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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sabbath
		Sabbath was to be a day of joy (Isaiah 57:13) and such it was in practice (cf.
		Sabbath (Judith 8:6) on the contrary, the choicest meals were served to which friends were invited.
		Sabbath is first met with in connection with the fall of the manna (Exodus 16:22 sqq.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13287b.htm (1602 words)

	Sabbath - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Attitude of Jesus.--So far, therefore, as the Sabbath existed for any end outside itself it was an institution to help every Jew to learn the law, and from this point of view it is. regarded by Philo and Josephus, who are accustomed to seek a philosophical justification for the peculiar institutions of their religion.
		Modern criticism of the history of Sabbath observance among the Hebrews has done nothing more than follow out these arguments in detail, and show that the result is in agreement with what is known as to the dates of the several component parts of the Pentateuch.
		This conception of the Sabbath, however, necessarily underwent an important modification when the local sanctuaries were abolished under the "Deuteronomic" reform, and those sacrificial rites and feasts which in Hosea's time formed the essence of every act of religion were limited to the central altar, which most men could visit only at rare intervals.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sabbath (3784 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - SABBATH (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Sabbath is recognized in the account of the gathering of the manna; a double portion was gathered on the previous day, and the extra supply gathered for consumption on the Sabbath, when no manna descended, did not spoil (xvi.
		A comparison between rabbinicial Sabbath legislation and the data of the Bible, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha must establish the fact that the Talmudical conception of what is implied by Sabbath "rest," with the practical determination of what may and what may not be done on that day, is the issue of a long process of development.
		Sabbath afternoon is usually spent by pious Jews in the study of various sacred subjects, each one according to his knowledge and ability.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=13&letter=S (12877 words)

	Sabbath
		The Sabbath is a festive occasion, taking place both in the synagogue and in the private homes.
		The Sabbath is the time for studying the Torah, and reflections on the gift that life is. The theological background for celebrating the Sabbath comes from the Ten Commandments, and the creation of the world (Pentateuch 2, 1-3), where God after 6 days of creating the world, rested on the 7th.
		And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which you will bake to day, and seethe that you will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/sabbath.htm (0 words)

	Sabbath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the New Testament, Jesus declared that the Sabbath was made for man's good (Mark 2:27), and that therefore the son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath (Matthew 12:8, Mark 2:28).
		It is known that Gentile Christians sometimes openly observed the Biblical Sabbath in conjunction with first-day Sunday worship, because the Council of Laodicea [4] around 365 attempted to put a stop to the practice.
		Sabbath ordinances were appealed to, with the idea that only the word of God can bind men's consciences in whether or how they will take a break from work, or to impose an obligation to meet at a particular time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sabbath (5407 words)

	Sabbath (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		Skinner thus describes Meinhold's theory: "He points to the close association of new-moon and Sabbath in nearly all the pre-exilic references (Amos 8:5; Hosea 2:11; Isaiah 1:13; 2 Kings 4:23 f.); and concludes that in early Israel, as in Babylonia, the Sabbath was the full-moon festival and nothing else.
		That the pious in Israel carefully observed the Sabbath is clear from the conduct of the Maccabees and their followers, who at first declined to resist the onslaught made by their enemies on the Sabbath (1 Macc 2:29-38); but necessity drove the faithful to defend themselves against hostile attack on the Sabbath (1 Macc 2:39-41).
		At Sinai, the Sabbath which was instituted at creation, and had been observed during the intervening centuries, was embodied in that formal statement of man's duties usually designated as the "Ten Commandments." It is treated as an institution already well known and the command is, "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy" (Exodus 20:8).
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/7529 (5108 words)

	Lesson Seven of Bible Course
		Leviticus 23 enumerates the Sabbath as one of the appointed feasts of the Lord.
		Sabbath observance was a practice among all Jews, in Palestine as well as in the diaspora.
		Sabbath observance was so important in the Jewish religion that there are statements in Talmudic literature to the effect that Sabbath observance is the equivalent of the Abrahamic Covenant, and that the law of the Sabbath was said to be equal to all the other laws and commandments in the Torah!
	www.intercontinentalcog.org /ICGCC/Lesson_Seven.shtml (12665 words)

