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Lev_23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work [therein]: it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
Ver. 3. Ye shall do no work therein.] Save only works of piety, charity, and necessity. These are allowed by our Saviour. {Mar_2:23-28; Mar_3:4} The Jews superstitiously hold, {a} that it is not lawful for a blind man to lean upon a staff on a Sabbath day, as the lame may: that if a flea bite a man on that day, he may take it, but not kill it. That if a thorn prick him in the foot on that day, he may not pull it out. That a tailor may not carry a needle, much less a sword; that a man may not spet, {b} or be taken out of a jakes, as that Jew of Tewkesbury, who said,
“ Sabbata santa colo, de stercore {c} surgere nolo. ”
Whereunto the Earl of Gloucester replied,
“"Sabbata nostra quidem (Solomon) celebrabis ibidem." ”
“(Sir, reverence {d} of the Sabbath keeps me here:
And you, sir, reverence {e} shall our Sabbath there.)”
In all your dwellings.] Where you are to sanctify this rest, and to repair to your synagogues. {Act_15:21}
{a} Ranulph., lib. vii. cap. 37.
{b} [?Spit.]
{c} [A play upon the double meaning of the word stercus. See Ainsworth’s Dictionary.]
{d} Ibid.
{e} Idid.