The Sabbath (4): The Sabbath of Paradise

The matter which was engaging our attention in the closing paragraph of our previous article was the keen delight which the Creator took in the works of His hands. The sacred historian asserts that thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the hosts of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His...