How To Use Sabbath In A Sentence

  • Moreover, it is expressly added that if the day before the Passover falls on a Sabbath, one may in this manner purchase a Paschal lamb, and, presumably, all else that is needful for the feast.
  • Interestingly the manna did not fall on Sabbath, but the shewbread was renewed each Sabbath.
  • Retailers, mainly garages and newsagents, have already privately canvassed staff on whether they would be willing to work on the Sabbath.
  • Whereas John had worked outside settled areas, Jesus went from town to town, village to village, usually preaching in synagogues on the sabbath.
  • He needs consecrated men, to hurl them against the organized powers, and inbreaking hordes, that are desecrating the Sabbath, corrupting the Sketches of the Covenanters
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  • A sabbath of sabbatism, so others read it, being typical of that sabbatism or rest, both spiritual and eternal, which remains for the people of God, Heb. iv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
  • In preparation for the great feast, the shophar is sounded morning and evening excepting Sabbaths, throughout the entire preceeding month of Elul. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • He was planning to smite his enemies and didn't want to do it on the Sabbath.
  • That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath breaker, because his plough goeth every Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
  • He ordered the Temple in Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Greek gods and forbade the practice of circumcision, kashrut, and observance of the Sabbath.
  • Matthew, and Thomas, and the still more familiar Jack and Jockey; and even with a few words of Hebrew origin, such as alleluia, balm, bedlam, camel, cider, and sabbath. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
  • And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Ko'hathites, were over the showbread, to prepare it every sabbath. 1 Chronicles 9.
  • So sabbath meals have to be cooked before the Sabbath.
  • I always wanted to play like Tommy Iommi," he said, referring to the guitarist for heav-metal heroes Black Sabbath. Rhys Chatham Brings the Noise
  • With his wheezing voice and affinity for using his lecture wand as a torture instrument, any midnight Sabbath sounded better.
  • Anything that interrupts a matinal sabbath repose is bound to stir things up. Antonio Garcia-Martinez: Pseudorandomness, Or How I Got Into Y Combinator and Had a Child With a Woman I Barely Knew, Almost Simultaneously
  • The families did not always look favorably upon their daughter’s activities in a mixed organization that was secular from the outset, in which training exercises were held on the Sabbath and holidays, and basic religious strictures such as kashrut and modesty of dress were not observed (the girls wore trousers or shorts). Haganah.
  • But we cannot, since even Adam, in innocence, needed one amidst his earthly employments; therefore the sabbath is still needed and is therefore still linked with the other nine commandments, as obligatory in the spirit, though the letter of the law has been superseded by that higher spirit of love which is the essence of law and Gospel alike (Ro 13: 8-10). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • One of the 10 commandments is to keep the Sabbath Holy.
  • The Sabbath was reserved for Sunday tea - usually in the presence of a posse of relatives, called in by postcard from the tram-rocking outer suburbs.
  • The speaker advocated a less austere observance of the Sabbath.sentence dictionary
  • And a child that's born on the Sabbath day. 
  • The Spanish language even has a verb, sabadear, which refers to praying on the Sabbath, for the unknowing Christian assumed that the swaying motion of the Jew during the Amidah was a special part of the Sabbath prayer. Conversas.
  • That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. XLI. Of Usury
  • No wonder, that: even the lowliest beat cop stood to preserve many times that each month by preserving the system of traffic bribes, shakedowns of neighborhood bodegas that wished to remain open in contravention of the city's labynthine Sabbath laws, in free meals and "flutes" -- Coke bottles topped off with liquor -- from their precincts 'restaurants and bars. May 2008
  • Shop on the Sabbath-but remember thy credit limit, and keep it holy. 14.
  • The chazan, or "overseer," in the synagogue answered to the bishop or "angel" of the Church, who called seven of the synagogue to read the law every sabbath, and oversaw them. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Ye s 'hae't afore kirk-time, but ye maun come intil the hoose to get it, for the fowk wud be scunnert to see me workin' upo 'the Sabbath-day. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
  • Jews celebrate the Sabbath by lighting candles before the Sabbath, singing songs, going to synagogue, called shul, by some, and learning. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • God set forth in the Sabbath ordinance His own pattern of rest.
