Isaiah 58:13-14 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight… When do we make the Sabbath an "honourable," glorious day? 1. When we make honourable preparation for it. 2. When we give it honourable entertainment. 3. When we have a precious esteem of every moment of Sabbath time, and are jealous lest any drop of it should run waste. 4. When we have a singular esteem of all the institutions and ordinances of the day. 5. When it is the grief of our souls that we can keep Sabbaths no better, and we strive cordially and conscientiously to keep the next better than we did the last. (T. Case, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: |
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