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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...

Milgrom underlined the fact that the text shows that it is “your sabbath,” and “not the Lord’s Sabbath.”18 In a similar manner, recognizing just such a crucial distinction, nineteenth-century Bible scholar John Andrews declared: “The contrast between the Sabbath of the Lord and these sabbaths of the Hebrews is strongly marked.”19 Andrews noted that the seventh-day Sabbath is called “ ‘my Sabbaths,’ ‘my holy day,’ and the like; while the others are designated as ‘your sabbaths,’ ‘her sabbaths,’ and
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