  • 'T' maister nobbut just buried, and Sabbath no o'ered, und t 'sound o' t 'gospel still i' yer lugs, and ye darr be laiking! Wuthering Heights
  • She began to feel blindly that God was not alone the keeper of eternal Sabbaths, but the germinant heat at the heart of the world. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life
  • The Sabbath was, I agree, a covenantal sign for the Mosaic covenant, and it certainly ceased as a 7th day covenant.
  • They can't even go to the synagogue to fulfil their religious duties on the Sabbath.
  • And see you not how the mighty engine of _moral power_ is dragging in its rear the Bible and peace societies, anti-slavery and temperance, sabbath schools, moral reform, and missions? or to adopt another figure, do not these seven philanthropic associations compose the beautiful tints in that bow of promise which spans the arch of our moral heaven? The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • White beaches, standing stones, flowers on the machair, Gaelic psalm-singing (which sounds like no other church music in Europe - a Chinese or Mongolian feel to it) and monstrous alcohol consumption on a Saturday night (an Englishman is best advised to avoid Stornoway dockside bars) followed by a real Sabbath - no shops, taxis, bars - you go for a walk or go to church. Archive 2005-06-26
  • It's heavy stuff, but heavy needs to either be deceptively light on its feet (ala Deep Purple) or unremorsefully jarring in its very density (a la Black Sabbath).
  • Moreover, the Orthodox wouldn't be able to attend synagogue on the Sabbath without an eruv.
  • There are many Israeli companies that "desecrate" the Sabbath already. IAGblog
  • Thus the original meaning of the Sabbath was full moon, a monthly rather than weekly event.
  • Also in attendance, the one and only Henry Rollins, resplendent in "Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer" t-shirt, a marvelous conversationalist since Mr. Rollins currently hosts a show at KCRW-FM, we talk DJs: Sunset Strip impresario and godhead music man Rodney Bingenheimer, as well as the multitalented Steve "Jonesy" Jones. Gregory Weinkauf: William Shatner Salutes The Captains
  • The command to keep the Jewish Sabbath could then be taken metaphorically to refer to any day of rest, and because of the history and customs of this country, that day is Sunday, the Christian sabbath.
  • Although he happily watched me light the sabbath candles and even attended synagogue once, he was never going to be a part of the religious life I was constructing for myself.
  • Although he is a Sabbath walker rather than a regular churchgoer, Berry is no stranger to either church or seminary, although he admits to feeling strange in both places.
  • The middle o 'the road cudna haud the can'le to the paidmints for glaur lest Sabbath. My Man Sandy
  • Also, a hearty "Buon' compleanno!" to Marcello Fondato, the screenwriter of Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH (I tre volti della paura, 1963) and BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (Sei donne per l'assassino, 1964) and many other films, who turns 84 today. The First Doctor's 100th
  • Which is whether or not there's a god, I believe there's something to the idea of sacredness and that the Sabbath can be sacred and rituals can be sacred. CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2007
  • Then, we embodying the generosity and engagement that pulsates at the heart of Jewish tradition, this day will truly be a portal to a Shabbat LaShem, a Sabbath of the Lord, and we will be living the kind of covenanted community that can ennoble humanity and all creation. Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Possessing And Releasing
  • Thousands of neo-Nazis held a rally, marching near a synagogue on the Jewish sabbath.
  • The manner in which Sabbatarians emphasize the phrase “My Sabbath,” and “My holy day,” is well calculated to mislead the unsuspecting, but those who are schooled in biblical literature will regard it as mere _rant_, _cheap theology_, _mere display_! The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880
  • The people in this district keep the Sabbath.
