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  • The sabbath's return; and its leisure's soft chain!

    REPENTANCE A PASTORAL BALLAD 1888

  • Last sabbath's mail brought me another of your very welcome letters, the perusal of which, I assure you, gave me, as it always does, much pleasure.

    Letter from Rufus L. Patterson to Phoebe C. Patterson, May 8, 1849 1849

  • We must do every sabbath day's work in its day, studying to redeem every minute of sabbath time as those that believe it precious; and not thinking to put off one sabbath's work to another, for sufficient to every sabbath is the service thereof.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721

  • When you compare Ironman, one of sabbath's premiere tunes, with any other song from that year there is no denying it was the heavier than anything.

    Worldwide music 2008

  • We see many traces of this in the NT (Paul and the Jewish legend of the moving rock, Paul and the names of the magicians who opposed Moses who are named in Jewish legend, John stating that Cain was born of the devil, which is also Jewish legend; Luke taking for granted that his readers knew the length of "a sabbath's day journey," which was defined in Jewish Halakah.).

    finitum non capax infiniti 2008

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