And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Genesis 2:2,3
"The Sabbath is to be remembered and kept holy because that God hallowed it, i.e., appointed it to a holy use, at the close of the first
week.
And this sanctification or hallowing of the rest-day, when the first seventh day of time was past, was the solemn act of setting apart the seventh day for time to come in memory of the Creator's rest.
Thus the fourth commandment
---reaches back and embraces the institution of the Sabbath in paradise,
---while the Sanctification of the Sabbath in paradise extends forward to all coming time.
The narrative respecting the wilderness of Sinai admirably cements the union of the two.
Thus in the wilderness of Sinai, before the fourth commandment was given, stands the Sabbath, holy to the Lord, with an existing obligation to observe it, though no commandment in that narrative creates the obligation.
This obligation is derived from the same source as the fourth commandment, namely, the sanctification of the Sabbath in paradise, showing that it was an existing duty, and not a new precept.
For it should never be forgotten that the fourth commandment does not trace its obligation to the wilderness of Sinai, but to the creation; a decisive proof that the Sabbath did not originate in the wilderness of Sinai."
J.N.Andrews
"The Sabbath is to be remembered and kept holy because that God hallowed it, i.e., appointed it to a holy use, at the close of the first
And this sanctification or hallowing of the rest-day, when the first seventh day of time was past, was the solemn act of setting apart the seventh day for time to come in memory of the Creator's rest.
Thus the fourth commandment
---reaches back and embraces the institution of the Sabbath in paradise,
---while the Sanctification of the Sabbath in paradise extends forward to all coming time.
The narrative respecting the wilderness of Sinai admirably cements the union of the two.
Thus in the wilderness of Sinai, before the fourth commandment was given, stands the Sabbath, holy to the Lord, with an existing obligation to observe it, though no commandment in that narrative creates the obligation.
This obligation is derived from the same source as the fourth commandment, namely, the sanctification of the Sabbath in paradise, showing that it was an existing duty, and not a new precept.
For it should never be forgotten that the fourth commandment does not trace its obligation to the wilderness of Sinai, but to the creation; a decisive proof that the Sabbath did not originate in the wilderness of Sinai."
J.N.Andrews