  • But when he had spoken awhile of some sacred and mystical numbers, as three for the Trinity, three for the heavenly Hierarchy, seven for the Sabbath, and seven times seven for a Jubilee; and lastly, -- seven times nine for the grand climacterical year; she, perceiving whereto it tended, began to be troubled with it. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
  • Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary -- This precept is frequently repeated along with the prohibition of idolatrous practices, and here it stands closely connected with the superstitions forbidden in the previous verses. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • But Sabbath connects us to a God who loves us even in those hours when we feel unaccomplished. Preachers of the Future: Three Sermons From Young Christians
  • When my parents asked me the reason of my nonattendance, I refused to answer them; and at length they became enraged at what they termed my obstinacy, and insisted that I should not fail to attend church on the following Sabbath. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston
  • Fifteenth and sixteenth verses gives them a fifty day's Sabbath; twenty-fourth verse says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a _Sabbath_, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the Commandment
  • Furthermore, in the Exodus 20: 11 passage, Moses speaks of the seventh day ( "yom") to be observed every week as the Sabbath, and in the same breath says this is because everything was created in six yoms with God resting on the seventh. Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy?
  • The ancient Israelites celebrated the sabbath as a day of solemn rest but as a festive occasion as well.
  • He ordered the Temple in Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Greek gods and forbade the practice of circumcision, kashrut, and observance of the Sabbath.
  • Instead, the Sabbath is the seventh and final act of creation, the culmination of Creation - the point of it all.
  • I must be permitted to register clearly the general conviction that if black magic, sorcery, and the Sabbath up to date had been merely revived demonomania, had been merely concerned with the black paternoster, the black mass, or even with transcendental sensualism and the ordeal of the pastos, the Roman hierarchy would not have taken action as it has, nor would the witnesses concerning these things have been welcomed with open arms; as a fact, no interest whatsoever is manifested in the doings of diabolists who operate apart from Masonry. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
  • But not to worry, here's the great Waylon Jennings in barnstorming form to make up for it all and get your sabbath off to a braw and brawlin 'start. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
  • It's like Alice Cooper channelling Ray Charles in Elton John's living room with Black Sabbath at the mixing desk.
  • He saith unto them, 'Let me go now and become a penitent,' But they say, 'O thou foolishest of men, dost thou not know that this world in which thou art is like the sabbath, and the world out of which thou camest is like the evening of the sabbath? From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • On a Sabbath Jesus and His disciples were walking through a field.
  • Synagogues began… to appoint official precentors, part of whose duty it was to compose poetical additions to the liturgy on special Sabbaths and festivals.
  • Nine artists - ranging from electronic acts, folkies and experimental rockers - gather on this album to pay tribute to Black Sabbath.
  • See both families celebrate the Sabbath eve, one with their entire group and the other at home.
  • More than two hundred years after this report the small, but continuing, United Society of Shakers lives, works and witnesses its faith together in Sabbathday Lake, Maine.
  • After the Sabbath, we would wander off to the fields and have a feast with fish cooked on the spit, Iraqi pita and arak .
  • ‘Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy’ is not something we can blow off, according to the Deuteronomist.
  • It should seem that, by some kind of enchantments, they had thrown him into a delirium so far, that he had forgot both himself and the sabbath-day. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • His most recent album is best described by Albini himself: ‘Nick Drake fronting Black Sabbath, if Black Sabbath played only the good parts of their songs’. Quite!
  • It was considered a sin to work or play on the Sabbath.
  • To the most religious people in the world at that time God said: Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies.
  • And when evening was now come (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath), Joseph of Arimathea, a noble counsellor, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. Sarx
  • Orthodox Jews should be able to observe the Saturday sabbath and not be forced to have their hair cut.
  • It was considered a sin to work or play on the Sabbath.
  • What I seek most is God alone, the God discovered in sabbath emptiness and silence, the God who cannot be added to a grocery list of other happenings and thrills, who cannot be managed or comprehended, who can only be loved.
  • Every week religious Jews observe the Sabbath, the Jewish holy day, and keep its laws and customs.