	THE WEEKLY SABBATH: SATURDAY OR SUNDAY?
		With all of these references to the observance of the Saturday Sabbath found in the history of the Jewish people, the life of Christ, and the practices of disciples and other followers of Christ, one would naturally assume that Christian churches would have continued with the Jewish Sabbath.
		So tightly linked is Saturday to the Sabbath that in over 100 languages (one source says 160) the name for Saturday is some variation of the word "Sabbath." (English is one exception; Saturday is named after the Roman Pagan god Saturn).
		In Leviticus 23:38, the text emphasizes that the ceremonial Sabbaths are in addition to the "sabbaths of Jehovah" or "Lord's Sabbaths" (the weekly Sabbaths).
	www.religioustolerance.org /sabbath.htm (0 words)

	Scriptural Sabbath
		Some new moon Sabbath observers start by keeping the day the new moon is seen as a Sabbath, some do not but either way at the end of the month there is either a double Sabbath or a Sabbath separated by a day.
		The main Scriptures used to prove the lunar Sabbath are found in 2 Kings 4:23, Isaiah 1:13, Isaiah 66:23, Ezekiel 46:1 and the main Scripture Amos 8:5.
		Since the Sabbath always appear as a weekly feast without connection with the moon, it cannot be derived, as is done by some writers, from the Babylonian feast of the full moon, or fifteenth day of the month, which, moreover, has only doubtful claim to the designation shabattu.
	www.paleotimes.org /articles/scripturalSabbath.htm (1832 words)

	Seventh Day Baptist - Sabbath
		The Sabbath issue between Christ and the Pharisees is never over which day to worship or over whether the Sabbath was still part of God's desire for man. The issue for Christ was the way in which the Sabbath was being kept and the Phariseesí attitude toward the Sabbath.
		Third, "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." At the time of Jesus, the Pharisees had lost the meaning of the Sabbath.
		But because he is Lord of the Sabbath, he can and will bring all of his resourses to bear to empower us and to work our circumstances so that we can keep his day holy.
	www.seventhdaybaptist.org /7DB/Sabbath_EN.asp (2458 words)

	Sabbath - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SABBATH [Sabbath] [Heb.,=repose], in Judaism, last day of the week (Saturday), observed as a rest day for the twenty-five hours commencing with sundown on Friday.
		The Sabbath is intended to be a day of spiritual refreshment and joy.
		The Sabbath versus the new moon: a critique of Heschel's valorization of the Sabbath.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/S/Sabbath.asp (362 words)

	Sabbath - Theopedia
		The first appearance of the Sabbath in the Old Testament is an implicit reference in Genesis 1:14b, where the word translated "seasons" is used as a technical term throughout the Pentateuch in the context of the Israelite cultus, often for "festivals".
		The Sabbath is mentioned more explicitly in Genesis 2:2-3, where God rests on the seventh day from all the work of creating that he had done.
		The most well-known interactions of the Lord Jesus with the Sabbath laws are his Sabbath healings, which inevitably caused controversy with the party of the Pharisees.
	www.theopedia.com /Sabbath (1028 words)

	Sabbath (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		The Sabbath is first mentioned as having been instituted in Paradise, when man was in innocence (Gen.
		The Sabbath, originally instituted for man at his creation, is of permanent and universal obligation.
		The Sabbath was made for man. God made it for men in a certain spiritual state because they needed it.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/sabbath.html (793 words)

	Sabbath at AllExperts
		It is known that Gentile Christians sometimes openly observed the Biblical Sabbath in conjunction with first-day Sunday worship, because the Council of Laodicea [4] around 365 attempted to put a stop to the practice.
		Sabbath ordinances were appealed to, with the idea that only the word of God can bind men's consciences in whether or how they will take a break from work, or to impose an obligation to meet at a particular time.
		According to some Christians there are two main forms of sabbath breaking: to work on the Sabbath, or to skip church.In America, at least, it is common to skip church to watch football, a common form of Sabbath breaking.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sa/sabbath.htm (4708 words)

	Bible Dictionary: Sabbath
		On the Sabbath the daily sacrifices were doubled; the loaves of the shewbread were changed; the people abstained from all manner of work, and it was a day of holy assembly.
		This is no doubt due to the scantiness of the record, for the Sabbath is an eternal principle, and would have existed from the days of Adam, whenever the gospel was on the earth among men.
		In either case, the Sabbath was symbolic of the mighty works of God, i.e., the creation of the earth, the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
	scriptures.lds.org /bds/sabbath (533 words)

