Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Observance of the Sabbath or of a sabbath; a rest; intermission of labor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest.
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Examples
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John between the preceding vision and the following one, implying, on the one hand, the solemn introduction to the eternal sabbatism which is to follow the seventh seal; and, on the other, the silence which continued during the incense-accompanied prayers which usher in the first of the seven trumpets (Re 8: 3-5).
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But in which they bound by the notion of a sabbatism: that is, as the same Gloss speaks, 'The bringing in some food from without the limits of the sabbath.'
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Day (Re 1: 10), breathing into it an air of liberty and love necessarily unknown before, and thus making it the nearest resemblance to the eternal sabbatism.
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The saints enter into peace on this side heaven, and enjoy a present sabbatism.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Believers, through Christ, enjoy that sabbatism which remains for the people of God (Heb.iv. 9), the beginning of the everlasting sabbath.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Solomon's temple, thence to the captivity, and now yet one stage more, its sixth day's journey, and then comes the sabbatism of the Messiah's kingdom.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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A rest in glory, the everlasting sabbatism of heaven, which is the repose and perfection of nature and grace too, where the people of God shall enjoy the end of their faith and the object of all their desires.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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How the sabbath is to be sanctified (v. 13); and, there remaining still a sabbatism for the people of God, this law of the sabbath is still binding to us on our Lord's day.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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A sabbath of sabbatism, so others read it, being typical of that sabbatism or rest, both spiritual and eternal, which remains for the people of God, Heb. iv.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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7 [4: 9] Therefore a sabbatism remains for the people of God.
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