5. H. C. Leupold. (n. 2), p. 103, explains that
“on the one hand, the verb ‘he sanctified it’(qiddesh), being a Piel stem, has the connotation of a causative.., and on the other hand, it has at the same time a declarative sense: ‘He declared holy or consecrated.’” 6. Nicola Negretti (n. 3), p. 228.
7. Ellen White,
The Story of Patriarchs and Prophets, 1958, p. 313.
8. Samuel Terrien,
The Elusive Presence, 1978, p. 392.
9 It is noteworthy that the Romans used the term
Sabbateion to describe the Jewish
meeting place (synagogue), obviously because such gatherings occurred on the Sabbath. Cf. Flavius Josephus,
Antiquities of the Jews, 16, 6.
10. I. Grunfeld relates a touching episode where the Sabbath helped tormented Jews to forget their misery:
“The train dragged on with human freight. Pressed together like cattle in the crowded trucks, the unfortunate occupants were unable even to move. The atmosphere was stifling. As the Friday afternoon wore on, the Jews and Jewesses in the Nazi transport sank deeper and deeper into their misery. Suddenly an old Jewish woman managed with a great effort to move and open a bundle. Laboriously she drew out—two candlesticks and two challot. She had just prepared them for the Sabbath when she was dragged from her home that morning. They were the only things she had thought worth while taking with her. Soon the Sabbath candles lit up the faces of the tortured Jews and the song of ‘Lekhah Dodi’ transformed the scene. Sabbath with its atmosphere of peace had descended upon them all”(
The Sabbath: A Guide to its Understanding and Observance, 1972, p. 1).
11. Herbert W. Richardson (n. 1), p. 130.
12. Ibid.
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