Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 30. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths.] Twice in this chapter is this commanded, that it may be the better remembered: and that men may know that it is not enough to rest on that day, but that rest must be sanctified by a reverent resorting to the sanctuary, and not profaned by running into whorehouses and tippling houses, as in Germany; where Alfred a complains and says, that if the Sabbath day should be named according to many men's observing of it, Daemoniacus potius quam Dominicus vocaretur.
And reverence my sanctuary.] Come we must into the places of God's worship, with an inward awe and fear of his presence, and not as into a dancing school as some do. "How fearful is this place," saith Jacob. It is the place of angels and archangels, the kingdom of God, it is heaven itself, saith Chrysostom. b Away then with all careless negligence and carnal security.
a Alsted., Encyc.
b Hom. 36, ad 1 Cor. iv.