The author, in To What End the Sabbath? An Exegetical Study, agrues that the Sabbath was a hummanitarian law. The primary concern of the Sabbath day was rest from labor everyone-rich and poor, master and slave, and even household animals. In additon to rest/Sabbath for the land, the sabbatical and the Jubliee years' concern was to prevent the poor from being endlesslu exploited. Nowhere does the Old Testament require any cultic activity from the general populace in Israel on the Sabbath. Therefore, the book also looks at how the church/Christians today can respond to the Old Testament Sabbath in light of the Chirst-event and the New Testament teaching