  • Anno 1270, at [6602] Magdeburg in Germany, a Jew fell into a privy upon a Saturday, and without help could not possibly get out; he called to his fellows for succour, but they denied it, because it was their Sabbath, non licebat opus manuum exercere; the bishop hearing of it, the next day forbade him to be pulled out, because it was our Sunday. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Free time not just through the ancient practice of the Sabbath but also through new ways, appropriate to an industrial/informational economy, of pausing from overwork and overstress.
  • He produced some altarpieces, but his main speciality was in small cabinet pictures with historical, mythological, or allegorical themes as well as genre and fantastical scenes, such as the witches' sabbath.
  • After all, the author of "Portnoy's Complaint" and "Sabbath's Theater" has made a literary career out of fudging the line between his life and his fiction, writing endlessly aborn misogynistic protagonists teasingly named Philip. A Tale Of Exes And Ohs
  • Hate to be a stickler, you two, but the sabbath is actually Saturday, not Sunday. Think Progress » Rep. Steve King and Glenn Beck agree: Voting for health reform on Sunday is ‘an affront to God.’
  • THE SABBATH UNDER CROSSFIRE refutes the common arguments used to negate the continuity and validity of the Sabbath. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Half the time, all Charles needs to do is point the camera: the Institute for Science and Halacha, in Jerusalem, is a mad nest of creaking, puffing, Sabbath-circumventing machines — no commentary required. An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …
  • THIS DAY! after this day was come, God never, that we read of, made mention with delight of the old seventh-day Sabbath more. The Riches of Bunyan
  • And yet, as it was necessary to appoint a certain day, in order that the people might know when they should assemble, the _Christian church_, (not the apostles,) has up appointed Sunday (the Lord's day) for this purpose; and to this change she was the more inclined and willing, that the people might have an example of Christian _liberty_, and might know that _the observance of neither the Sabbath nor any other day is necessary_. American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann
  • [21] As the Jewish sabbath began at six o'clock on Friday evening, and lasted till six on Saturday evening, we may infer it was after the close of its sacred hours (at "eventide") He reached Bethany. Memories of Bethany
  • He will surround your Garden with new edifices and piazzas: though narrowed, it shall be replanted; dizened with hydraulic jets, cannon which the sun fires at noon; things bodily, things spiritual, such as man has not imagined; -- and in the Palais-Royal shall again, and more than ever, be the Sorcerer's Sabbath and Satan-at-Home of our Planet. The French Revolution
  • For now we come to the seventh Psalm, the Psalm for the Sabbath. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
  • Rattler for rattle-snake, pike for turnpike, draw for drawbridge, coon for raccoon, possum for opossum, cuss for customer, cute for acute, squash for askutasquash—these American back-formations are already antique; Sabbaday for Sabbath-day has actually reached the dignity of an archaism, as has the far later chromo for chromolithograph. Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation
  • She said keeping the seventh-day Sabbath was a "stupid notion, " for you can't tell which is the seventh day.
  • The primary object of the sabbath is holiness, not merely rest: "Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Help me to rest in you on your Sabbath, to find peace for my soul, refreshment for my spirit and new life for my flesh.
  • And a child that's born on the Sabbath day. 
  • The market was bustling with shoppers stocking up on supplies prior to the Sabbath.
  • I thank the Lord that I was able to fulfil all my duties while on board the barque, that is, to preach once on the Sabbath, hold prayers every morning and evening, and say grace at every meal. The Looking-Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels, and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman; Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1812 to 1854, and Including His Visit to Western Africa
  • From new moon to new moon, and from sabbath to sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, says the LORD.
  • Sunday is the Lord's Day, the Christian sabbath on which we rest from our labors and in Christ and refresh ourselves in worship.
  • Nor are the sabbath candles in a Jewish household lit by a rabbi - unless she happens to be the leader of a synagogue that ordains women.
