A53694:58
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.
speaking in contradiction as he thought unto them, And so Horace mentions their tricesima Sabbata, which were no other but their New Moons. And to this usual manner of speaking in those days, doth our Apostle accommodate his Expressions; Col. 2. 16. Let no man therefore judge you in Meat or in Drink, or in part of an Holy day, (any part of it, or respect unto it) or of the New Moon, or of the Sabbaths; that is, any of the Judaical Feasts whatever, then commonly called Sabbaths. So Maimonides Tract. de Sabb. cap. 29. speaking of their [Greek or Hebrew], Good Days or Feasts; says expressly, [Greek or Hebrew], they are all Sabbaths to the Lord.
speaking in contradiction as he thought unto them, And so Horace mentions their tricesima Sabbata, which were no other but their New Moons. And to this usual manner of speaking in those dayes, doth our Apostle accommodate his Expressions; Col. 2. 16. Let no man therefore judge you in Meat or in Drink, or in part of an Holy day, (any part of it, or respect unto it) or of the New Moon, or of the Sabbaths; that is, any of the Judaical Feasts whatever, then commonly called Sabbaths. So Maimonides Tract. de Sabb. cap. 29. speaking of their 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Good Dayes or Feasts; sayes expresly, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, they are all Sabbaths to the Lord.
And from this usage, some think to expound that vexed Expression, of [Greek or Hebrew], Luke 6. 1. which we render the second Sabbath after the first. So Suidas, [Greek or Hebrew]. It was the second day of the Passover, and the first of unleavened bread. And wonder not that it is called a Sabbath; for they called every Feast Day a Sabbath. Theophylact gives us another Day, but on the same Reason: Saith he, [Greek or Hebrew]. The Jews call every Feast a Sabbath: For Sabbath is as much as Rest. Oft-times therefore there fell out a Feast on the day before the Weekly Sabbath; and they called it a Sabbath, because it was a Feast. And therefore that which