Isaiah 58:13-14 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight… We shall consider the words of the text — I. WITH REGARD TO THE JEWS. With that view we shall state — 1. The reasons for the institution of the Sabbath. 2. The manner in which the prophet required it to be celebrated. 3. The promises made to those who worthily hallow the Sabbath day. II. WITH REGARD TO CHRISTIANS. 1. Are Christians. obliged to observe a day of rest? 2. Is that day celebrated with all the sanctity it requires? (J. Saurin.) Parallel Verses KJV: If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: |
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