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In The Sabbath in the New Testament, Bacchiocchi summarizes and updates his extensive research by presenting four reasons for believing that the seventh-day Sabbath was kept throughout New Testament times. In the second half of the book, Bacchiocchi answers a variety of questions often asked at his popular Lord’s Day Seminar. Questions deal with historical, theological and practical aspects of...

. The new Christian understanding of the Sabbath as a time not of passive idleness, but of active, loving service to needy souls, represents a radical departure from contemporary Jewish Sabbathkeeping. This is attested also in an early document, known as the Epistle to Diognetus (dates between A.D. 130–200), where the Jews are charged with “speaking falsely of God” because they claim that “He [God] forbade us to do what is good on the Sabbath-days—how is not this impious?”10
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