The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-07-25

tCommunicatedl
10 the Issue Of your paper Of July
20, 1888, your correspondent, Null
forum Unus,' has undertaken to an
swer the question asked by me In your
paper of the 18th Inst, but has shown
his utter inability to answer the Ques-
ton under confederation. The ques-
ton was: IL a person, starting from
a given place at noon Monday and
travels westward as fast as the earth
revolves eastward, 1t will take HIM
hours to make his jour-
ney around the earth, and 1t has been
noon to him ut every point, but when
he arrives ut the place from which he
started he finds 1t to be Tuesday noon
Instead of Monday. -...
NOW, where in his journey does he
change from Monday to IuesdayY'
When your correspondent Is able to
answer this question his progress will
be forward instead Of backward.
Again. we will notice "AIultorum
lUnus'n loose manner Of Interpreting
the laws OF God. He says: six days
shalt thou labor but In the seventh
thou shalt not do any work, is obeyed
both In letter and In spirit by those
who begin their count on Monday 2s
Saturday the seventh day and call 1t
sabbath.
| BY adopting this rule OF interpreta-
tlon. the Mohammedan Friday be-
comes the seventh day to him. as truly
as the Christians Sunday Is the sev-
Ienth day TO him., and Just SO every
day OF the week can be made the sew
enth day. Commencing to count with
Tuesday and you have Monday for the
seventh day, and com mence the count
'Iwith Wednesday ard You have Tues
day for the seventh day. &c.
+! A person adopting such rule Of in
depreciation to explain the fourth
com mandment would find rule of
: Interpretation to justify himself in
. violating the seventh commandment
which says: Thou shalt not commit
adultury," or any OF the other OF the
t.ten commandments. Better let God
rlexplain his own law, and let man bow
a in submission to 1t. 5....
Again, we wish to notice his inter
,-Ipretation OF Pentecost. He says;
+ "Pentecost was counted eighth un
der the old dlspensation." | wonder
III he calls such n statement as that al
"inteliigent reading of the Scrip
" lures" or does he think that is no
Il wrestling Lev. XIII: Is, 81, SO, &c
:. Webster says: ''Pentecost; A solemn
festival of the Jews, so called because
u celebrated on the ilftieth day ate
lie the feast OF the passover" Chamber
a says: "pentecost Greek. Pentecosti
;, ,,ilftieth,) was the name given to tn
lteast among the Jews held on tn
ID 'liftieth' day after the passover"
o. Chambers Enc. vol. 0, page $50
pIJosephus says: when week o
weeks has passed over after this sac
rilice." (referring to the sacrifice o
Inthe Passover), (Which weeks con
= tain forty.nine days.. on the iitttet
y day. which Ia Pentecost." Josephn'
10 Antiuuities OF the Jews, Book Ill.
gchapter 10 Sec 6. All of these wit
,fnesses testify that Pentecost was TIL
- 'iiftieth day" and not the eighth" a
10 your correspondent "Multoruu
lylUnus," would have us believe.
Is Again, would he have us belIev
va that the first day mentioned in Lev. >
70 20. is tho first day OF the weekr An
IN one by turning to this verse can SO
'i.Ithat The first day mentioned IN thi
,.IteXt was the first day OF the seven O
:, THAT feast which was to commence o
u the fifteenth day OF the seventh mont
t'and continue seven days. Again "Mu
lie torum Unus" would have us believ
=, that the pentecost mentioned in Acts
. Tell on the first day of the week, Blu
81 ne will do well to remember that Their
rs are as able scholars who take the posi-
ia ton that, that Pentecost fell on Satul
:, lay that year as there are who CLAN
u-that it came on the Sunday.
to Once more, IN. u" says: Constal
,dItine's civil law was but tardy recol
,,inltion of statute which had been 10
y centuries already law to tho peopl
of God, Will he please give us Il,
book, chapter and page, where thi
IL statute is TO be found? Or Will he sa
liz Is to be found In those chapters
1t the Bible which he has cited?
II SO VIC will quote another passag
which contains just as much u law fC
keeping the first day OF the week a
oithe ones he has mentioned, which wi
I'll be found in Mum. XNII, 81; and
u, says: ''Balaam rose up in the morr
ling, and saddled his ass. and wen
" with the Princess of Moab" Here
e, lust us much a statute for first de-
~. keeping as those passages he cites.
~ =. ]. HERsUM.