The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-07-03
WORK ON THE sAssATH.
International Sunday School Lesson for
July @, 1890.


TIME November. December, A. ID. 20. Dur.
ing Jesus last journey from Gallilec TO Jcrusa-
lem.
PIAcE--Somewhere in Pcrea beyond Jordan.
JEsUs-About thirty-three years old; draw
ing near to the close Of His ministry.
RULERs- -Tiberius Cesar, Emperor Of Rome
(sixteenth year,; Pontius Pilatc, Governor Of
Judea fourth ycar); Herod Antipas. Governor
q Galltlec and Perea tthir:y.thtrd ycar).
CORRESPONDING AccoUNrs-O) Jesus at-
tending synagogue on tho Sabbath at Caper.
pcrnaum, April I'D % MARK 1:2D. t2) Pluck.
ing ears OF corn on the Sabbath nnd healing
man with q witheped hand on the Sabbath,
early summer o. AID. 20 luke 6:tID. tO
Jesus healing man with the dropsy on the
Sabbath, December AID. 90 (Lukc 1910.
INTRoDucrIoS--In our last regular
lesson, Jesus was teaching His disciples
lessons of trust in God. and the privil-
ege Of laying up treasures In Heaven,
taking for His text the man who inter.
rupted His preaching in order to obtain
His help in regaining His inheritance
(Les. XI.). This. together with much
that is recorded in Luke up to chapter
10, took. place in Perea. 1t is not
likely that Jesus had ever before given
30 much time to this region.
ExpLANATORY Jesus at Church
on the Sabbath. 10. And He tods
teaching in one Of tile synaGogues: as was
His custom. Synagogue means "a place
of assembling together" and corre-
spends to church" in our day. In the
New Testament times they had been
multiplied to such an extent that near
ly every town and village seems TO have
had one or more synagogues. And the
rabSins say that there were more than
four hundred and fifty in Jerusalem.
Schools and colleges were often con-
nected with them. They were oenters
0Rreligious and intellectual life.
ii. Jesus performs marvellous cure
| on the Sabbath.-Vcrs. ll.13. II. And
behold, there Hds. in the synagogue, the
place where the suffering. the heavy
laden, the weary, tho simple, the rest
less, should go in order to be uplifted
and aided by fellow-worship to re-
ceive the word Of God through the lips
and heart of the preacher. A roman
uhica had spirit Of infrmfty. Liter
ally, of weakness, feebleness Of health,
sickness. II. And srhen Jesus sac her,
He called her TO Him. The Lord it is to
be noticed, does not wait to be en-
treated, but, seeing her miserable case,
at once, without asking respecting her
faith, commences the work of healing.
| And said unto her: Woman, thou art
loosed (unchained, set frec) from thine IN
fsmity: as from the chains of bondage.
The Greek tense, the perfect, expresses
the immediateness and the permanence
of the cure" 13. and lie hid His hands
on her. And she eds mGds straight.
Being loosed from the bonds that held
her, she was able to stand upright.
and glorited God: claiming nothing as q
right, but acknowledging the healing
as the gift of God through His Son.
III. The Accusation of Sabbath Bre ak
ing.-Ver. Il. And tie ruler Of the syna-
apgue. The president of the college of
elders, who answered in some respects
to the pastor of modern church, but
was more an executive officer and less a
teacher An@oe,rd. in response to what
had just occurred. Wan Indignation
With strong and indignant feeling
against Jesus, because He had set al
defiance their ecclesiastical regulation
and the common teaching of the syna
gogue as to the Sabbath. Because tia
Jesus had he1led on tie !Sdbbath day. The
malignity and folly of this man seems
almost incredible. Ind said unto tn
people. He has neither the courage
to address Jesus himself, nor the
candor to address the poor healed
woman, but breaches at thom both by
rcbuking the multitude, who had M
concern in the action at all. There ar
sir days IN aohich men oaght to tcork. True
but there had been no stroke of work
no one had even come to the place for tht
purpose of being bodily saved. A wore
spoken, the stretching out of hand,
Strengthening of herse If upon the par
; Of tho woman--that was all. In then
therefore come and be heaAed, and not on tn
Sabbath day. AS If healing were unsab
batical work. The Jews had overloaded
the Sabbath law with all manner of rule.
t and regulations.
! ~. The True Keeping of the sab
bath.-Vers 1917. Is. Th0u hypOcrae
The true reading is plural, as in Re
vision. Ye hypocrites-this man was
but representative of class. Dot
not each one Of you on the Sabbath loose III
. or, etc. Do necessary labor for brute
beasts that they may have comfort and
help. Such labors were not what
is meant by work" in the
Q fourth commandment And ever
: the scribes so understood it
: IS. And ought not Mis acomaa. Her,
!, follow three contrasts: (D Being
4 daughter Of Abraham: one of the Gov
, enant people of God who ordained tn
|, Sabbath, and therefore Of vastly NOR
Importance than the cattle. (2) IVhor
: Satan hath bound: under the power o
B one who would iniure her to the utmost
! Another contrast with the kindly mas
!. ter of the cattle. (3) Eighteen gears:
4 terrible affection, in contrast with tn
y ordinary thirst of their cattle. BE loose
: from this bond on tie Sabbath day. TIL
!, argument was complete. Every reaso
! for their own action had tenfold force a
a | annlied To what ,Jesus had dome II