More Wisdom from Tom Wright today, this time on the Sabbath:

"One of the few things that ancient pagans knew about the Jewish people was that, from the pagans’ point of view, they had a lazy day once a week. From the Jewish point of view, it wasn’t laziness; it was the chance to celebrate time in a different mode. The Sabbath was the day when human time and God’s time met, when the day-to-day succession of tasks and sorrows was set aside and one entered a different sort of time, celebrating the original Sabbath and looking forward to the ultimate one … the Sabbath was the moment during which one sensed the onward movement of history from its first foundations to its ultimate resolution."

Do you celebrate Sabbath as it was intended?

Tom Wright, Simply Jesus (London, 2011), page 134.


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