Note 11 — THE BIBLE SABBATH.
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The Sabbath was no type of Christ—a shadow, of which Christ was to be the body. It was instituted before the transgression; consequently, the term Sabbath-days, here, has no relevancy if applied to the weekly Sabbath; but it evidently alludes to the festival days among the Jews, usually called Sabbaths, as all the Israelites had at those periods to refrain from labor—"such as the festivals of the Passover, Pentecost, the Feast of Tabernacles, &c., &c., which are alluded to in Leviticus, 19:3-30. Keep my Sabbaths."—Calmet.
[12] Within does not imply that they were assembled at any public place for worship, or to celebrate a holy day. Within may simply mean, that they were together in the place of their common lodgment—where they abode together.
[13] The History of the Christian Religion and Church during the First Three Centuries. By Dr. Augustus Neander. Translated by Henry John Rose, B. D. New York, 1848, p. 186.