  • After a while I got one of the students to write a publishment, and sent it to the Rev.Mr. M.; he did not read it the next Sabbath, as was customary, and I went to see him. Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time
  • The public dinner was already over, being Sabbath; but the proprietor of our hotel, a worthy Quaker named Potter, got us a very comfortable meal at five o'clock, according to our wishes: meantime we rid ourselves of the accumulated dust of two days, and were comfortably established in out-quarters, the hotel being full. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
  • The jubilee is a celebration of restoring things to their proper owners, a Shabbat LaShem, a Sabbath of the Lord's, because God's vision is a broad, beautiful and reliable vision: We do not have to possess to be worthy. Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Possessing And Releasing
  • Jew would rather die than labor on the sabbath; the Persian would endure suffocation, before he would blow the fire with his breath; the Indian places supreme perfection in besmearing himself with cow-dung, and pronouncing mysteriously the word Aum; * the Mussulman believes he has expiated everything in washing his head and arms; and disputes, sword in hand, whether the ablution should commence at the elbow, or finger ends; ** the Christian would think himself damned, if he ate flesh instead of milk or butter. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
  • They would not put off the funeral till the sabbath day, because the sabbath is to be a day of holy rest and joy, with which the business and sorrow of a funeral do not well agree. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • During the 1650s, English Puritans attempted to replace the irregular festival calendar with the weekly and subdued Sabbath rest.
  • Suppose this point then settled, for anything would be remarkable and highly rememberable which comes near to a common familiar fraction of so vast a period in human affairs as a millennium [a term consecrated to our Christian ears, (1) by its use in the Apocalypse; (2) by its symbolic use in representing the long Sabbath of rest from sin and misery, and finally (3) even to the profane ear by the fact of its being the largest period which we employ in our historical estimates]. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
  • Likewise, the Christian practice of keeping sabbath provides the time we need to break bread together - and the joyful breaking of bread at home and in worship helps us to keep sabbath.
  • Coming with a party of gentlemanly fellows slowly rowing up the Thames and humming some passionate recitative from an opera, he alone could recall the charmful stillness of a Scotch Sabbath, the worshiping crowds, and the evening psalm ascending from so many thousand hearthstones: Winter Evening Tales
  • The speaker advocated a less austere observance of the sabbath.
  • `She's going to Rabbi Winter's synagogue for Sabbath services. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
  • Exodus 35: 2 clearly says working on the Sabbath is a mortal sin. Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death.
  • A man of irreproachable personal piety who nevertheless has no objection to his neighbors’ boozing on the Sabbath or fornicating in haylofts is not a Puritan.
  • In this major proposition the minor, of the seventh-day Sabbath, is involved. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880
  • The Czar's officers take taxes, we must pay more for our kosher meat, and for the candles for Sabbath, we must pay to the funeral society, pay to the officers of the kahal, and for what do we not pay? An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
  • It was considered a sin to work or play on the Sabbath.
  • “Quumque Hierosolymam accessisset, et ibidem aliquandiu mansisset, pontificis filiam ducere in animum induxisse, et eam ob rem proselytum factum, atque circumcisum esse; postea quod virginem eam non accepisset, succensuisse, et adversus circumcisionem, ac sabbathum totamque legem scripsisse.” A Philosophical Dictionary
  • According to the Law of Moses, faithful Jews were expected to keep the Sabbath sacred as a day of rest.
  • And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and fasted all the days of her life, except the sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel.
  • We had got the little Sabbath-school room painted and papered, and the cushions of the main room new covered, and we had engaged to have it frescoed, but the frescoer had turned out to be a perfect fraud, and, of all the lookin 'things, that meetin' house wuz about the worst. Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete
  • The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath. Ulysses
  • And his dress, in her opinion, was enough to frighten a hodman, of a scavenger of the roads, instead of the decent suit of kersey, or of Sabbath doeskins, such as had won the respect and reverence of his fellow-townsmen. Lorna Doone
  • The Middle Ages, more than any other period, are rich in instances of that intimate blending of the comic and the horrible which we call the grotesque; the witches 'Sabbath, the hoofed and horned devil, the hideous figures of Dante's hell; the A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • Today, new businesses could sell tofu, miso, felafel, soy burgers, and vegetarian cholent (Sabbath hot dish).
