And as the Feast of Pentecost was the 49th day from the offering of the first-fruits on the morrow of the Passover, so the Jubilee was the 49th year from the "morrow" of a sabbatic year; it followed immediately after a sabbatic year.
We find no more mention of the sabbaticyear until the reign of Zedekiah, the last king of Judah.
But loans to foreigners would be necessarily for commercial, not agricultural, purposes, and since commerce was not interdicted in the sabbatic year, interest on loans to foreigners might be exacted.
This would appear to mean that the Jubilee extended over a whole year following a sabbatic year, so that the land lay fallow for two consecutive years.
For practical purposes the sabbatic year therefore ended with the close of the Feast of Tabernacles, when the Law was read before the whole people according to the command of Moses; and it practically began a year earlier.
We have no evidence of the Babylonians securing the adoption of their sabbatic arrangements by the Persians, Greeks and Parthians who successively overcame them.
It may therefore be meant simply to emphasize the prohibition to sow and reap in the sabbatic year immediately preceding the Jubilee.
From all this it is clear that the Sabbatic goat must have had some connexion with the East.
That, too, the Sabbatic goat of the Middle Ages was of Eastern and probably Babylonian origin is scarcely to be doubted.
The Sabbatic meetings during the fifteenth century in the wood of Mofflaines, near Arras, had as their centre a goat-demon with a human countenance, and a like fiend was adored in Germany and in Scotland.
There is very little doubt that it is the Baphomet of the knights-templar and the Sabbatic goat of the witchcraft of the Middle Ages.
The Sabbatic goat of the witchcraft of the, 293 MI-LI-SHIK'HU.
Eliphas Levi drew a picture of the Baphomet or Sabbatic goat to accompany one of his occult works, and strangely enough the symbols that he adorns it with are peculiarly Oriental--moreover the sun-disc figures in the drawing.
The rebellious Samaritans were quelled and Alexander gave their land to the Judeans, to whom he further showed his favor by freeing them from taxation during the Sabbatic year.
It was the Sabbatic year, when nothing is sown and the land lies fallow.
This river, which formed the boundary of Jewish conquest in the Hasmonean age, has often been mistaken for the Sabbatic River.
I) has given us a correct account of the rise of the Sabbatic River, which Titus visited on his return from the Jewish war, but Pliny has inverted the facts (H.
The plain near the village of Kefr Kuk is said yearly to be turned into a lake by a torrent which rushes out of its cavern with a roaring noise like that of the Sabbatic River.
A natural syphon from an underground basin accounts for this flow, as also for that of the "Sabbatic river" in North Syria.
As far as can be learned, moreover, the year of release and the Sabbatic year were not regularly or generally observed, while the jubilee year would seem never to have been kept after the Exile.
Their original property was meant to be restored to them in the Sabbatic year, and so their degradation could last only for a very limited time.
In the Decalogue the animals that labour with and for man have their share in the Sabbath rest, and the produce of the fields during the Sabbatic year (Exod.
In all of these alike we have been able to trace thoughts connected with the sabbatic idea, as pointing forward to the final rest, redemption, and consummated restoration, the sabbatism that remaineth to the people of God.
It was thus, by eminence, the sabbatic season of the year.
Practical Objects of the Sabbatic Year and the Jubilee, 502.
Moreover, as falling in the fiftieth year, and therefore on an eighth year of the sabbatic calendar, the jubilee was to the week of years as the Lord's day to the week of days.
Most significant and full of instruction, no less to us than to Israel, was the ordinance that both the sabbatic and the jubilee years should date from the day of Atonement.
And it is in this great, final, and exceedingly glorious restoration of the time of the end that we recognise the ultimate antitype of these sabbatic seasons.
Chalmers, however, under the influence of his strong desire for a sabbatic decennium, kept clear of the ordinary work of the church, excepting the Sustentation Fund and his college lectures.
Chalmers was determined that his seventh decade should not altogether want its sabbatic character.
It is manifest from the slightest consideration of the nature and design of the Sabbatic institution, that Redemption cannot be excluded from our meditations on this holy day, but must hold a very prominent place.
We refer you to our publications, and to the publications of those who have, in common with us, defended the perpetuity of the sabbatic law; and we entreat you to reconsider your ground.
Consequently, our regard for the honor of God, and for the sabbatic institution, induces us to bring this subject in the present form before the Christian public.
How much easier it would be to fasten the claims of the Sabbatic institution upon the consciences of men, if we were satisfied to take the fourth commandment as it reads, and enforce it by "Thus saith the Lord.
But be assured, that there will be an everlasting conflict, till you are brought to acknowledge fully and heartily the claims of the sabbatic law.
But that the great importance of the Sabbatic Institution may be more distinctly felt, let it be blotted out from existence.
Is there any designation of the first day for a sabbatic purpose?
But we proceed to address those of you who regard the sabbatic law as having been nailed to the cross, and consider the first day of the week as an institution entirely new, regulated as to its observance wholly by the New Testament.
Let every thing which has the least semblance of the Sabbatic rest be annihilated.
The fundamental institution of the Sabbatic year had been stultified by the mere legal fiction of the Prosbol.
The Jewish Law enacted a cancelling of all debts in the Sabbatic year on the part of Jews towards their brethren.
She leaned her head against the window, listening to the bees humming in the garden--bees, daring Sunday workers, and even they seemed to toil with a kind of Sabbatic solemnity.
He would have it to enjoy a sabbatic year, and in that year there was to be the evidence of the rich profusion with which He would bless those who held as tenants under Him.
Every seventh day was a sabbatic day; every seventh year was a sabbatic year; and every seven times seven years there was a jubilee.
He was not going to let them starve in His sabbatic year.
This chapter should be well studied for information with regard to the sabbatic year.
This commandment is very sweeping and comprehensive, and the Lord makes it typical of the creative, sabbatic period of time.
It is presumable that most of them were built during the blest sabbatic era that followed the visit of the Redeemer.
In making this revelation the heavenly visitor took the Sabbatic period of 7 years as his standard of time.
We thought that to drive us thither in solitary Sabbatic peace would be fully as good for Charles's mind and morals as to hang all day idle about Marazion; and he seemed to think so himself.
Bethsur was unable to hold out, being short of provisions on account of the sabbatic year.
So little fear had the witches themselves, that before the audience they would sink into the Sabbatic slumber, and affirm on awaking that, even in court, they had enjoyed the blessedness of Satan.
On the 28th, the poison having doubtless done its work, and plunged her into a perfect stupor, or else a kind of Sabbatic frenzy, it was impossible to bring her forth.
On these he makes Christmas carols, which grow ever more and more burlesque, forming a true Sabbatic literature.
Concerning The Sabbatic River Which Titus Saw As He Was Journeying Through Syria; And How The People Of Antioch Came With A Petition To Titus Against The Jews But Were Rejected By Him; As Also Concerning Titus's And Vespasian's Triumph.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sabbatic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
