Ezra & Nehemiah: An excerpt from Dale Ralph Davis's New Commentary

Written on 04/01/2025
Colin Fast

A (Brief) Theology of the Sabbath

By Dale Ralph Davis

From ‘Is Reformation Really Possible? Or: The Ongoing Perils of the Church (Nehemiah 13:4-31) in Ezra & Nehemiah: The Quest for Restoration, Focus on the Bible (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2025), pp 195-97.

A bit about the background and theology of the sabbath. This will likely make some readers angry, others disappointed, and still others thinking there is need for more depth. I realize there are debates about linking the sabbath and ‘the Lord’s Day,’ and that there are some who likely regard the sabbath as more of a ceremonial affair for Israel. However, I cannot escape the fact that the sabbath idea seems written into creation (Gen. 2:1-3) and was a ‘live’ matter even before Sinai (cf. Exod. 16).

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