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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...

Though he otherwise broke away from many of the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church, on this matter of the alleged abrogation of the Sabbath, Protestant Reformer Martin Luther asserted that he based his teaching on the abolition of the Sabbath on New Testament passages, such as Colossians 2:16.12 In keeping with this type of interpretation, John Calvin claimed that the weekly “ ‘sabbath was a shadow of things to come,’ ”13 and that “Christians therefore ought to depart from all superstitious
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