	Sabbath - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		"He points to the close association of new-moon and Sabbath in nearly all the pre-exilic references (Amos 8:5; Hosea 2:11; Isaiah 1:13; 2 Kings 4:23); and concludes that in early Israel, as in Babylonia, the Sabbath was the full-moon festival and nothing else.
		That Paul contended for personal freedom in respect of the Sabbath is made quite clear in Colossians 2:16, where he groups together dietary laws, feast days, new moons and sabbaths.
		The Sabbath is coeval with the finishing of creation, and the main facts connected with establishing it are recorded in Genesis 2:2,3.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T7529 (5056 words)

	Sabbath School Bible Study Guides
		The Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guides (also called Sabbath School Lessons) are prepared by the Office of the Adult Bible Study Guide of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
		We are thrilled that the adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guides (Lessons) are available in Czech, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish and the latest addition Romanian, in addition to English.
		The Collegedale Church's "Come and Reason" Sabbath School class, conducted by Dr. Tim Jennings on the campus of Southern Adventist University, discusses the lesson two weeks ahead of the dated lesson and posts its weekly audio discussion in MP3 and Podcast formats.
	www.ssnet.org /qrtrly/qrtrly.html (0 words)

	Keeping Sabbath: Reviving a Christian Practice
		Sabbath crystallizes Torah’s portrait of who God is and what human beings are most fully meant to be.
		Eugene Peterson, a Presbyterian minister, describes the "sabbaths" he and his wife observed every Monday, after their busiest day was over: a drive to the country, a psalm, a silent hike for several hours, a quiet evening at home.
		Sabbath keeping bears a longing that all human beings will have good work, as well as a longing that no one will be required to toil without respite.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=318 (4472 words)

	Sabbath
		The Sabbath is in these inscriptions designated Sabattu, and defined as "a day of rest for the heart" and "a day of completion of labour." The change of the day.
		Violating the sabbath was a serious offense, and the person who worked on the sabbath was to be "cut off from among his people" (Exod.
		The incidents regarding his disciples' plucking ears of grain or his healing on the sabbath were not a digression from the sabbath law, but were rather an indication that Jesus knew the content of the commandment very well.
	mb-soft.com /believe/text/sabbath.htm (1812 words)

	Biblical Holidays Jewish Feasts Reveal Messiah Yeshua -Jesus
		The Sabbath was held in high esteem in both in Jewish circles and in early Christianity.
		The adoption of Sunday observance in place of the Sabbath did not occur in the early Church of Jerusalem by virtue of the authority of Christ or of the Apostles, but rather took place several decades later.
		The Sabbath should be enjoyed as a day of rest, family worship and strengthening relationships and focusing on Christ.
	biblicalholidays.com /sabbath.htm (878 words)

	Church of God International: Sabbath, Feast of Tabernacles, Passover, Bible Sabbath School, Armor of God
		Now that the Sabbath day was over, it was perfectly all right for the women to go to the arduous task for which they had been waiting for these twenty-four hours, for now it was the first day of the week, a common workday, and there was no further requirement to "rest."
		Even as God instituted His annual Sabbaths as a perpetual ordinance between Himself and His people--for so long as a single Israelite remained alive on this earth--so, in like fashion, He ordained that the weekly Sabbath was to be observed throughout the generations of the children of Israel!
		The Sabbath was the great "test commandment" as to whether the people of God would be faithful to His commands or not.
	www.cgi.org /booklets/sabbath.cfm (9236 words)

	Sabbath keeping and the church today, Denver Cheddie (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SDAs believe that the Sabbath was instituted in the Garden of Eden and practiced ever since, but was only made official under the Law.
		In Mark 2:28, according the Adventist teaching, Jesus claimed ownership of the Sabbath (He is Lord of it), thus the Sabbath is the Lord’s Day.
		To their credit the SDAs appeal to Acts 17:2, where Paul went into the synagogue on the Sabbath as was his custom.
	students.eng.fiu.edu /~denver/sabbath1.html (1645 words)

	Black Sabbath
		Black Sabbath was released on Vertigo in the U.K. and Warner Bros. in the U.S. Black Sabbath took a similarly quick and unadulterated approach to the recording of Paranoid, which was also cut in a few days.
		The group wrote and rehearsed the material for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath at a castle in Wales that they claimed was haunted, further fueling their music’s unnerving vibe at a time when the group was testing its own mental and physical limits.
		January 19, 1974: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, the fifth classic heavy-metal album in a row from Black Sabbath, is released in the U.S., two months after being issued in Britain.
	www.rockhall.com /hof/inductee.asp?id=2404 (2426 words)

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