was not a ceremonial command is proved by the fact that its violation was made a capital offence. (See Ex. 31:14.) No ceremonial command was thus enforced. Even circumcision, fundamental as it was to the whole economy, was not thus fenced up. Its neglect of course excluded a man from the Church, but it incurred no capital penalty. Care has been taken to establish this assertion on an immovable basis, because the inference from it is so direct. If the Sabbath command was in full force before Moses,