The Sabbath was not so much appointed for meditating on the works of creation, as on the work of redemption. It appears from the words of the serpent, and of the woman, that she had not yet tasted any fruit. He fell so soon, that the work of redemption might be the more illustrious, since man could not stand one day without the Mediator's help. That the saving interest in him, and his salvation, is by faith alone, believing the promise with particular application to one's self, and so receiving him, forasmuch as these things are revealed by way of a simple promise. Sacr. in voc.
Nothing can be more agreeable to the scope and content.
No reason can be given of the difference made in this point, but that it pleased Antichrist to canonize these New Testament saints, but not the Old Testament ones. Canonizing is an act or sentence of the Pope, decreeing religious worship and honours to such men or women departed, as he sees meet to confer the honour of saintship on. So the Septuagint expounds it.