Mark 2:27-28 And he said to them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:… Wherever mind and body are taxed and exhausted by toil — and it is meant in the laws of our being that they shall everywhere be employed — there the Sabbath is destined to come as a day of rest. The ship, indeed, will glide along at sea, for its course cannot be arrested; and the Sabbath of the mariner may often be different from that of a dweller in a palace or a cottage, and different from that which the seaman feels that he needs. The sun and the stars will hold on their way, and the grass will grow, and the flower open its petals to the light, and the streams will roll to the ocean; for there is need that the laws of nature should be uniform, and the fibres of plants, and suns, and planets, and streams experience no exhaustion, and He who directs them all "fainteth not, nor is weary;" but man is weary and needs rest. (A. Barnes, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:WEB: He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. |
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