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Part of the mandate of the Committee for the Revision of the Heidelberg Catechism was that it had to take as basis the German and the Latin texts of 1563 and the Dutch text of 1611. The German text on this point reads: sonderlich am Feiertag. One dictionary defines Feiertag as \\"holiday, festive day.\\" And it says that the German verb feiern means \\"to celebrate, to honour, to praise\\" and \\"to rest from work.\\" Another dictionary says that Feiertag means \\"feast day, day of rest.\\"
Apparently going back to the German text, the Committee chose and proposed \\"feast day.\\" However, the Synod of Cloverdale did not accept this and changed the wording of the revision so that it reads: \\"especially on the day of rest.\\" Thus we have back the old formulation, although without the word \\"Sabbath.\\"
The Sabbath Feast Day or/and Day of Rest ?