“Thou camest down also upon Mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven … and makest known unto them thy holy Sabbath” (Neh. 9:13-14). “Though the Sabbath had been introduced a short time before when the manna first fell, it is but natural that Nehemiah should speak of it with the rest of the law, as given on Sinai, by the audible voice of God, … and made a statute in Israel. If, then, we credit the testimony of Nehemiah, we trace the origin of that Sabbath to Moses in the wilderness. There is