  • In other words, doing justice and keeping sabbath are not only laws to be obeyed but gospel promises into which we are to live.
  • But inasmuch as the recurrence of the _Sabbath-day_ was what constituted _a week_; in other words, since the essential feature of a week, as a Jewish division of time, was the recurrence of the Jewish day of rest; — τὸ σάββατον or τὰ σάββατα, the Hebrew name for _the day of rest_, became transferred to _the week_. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
  • Come hear what his Reverence rises to say, in his painted pulpit, this calm Sabbath day.
  • But a sabbatical a word derived from the word "sabbath," for rest can have enormous long-term benefits if you have the determination to do it. How To Take A Sabbatical From Work
  • This being done, we proceed unto the communion, if any communicants be to receive the Eucharist; if not, we read the Decalogue, Epistle, and Gospel, with the Nicene Creed (of some in derision called the “dry communion”), and then proceed unto an homily or sermon, which hath a psalm before and after it, and finally unto the baptism of such infants as on every Sabbath day (if occasion so require) are brought unto the churches; and thus is the forenoon bestowed. Of the Ancient and Present Estate of the Church of England. Chapter V. [1577, Book II., Chapter 5; 1585, Book II., Chapter 1
  • They met in their cities on the Sabbath to commune with him.
  • Sabbath-hallowing is intended as a symbol of holiness in general (Eze 20: 12); therefore much stress is laid on it; the Jews 'gross impiety is manifested in their setting Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Bozo The Neoclown says: apparently, these tards know about as much about religion as they do how to govern properly. according to the bible the sabbath is from friday sundown to saturday Think Progress » Rep. Steve King and Glenn Beck agree: Voting for health reform on Sunday is ‘an affront to God.’
  • Jews have always danced with the Torah scrolls in processionals on the holiday of Simhat Torah, and there are movement processionals on other holidays, as well as during the weekly Sabbath services. Dance Performance in the United States.
  • Keeping the Sabbath was originally one of the Ten Commandments because it kept aside time to honour the Creator.
  • We called them home and together we all sat frozen, unbelieving, shocked and devastated for the rest of the Sabbath.
  • To sum up the whole in a word: to keep the Sabbath, to worship God in publick. to make a publick profession of religion, to be baptized, to com - memorate the death of Chiist, to form into a church or religious society, and to exercise a proper watch and discipline over one another, are the principal positive duties enjoined upon christians under the gospel dis - pensation. Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice
  • They sowed much (v. 6), kept a great deal of ground in tillage, which, they might expect, would turn to a better advantage than usual, because their land had long lain fallow and had enjoyed its sabbaths. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • Christian Sabbath, nor "approves the creed" of any orthodox denomination, to be lecturing a numerous body of Clergymen, as to what they ought or ought not to do, it is the culmination of all that is called effrontery! Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors
  • She said keeping the seventh-day Sabbath was a "stupid notion, " for you can't tell which is the seventh day.
  • Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the _Sabbath_ throughout their generations for a _perpetual covenant_; it is a SIGN between me and the children of Israel _forever_. The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign 1847 edition
  • In die porrò Sabbathi sancti ad stationem fuimus vocati, et exiuit ad nos procurator Bathy prædictus, dicens ex parte ipsius, quòd ad Imperatorem Cuyne in terram ipsorum iremus, retentis quibusdam ex nostris sub hac specie, quòd vellent eos remittere ad Dominum Papam, quibus et literas dedimus de omnibus factis nostris, quas deferrent eidem. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
  • Critics and fans are used to trawling for innovation or novelty - in the case of Black Sabbath, though, their genuine sonic ­innovation was only half the story. Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
  • On the Sabbath's eve the body was taken down, as the Law required, and was buried.
  • Just as the mitzvah of the Hanukkah lights is described as a mitzvah for “a person and his household,” which the man usually performs, women accepted kindling the Sabbath lights as their personal mitzvah. Observance of Mitzvot: Custom and Halakhah.
