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To: Star Traveler

From my understanding.....you are correct. The “Sabbat” or Sabbath is on Saturday.


8 posted on 06/16/2007 10:43:13 PM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: LaineyDee; LiteKeeper; BamaCharm
A number of significant Protestant groups, including the Pilgrim Fathers and the Scots Presbyterians, took over the term "Sabbath" from the OT and applied it to Sunday. You'll find it in the KJV and a number of the earlier English Bibles as well.

The Scots Presbyterians (especially the "Wee Free" variety) were particularly concerned with "Sabbath-keeping" and "Sabbath-breaking". My maternal grandparents were Scots Presbyterians of the rock-ribbed variety.

George MacDonald Fraser (the "Flashman" author) once asked one of his soldiers in the Far East, a Wee Free, how he could bring himself to kill Japanese on the Sabbath. He replied that it was a work of necessity and mercy . . . .

24 posted on 06/17/2007 6:26:27 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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