03-05-2008, 05:48 PM
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From another post but I think it applies since we are discussing the different words for Sabbath in Hebrews. Quote:
Originally Posted by PuritanCovenanter  You guys who are quoting the Colosians and Hebrew versess need to know that there are legitimate discussions and commentaries that support a sabbatarian view. I read an article by Robert P. Martin in the Reformed Baptist Theological review that he spoke on these verses. Here is just a quote.
vl. 1.2 A Sabbath Remains.. The Place of Hebrews 4:9 in the New Testament's Witness to the Lord's Day by Robert P. Martin
(Heb 4:9) There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
In it he notes the Word is used here is σαββατισμός and not κατάπαυσις
(rest).
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σαββατισμός
sabbatismos
This is an obscure term evidently that is used in just a few other places outside of the scriptures but used only once in the New Testament. Robert Martin says, Quote:
"I think that it is of interest that "in each of these places the term [σαββατισμός] denotes the observance or celebration of the Sabbath," i.e., not "a Sabbath rest" as a state that is entered into but "a Sabbath-keeping" as a practice that is observed. This, of course, corresponds to the word's morphology, for the suffix -μός indicates an action and not just a state. see A. T. Robertson, A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in Light of Historical Research (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1934), 151.
Reformed Baptist Theological Review Vl. 1;2 p.5
| Obviously the article consists of the surrounding verses but it is a good read and quotes John Owen who is one of my faves.
And the Colosians verse is tied to an old testament reference. | |