  • Fifteenth and sixteenth verses give them a fifty day's Sabbath; twenty-fourth verse says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a _Sabbath_, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign 1847 edition
  • The first part, _knowing the terrors of the Lord, we persuade men_; and when he perceived, at this juncture, a separation (at least for a time); the Sabbath before his compearance, he chose the next words of that text, _but we are made manifest unto God_: extraordinary power and singular movings of the affections accompanied that parting sermon. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
  • Now, if this be allowed by yourselves, how unreasonable are you, who are angry with me because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day!" emoi cholate. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • A ramped hallway containing a lending library and a tiny gift shop adjoins the school building to the temple, and opens into a foyer where the kiddush (a ceremonial blessing of wine and challah bread) and Shabbat Oneg (a Sabbath wine and cheese reception) are held after Friday night services. American Grace
  • The hum of gnats arose, the bat flew in circling whirls over the tents, horns sounded from all quarters, the sun had set, the Sabbath had commenced. Chapter 16 - Part VII
  • The feast of Trumpets was a holy Sabbath on the first day of the seventh month of Tishri (October).
  • His career rebirth following his unceremonious ousting from the legendary Black Sabbath was nothing short of remarkable.
  • There is absolutely no evidence that the Bible, or its condemnations of beard-trimming, moneylending, working on the sabbath, fortunetelling, etc., have any cosmic truth beyond the prejudices of a primitive people who wrote some stuff down a couple of thousand years ago. Cathedral of Hope in Dallas says it will host 'gay Jesus' play | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • Havdalah marks what is called a "liminal moment," a boundary between the sacredness of the Sabbath and the ordinary days of the week. Rabbi Lawrence Troster: The Spice-Box Of Earth: Remembering Where We Come From
  • Sabbath afternoon at his great-grandmother's house, the highlight of the week for the family. OUT OF THE ASHES
  • Earlier he had watched her draw the heavy damask drapes in the dining room, cover her head with a kerchief, and light the Sabbath candles, uttering the familiar prayer in a tone of rote and reverence.
  • Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath.
  • Planning takes a certain mindset, a kind of discipline. It is not unlike sabbath time, which we need to replenish our souls, our relationships, our bodies, and our imaginations.
  • Probably best known as producer, creator, songwriter, manager and theorist for many of the most important bands and musical trends of the last 25 years: Blue Oyster Cult, Clash, Black Sabbath, Dictators, Pavlov's Dog, Dream Syndicate, he's also a relentless brainstormer of the ever-tightening embrace of Music by Technology and Technology by Music. Howie Klein: Rock Music Legend Sandy Pearlman On The Passing Of Feminine Culture Power Source, Ellie Greenwich
  • I wonder what Dr. Colin would say if he found me yoking a horse to save a three miles Sabbath daunder to the kirk. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
  • – - Exodus 35: 2 clearly says working on the Sabbath is a mortal sin. Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death.
  • Believers, through Christ, enjoy that sabbatism which remains for the people of God (Heb.iv. 9), the beginning of the everlasting sabbath. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • He decided on the Adventists, he said, because they carry out the seventh-day Sabbath teaching. Anti-abortion protests end in Adventist church member’s ouster
  • Overeaten, overdrunken, overexcited, overextravagant, in all ways figures of incontinence, these noisy Londoners made their way homeward, pursued by the advancing gray light of a Sabbath dawn in midsummer. The Message
  • The profanation of the sabbath is a sin for which God has often contended with a people by fire. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • [Mark’s] ‘Now when [JESUS] was risen’ to Matthew’s ‘in the end of the sabbath,’ (for _then_ we believe Him to have _risen_;) and all that comes after, expressive as it is of a different notion, we connect with what follows. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
  • But in which they bound by the notion of a sabbatism: that is, as the same Gloss speaks, 'The bringing in some food from without the limits of the sabbath.' From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • Remember the most fitting epigram on a hearty Sabbath dinner of cholent, first spoken by the brother of my grandfather's second wife: ‘That was delicious.’
  • But there are some who pray the Sabbath prayers and recite the Kiddush and then go desecrate the Sabbath by doing work that is forbidden by the Torah and by rabbinic enactment.
