Ezekiel 20:12

“Moreover, also, I gave them my sabbaths, &c.] The Targum is, “the days of the sabbaths;” or sabbath days, the seventh day sabbaths, which recurring throughout the year are many; but, besides these, there were the year of remission, for the seventh year sabbath; and the jubilee year, the great sabbath of all, once in fifty years; yea, Kimchi thinks the feasts, such as the passover, &c. are included: now these are distinguished from the statutes and judgments, or the precepts of the law, which were of a moral nature; these being ritual and ceremonial, and were peculiar to the Jews, and continued but for a while; however, they were gifts, and valuable ones, of considerable use and significance:…”

“sabbaths, . . . a sign between me and them--a kind of sacramental pledge of the covenant of adoption between God and His people. The Sabbath is specified as a sample of the whole law, to show that the law is not merely precepts, but privileges, of which the Sabbath is one of the highest. Not that the Sabbath was first instituted at Sinai, as if it were an exclusively Jewish ordinance (Gen 2:2-3), but it was then more formally enacted, when, owing to the apostasy of the world from the original revelation, one people was called out (Deu 5:15) to be the covenant-people of God. sanctify them--The observance of the Sabbath contemplated by God was not a mere outward rest, but a spiritual…”

“The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children. Ezekiel 20:11 The “statutes” were given on Mount Sinai, and repeated by Moses before his death (Exodus 20:1 ff; Deuteronomy 4:8). In them - Or, through them: and in Ezekiel 20:13. Ezekiel 20:12 See Exodus 31:13. The Sabbath was a sign of a special people, commemorative of the work of creation, and hallowed to the honor of Yahweh, the covenant-God. As man honored God by keeping the Sabbath holy, so by the Sabbath, God “sanctified” Israel and marked them as a holy people. Therefore to profane the Sabbath was to abjure their Divine Governor. Ezekiel…”

“A sign - Of their being peculiarly my people. Ezekiel 20:13”

“I gave: Gen 2:3; Exo 16:29, Exo 20:8-11, Exo 35:2; Lev 23:3, Lev 23:24, Lev 23:32, Lev 23:39, Lev 25:4; Deu 5:12-15; Neh 9:14; Mar 2:27, Mar 2:28; Col 2:16 to be: Eze 20:20; