Sabbath in Scotland (Skene, Celtic Scotland, 1877, vol. 2)

Text: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 20:8-11

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[...] They were wont to neglect the due observance of the Lord's day, prosecuting their worldly labours on that as on other days, which she [Margaret of Scotland] likewise showed, by both argument and authority, was unlawful. [...]

[...] Her [Magaret of Scotland's] next point was that they did not duly reverence the Lord's day, but in this latter instance they seem to have followed a custom of which we find traces in the early Monastic Church of Ireland, by which they held Saturday to be the Sabbath on which they rested from all their labours, and on Sunday on the Lord's day, they celebrated the resurrection by the service in church. Thus Adamnan tells us that St. Columba, on the last Saturday of his life, said to his attendant Diormit, 'This day, in the holy Scriptures, is called the Sabbath, which means rest, and this day is indeed a Sabbath to me, for it is the last day of my present laborious life, and on it I rest after the fatigues of my labours; and this night at midnight, which commenceth the solemn Lord's day, I shall, according to the sayings of Scripture, go the way of our fathers.' There was no want of veneration for the Sunday, though they held that Saturday was properly the Sabbath on which they abstained from work.

Skene, William Forbes, Celtic Scotland: a history of ancient Alban, Edinburgh: David Douglas; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Cambridge: Macmillan and Co.; Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1877, vol. 2 - Church and Culture, pp. 348-350.

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