Table of Contents

The Temple: Its Ministry and Services
Alfred Edersheim

Chapter 9
Sabbath in the Temple

• The Law Not a Burden, but a Gift --Meaning and object of the Sabbath
• Later Perversion of the Sabbath --Rabbinical ordinances of Sabbath observance, and their underlying principles
• The Schools of Shammai and Hillel
• Scripture Rules for the Sabbath --'The eve of the Sabbath'--Commencement of the Sabbath, how announced
• The Shewbread --The renewal of the shewbread--When and how it had been prepared
• The Table on the Arch of Titus --The table of shewbread
• The Vessels of the Table --How the bread was arranged upon it
• The Shewbread Itself
• The Mode of Changing --Service of the priests in removing the old and putting on the new shewbread
• The Symbolism of the Shewbread --Meaning of the shewbread
• The Courses on the Sabbath --The Sabbath service in the Temple
• The Sabbatical Year
• Scripture References To It/The 'Prosbul' --Scriptural ordinances--Were debts wholly remitted, or only deferred on Sabbatical years?--The 'Prosbul'
• The Effect Of It
• Rabbinical Perversion of the Sabbatical Year --Rabbinical evasions of the Divine law--Sabbath observance by the Saviour.