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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...

Thus, apparently in accord with the above lexicographically possible options, at some point the Day of Trumpets, which is the only one-day-long “set time” specifically labeled a šabbātôn, was rendered into Greek as either sabbaton or sabbatōn, which is a form of the nominative sabbata. Ref. Hebrew (MT) Greek (Minuscules)12 Lev. 23:24 שַׁבָּתוֹן לָכֶם יִהְיֶה תְּרוּעָה זִכְרוֹן σαββάτον (sabbaton) is used twice; and σαββάτων (sabbatōn) once =sabbath: Thus, the Day of Trumpets was rendered as “sabbath”
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