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Judging the Sabbath: Discovering What Can’t Be Found in Colossians 2:16 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Sabbatarians have argued for centuries that the “sabbath” of Colossians 2:16 refers to the Jewish ceremonial sabbaths, and not the Decalogue Sabbath, based on a plain-sense reading of the context. Traditional Christian interpretation of that passage has generally bypassed the context and relied on other arguments, often unexamined by careful exegesis. In this book, du Preez examines those other...

Table 1 Linguistic Indicators for the Seventh-day Sabbath in Isaiah Ref. Keep The Day Holy My Cyclical Context 56:2 šōmēr Yahweh (v. 1) 56:4 yišmĕrû šabbĕtôtay Yahweh 56:6 šōmēr Yahweh 58:13 bĕyôm qodšî Yahweh 58:13 laššabbāt liqdôš Yahweh 66:23 šabbāt Yahweh 66:23 bĕšabbattô Yahweh While some scholars may wish to include in this table one other reference to šabbāt,5 there is little dispute that the weekly seventh-day Sabbath is in view in these instances
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