Tertullian: Christ as Lord of the Sabbath

For although the Creator had forbidden that the manna should be gathered for two days, He yet permitted it on the one occasion only of the day before the Sabbath, in order that the yesterday’s provision of food might free from fasting the feast of the following Sabbath-day. … [Christ] did not directly defend His disciples, but excuses them; He interposes human want, as if deprecating censure; He maintains the […]

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