Geremia 17:22

22 e non traete fuor delle vostre case alcun carico, nè fate opera alcuna nei giorno del sabato; ma santificate il giorno del sabato, come io comandai a’ padri vostri.

Geremia 17:22 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 17:22

Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the
sabbath day
Not of dirt and soil only, as some restrain the sense; but of any ware or merchandise, in order to be sold in the city or elsewhere: neither do ye any work;
any servile work, any kind of manufacture, either within doors or without; or exercise any kind of trade, or barter and merchandise, or do any sort of worldly business; nothing but what was of mere necessity, for the preservation of life; see ( Exodus 20:10 ) ; but hallow ye the sabbath day;
or, "sanctify it" ^F2; by separating it from all worldly business, and devoting it to the worship of God in public and private, spending it wholly in acts of religion and piety: as I commanded your fathers;
not Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; but those that came out of Egypt, to whom, and to their posterity after them, this commandment was enjoined, ( Exodus 20:8-10 ) ( 31:13-17 ) ; so that this was not a novel injunction, but what was commanded from the beginning of their civil and church state; from the time of their coming out of Egypt, and becoming a separate people and nation, under a theocracy, or the government of God himself; being chosen and set apart to be a special, peculiar, and holy people to himself, of which the sanctification of the sabbath was a sign; and was to be observed unto the Messiah's coming, the sum and substance of it, ( Colossians 2:16 Colossians 2:17 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 (Mtvdq) "sanctificate", Cocceius, Schmidt.

Geremia 17:22 In-Context

20 Ascoltate la parola del Signore, re di Giuda, e tutto Giuda, e voi, tutti gli abitanti di Gerusalemme, ch’entrate per queste porte.

21 Così ha detto il Signore: Guardatevi, sopra le anime vostre, di portare alcun carico, nè di farlo passare per le porte di Gerusalemme, nel giorno del sabato;

22 e non traete fuor delle vostre case alcun carico, nè fate opera alcuna nei giorno del sabato; ma santificate il giorno del sabato, come io comandai a’ padri vostri.

23 Ma essi non ascoltarono, e non porsero il loro orecchio; anzi indurarono il lor collo per non ascoltare, e per non ricever correzione.

24 Ed avverrà, se pur mi ascoltate, dice il Signore, per non fare entrare alcun carico per le porte di questa città nel giorno del sabato, e per santificare il giorno del sabato, per non fare in esso alcun lavoro;