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Footnotes
[1]. For further information upon this subject, the reader is referred to “The Three Angels’ Messages” and the “United States in Prophecy,” published at the Review and Herald Office, Battle Creek, Mich.
[2]. Persons desiring to investigate this question still further, by addressing the author of these articles, will receive by mail, without charge, a tract in which he has discussed at length a branch of this subject merely alluded to in this communication.
[3]. “It is not clear that the apostle refers at all to the Sabbath in this place [Col. 2:16], whether Jewish or Christian; his σαββατων, of sabbaths, or weeks, most probably refers to their feasts of weeks.”—A. Clarke, in loco.
[4]. “The days here referred to are doubtless the days of the Jewish festivals.... It is not a fair interpretation of this to suppose that the apostle refers to the Sabbath, properly so called, for this was a part of the decalogue, and was observed by the Saviour himself, and by the apostles also. It is a fair interpretation to apply it to all those days which are not commanded to be kept holy in the Scriptures.”—A. Barnes, in loco.
[5]. As it is not insisted that this translation is a correct one, I shall not turn aside for the purpose of showing, as might easily be done, from the original, that it is not admissible where the rule of strict construction is followed.
[6]. The honoring of the second day here alluded to rests upon the hypothesis that the breaking of bread spoken of in Acts 20:11, answers to the Lord’s supper. It is, however, by no means certain that this was the case, since scholars differ widely in opinion respecting the matter; some holding to the opinion that reference was made to the Lord’s supper, and others to the view that the breaking of bread referred merely to a common meal.
[7]. This point is an important one; and as we are anxious to satisfy the reader that it is well taken, we append the following remarks of Albert Barnes, who—though agreeing with the writer in the Statesman that this passage furnishes proof for Sunday observance—nevertheless frankly concedes, as will be seen, that the construction of the original phrase for “treasuring up,” is such as to admit of the idea that the work was to be done at home. He says: “The phrase in Greek, ‘treasuring up,’ may mean that each one was to put the part which he had designated into the common treasury. This interpretation seems to be demanded by the latter part of the verse. They were to lay it by, and to put it into the common treasury, that there might be no trouble of collecting when he should come. Or, it may, perhaps, mean that they were individually to treasure it up, having designated in their own minds the sum which they could give, and have it in readiness when he should come.”