How to understand E. G. White's (SDA) comment on the fourth commandment in Exodus 20:8?
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This interpretation comes from the complete commandment, not just the first verse.
What is interesting about the fourth commandment is that there is a description that follows it. This detail is what adds to the interpretation.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.
It is verse 11 that describes the authority by linking to the creator.
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
- NAME = The LORD (YHWH)
- TITLE = your God (v10)
- AUTHORITY = Creator -> Made heaven and earth...
The idea is that if you removed this commandment and its link to creation the uniqueness of the 10 commandments disappear and could be assigned to any god. Which as the story of the golden calf reveals, was a real risk.
This is an important link to the sabbath theme that runs through the bible. From Creation, to the Exodus, To the Gospel, to the second coming the Sabbath is visible through all of those.
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