Concept
Biblical Sabbath
Overview
The Sabbath is a weekly day of rest or time of worship given in the Bible as the seventh day. It is observed differently in Judaism and Christianity and informs a similar occasion in several other faiths. Observation and remembrance of Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments ("Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy") considered to be the fourth in Judaism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and most Protestant traditions, and the third in Roman Catholic and Lutheran traditions.
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Possible passages
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This then is the meaning of the Sabbath or the "rest" of God. It is a sanctified day of rest, on which God speaks to or talks with us, and we in turn speak to and talk with him in prayer and by faith. The beasts indeed learn to hear and also to understand the voice of man, as dogs, horses, sheep, oxen; and they are also preserved and fed by man.
Martin Luther, Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1
States what Biblical Sabbath is.
Remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy. [Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor…
Martin Luther, An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
Close in meaning to Biblical Sabbath; the term itself is not named.
But, on the seventh day (_i.e._, the same day repeated seven times, which number is also a perfect one, though for another reason), the rest of God is set forth, and then, too, we first hear of its being hallowed. So that God did not wish to hallow this day by His works, but by His rest, which has no evening, for it is not a creature; so that, being known in one way in the Word of God, and in another in itself, it…
of Hippo Augustine, The City of God, Volume I
The author is tied to Biblical Sabbath in the knowledge graph.
Related ideas
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Washington, D.C.
- Jesus
- Genesis creation narrative
- Gospel of Luke
- Gospel of Matthew
- Gospel of John
- Book of Genesis
- Heaven
- Gospel of Thomas
- Holy Spirit
- Judaism
- Jerusalem
- Ancient Corinth
- Justin Martyr
- Augustine of Hippo
- Babylon
- Heresy
- New Testament
- Nazareth
- Noah
- Old Testament
- Omnipotence
- Lutheranism
Place in the tradition
Part of Deontology.