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on the Sabbath-day, but reproached the Prophet of Nazareth
when he miraculously cured a man whose arm was withered. (1)
To this Christ said that it was the Sabbath which was instituted
for the benefit of man, and not man for the sake of the Sabbath.
Instead of making it a day of worship and then a day of recreation,
of innocent pleasure and real repose, they had made it a day of
imprisonment and weariness. The least breach of any precept
concerning the seventh day was punished with lapidation or some
other penalty. Moses himself sentences a poor man to
lapidation for having picked up a few sticks from the ground
on a Sabbath day; and the disciples of Jesus were reproached
for plucking some ears of corn on a Sabbath day, although
they were hungry. It is quite evident that Jesus Christ was
not a Sabbatarian and did not adhere to the literal inter-
pretation of the draconic ordinances regarding the Sabbath.
He wanted mercy or acts of kindness and not sacri-
when he miraculously cured a man whose arm was withered. (1)
To this Christ said that it was the Sabbath which was instituted
for the benefit of man, and not man for the sake of the Sabbath.
Instead of making it a day of worship and then a day of recreation,
of innocent pleasure and real repose, they had made it a day of
imprisonment and weariness. The least breach of any precept
concerning the seventh day was punished with lapidation or some
other penalty. Moses himself sentences a poor man to
lapidation for having picked up a few sticks from the ground
on a Sabbath day; and the disciples of Jesus were reproached
for plucking some ears of corn on a Sabbath day, although
they were hungry. It is quite evident that Jesus Christ was
not a Sabbatarian and did not adhere to the literal inter-
pretation of the draconic ordinances regarding the Sabbath.
He wanted mercy or acts of kindness and not sacri-