Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred…

Where sabbaton is preposed at least, it seems to be as much as Sabbatulum; and to denote the entrance into the Sabbath or the Preparation for it; such as was more solemn when [Greek or Hebrew], a great Sabbath, an High Day ensued. Such was the Sabbath before ⟨p. 29⟩the Passover, for the Miracle, as the Jews say, which befell their fore-fathers that day in Egypt. The time between the two Evenings was the Sabbatulum. This then was the Name of the Day of Rest under the Old Testament; yet was not the Word appropriated to the denotation of that Day only; but is used sometimes naturally to express any Rest or Cessation; sometimes as it were Artificially in numeration, for a Week, or any other season, whose Composition was by, and Resolution into seven, though this was merely occasional from the first limitation of a periodical Revolution of Time, by a Sabbath of Rest; of which before.

Where sabbaton is preposed at least, it seems to be as much as Sabbatulum; and to denote the entrance into the Sabbath or the Preparation for it; such as was more solemn when 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a great Sabbath, an High Day ensued. Such was the Sabbath before ⟨p. 29⟩the Passeover, for the Miracle, as the Jews say, which befell their fore-fathers that day in Aegypt. The time between the two Evenings was the Sabbatulum. This then was the Name of the Day of Rest under the Old Testament; yet was not the Word appropriated to the denotation of that Day only; but is used sometimes naturally to express any Rest or Cessation; sometimes as it were Artificially in numeration, for a Week, or any other season, whose Composition was by, and Resolution into seven, though this was meerly occasional from the first limitation of a periodical Revolution of Time, by a Sabbath of Rest; of which before.

§. 11 And this various Use of the Word was taken up among the Grecians and Latins also. As they borrowed the Word from the Jews, so they did its Use. The Greek [Greek or Hebrew] is merely the Hebrew [Greek or Hebrew], or perhaps formed by the Addition of their usual Termination from [Greek or Hebrew], whence also our Apostle frames his [Greek or Hebrew]. The Latin Sabbatum is the same. And they use this Word, though rarely, to express the last day of the Week. So Suetonius in Tiber. Diogenes Grammaticus Sabbatis disputare Rhodi solitus. And the LXX. always so express the seventh Day Sabbath; and frequently they use it for a Week also. And so in the New Testament, [Greek or Hebrew],