BIBLE STUDIES ON THE FOR USE BY PASTORS, SABBATH SCHOOLS, YOUNG STUDY, ETC. BY ARTHUR ELWIN MAIN, D. D., L. H. D. Dean, and Professor of Doctrinal and Pastoral Theology SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED THE AMERICAN SABBATH TRACT SOCIETY PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY 1911 Copyright, 1911, by The American Sabbath Tract Society ANDOVER-HARVARD MAR 22 1912 HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL 440,527 To the memory of Abram Herbert Lewis, D. D., LL. D. The passing years witness to the real greatness of his work. He that liveth and believeth on Christ shall never die. In solitude and in the country, what dignity distinguishes the holy time. The old Sabbath, or Seventh Day, white with the religions of unknown thousands of years, when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep, . . . . the cathedral music of history breathes through a psalm to our solitude. -Emerson. God comes and feeds the docile and expectant life and it goes back to the counting-house and the counter, stronger, purer, greater. -Phillips Brooks. Reasons for the Sabbath Beginnings of Hebrew History B. MOSES, THE EXODUS, AND THE LAW Moses and His Work The Sabbath Earlier than Sinai ΙΟ 370 The Sabbath Assembly, and the Holy Bread The Sabbath in Deuteronomy Other Sabbatic Time C. THE GREAT HISTORICAL PERIOD The Sabbath in Chronicles and Kings The Sabbath under Nehemiah 37 D. THE PROPHETS The Sabbath Social and Ethical Righteousness Essential to True Sabbath-keeping The Sabbath in Ezekiel The Sabbath and National Life Summary of Old Testament Teachings 4I 42 ... 44 45 48 |