  • The theology of Exodus is wholly theocentric and, moreover, it is creation-oriented; the Sabbath commandment fits that theological pattern.
  • Satan, working through unconsecrated leaders of the church, tampered with the fourth commandment also, and essayed to set aside the ancient sabbath.
  • I'm not in principle a dedicated, old-style sabbatarian, but there are moments when I fully understand what that is about in its most positive sense -- and many of those moments happen when I'm enjoying a Sabbath eve meal with Jewish friends, when I realize just what it is to have twenty-four hours experienced as sheer gift and grace, to be welcomed like a bride. An address by the Archbishop of Canterbury given to a meeting of the Alcuin Club at Lambeth Palace
  • And when evening was now come (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath), The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision
  • I'm choosing this example because it is one I face daily, often twice daily, thrice on the Sabbath.
  • Moreover, some people believe the sabbath is on Saturday so they would lose the entire weekend if not allowed to hunt on Sunday. On Sunday Bowhunting
  • Sabbath candles are lit and there are Sabbath blessings, prayers, songs and readings.
  • Which is whether or not there's a God, I believe there's something to the idea of sacredness and that the Sabbath can be sacred and rituals can be sacred. CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2007
  • So far, most of the discussion of Lieberman's Jewishness has focused on a particular religious practice: sabbath observance.
  • The point is, hunger and the desire to assuage it had little, if anything, to do with honoring or dishonoring God on the Sabbath.
  • The seventh-day Sabbath was not given to the Gentile world. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880
  • And on top of it, the Adventists are claiming that the new date is on their Sabbath, because Junkanoo was tied in with the New Year's Day parade, and the two events were staggered.
  • I can not see that the seventh-day Sabbath, as a sign upon a The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880
  • Third , the rest day is the Sabbath of Judaism, comes from the bible.
  • The various portions of the Sabbath liturgy such as readings, blessings, and Torah interpretation—called “honors”—have been apportioned by sign-up on a clipboard that Naomi refers to as the service unfolds. American Grace
  • For now we come to the seventh Psalm, the Psalm for the Sabbath. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
  • Not once in the New Testament are we told to keep the Sabbath.
  • Under the Law of Moses death to the Sabbath breakers. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist:
  • Brioche seems a bit metropolitan for crofting folk — not to mention working on the sabbath. Times, Sunday Times
  • But on the opening of the busy week, yes, before we had closed our eyes in slumber on the Sabbath night, still more glorious tidings had come to us, and the joyous messages increased as each day brought us nearer to this day of blessed rest. The Martyr to Liberty
  • It shows a young musician who, in a series of opium-induced dreams, pursues his unattainable Beloved or idée fixe through a ballroom, an idyllic landscape, a prison, and a witches' sabbath where she appears hideously transformed.
  • The word Sabbath comes from the Hebrew shabat, meaning to rest, to cease from work. THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD
  • I have a class at the Mission Sabbath Schule, ye see, an 'I was genna hae them at a cup o' tea on Setarday, an 'I thocht o' gien them a bit glisk o 'the magic lantern. My Man Sandy
  • His conduct was censured by the church, and he was for a time deprived of partaking in the communion, for "absenting himself from the public services of the Sabbath;" but in a few weeks the unhouselled deacon was forgiven, and never attempted to "line" again. Sabbath in Puritan New England
  • Saturday is the Jewish sabbath, whereas for Muslims the holiest day of the week is Friday.
  • Why was there controversy about observing the Jewish Sabbath among Jewish and Gentile Christians in the church at Colossae?
  • Would you pull an ass out of a pit on the sabbath?
  • From time to time, he stopped and, after a brief pause, continued his barbed tirade against the desecrators of the Sabbath.
  • Fairford that the next day was the honourable Sabbath, he became extremely excursive in an attempt to exhort him to keep it holy. Redgauntlet
  • Sabbath afternoon at his great-grandmother's house, the highlight of the week for the family. OUT OF THE ASHES

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