg. 10. 4. Jair the Gileadite ⟨p. 27⟩had thirty sons, [Greek or Hebrew], where the Word [Greek or Hebrew] signifies in the first place Colts of Asses, and in the latter, Cities. And the common number of seven is expressed by it, Levit. 25. 8. Thou shalt number unto, [Greek or Hebrew], seven Sabbaths of years; that is, as it is expounded in the next words, [Greek or Hebrew] seven times seven years; seven years being called a Sabbath of years, because of the Lands resting every seventh year, in answer to the Rest of the Church every seventh Day: (see the Targum, on