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Chapter
XIV.—Reply to the Charge of “Galaticism.”
Being, therefore, observers of
“seasons” for these things, and of “days, and months,
and years,”1097
we
Galaticize. Plainly we do, if we are observers of Jewish ceremonies, of
legal solemnities: for those the apostle unteaches,
suppressing the continuance of the Old Testament which has been buried
in Christ, and establishing that of the New. But if there is a
new creation in Christ,1098
our solemnities too
will be bound to be new: else, if the apostle has erased
all devotion absolutely “of seasons, and days, and months,
and years,” why do we celebrate the passover by an annual
rotation in the first month? Why in the fifty
ensuing days do we spend our time in all exultation? Why
do we devote to Stations the fourth and sixth days of the
week, and to fasts the “preparation-day?”1099
Anyhow, you sometimes continue
your Station even over the Sabbath,—a day never to be kept as a
fast except at the passover season, according to a reason elsewhere
given. With us, at all events, every day likewise is
celebrated by an ordinary consecration. And it will not, then,
be, in the eyes of the apostle, the differentiating
principle—distinguishing (as he is doing) “things new
and old”1100
—which will be
ridiculous; but (in this case too) it will be your own unfairness,
while you taunt us with the form of antiquity all the
while you are laying against us the charge of
novelty.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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