In a volume to be seen in the British Museum, dated 1545, the following
comment on Dan. 7:25 is attributed to Philipp Melanchthon, the Reformer,
associate of Luther (reproduced with the old English spelling):
"He changeth the tymes and lawes that any of the sixe worke
dayes commanded of God will make them unholy and idle dayes
when he lyste, or of their owne holy dayes abolished make worke
dayes agen, or when they changed ye Saterday into Sondaye....
They have changed God's lawes and turned them into their owne
tradicions to be kept above God's precepts."--_"Exposition of
Daniel the Prophete," Gathered out of Philipp Melanchthon,
Johan Ecolampadius, etc., by George Joye, 1545, p. 119._
This is exactly what the power represented by the little horn was to
assume to do. The commandment of God is plain:
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor,
and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy
God: in it thou shalt not do any work.... For in six days the Lord made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed
it.
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