Parsing the Law—How to Keep the Sabbath
May 21, 2019
Alastair Roberts
Within this episode I offer some follow-up thoughts to my discussion of the ritual and the moral Law in my previous episode: https://adversariapodcast.com/2019/05/20/ritual-and-moral-law/. In particular, I discuss how we might keep the Sabbath command today.
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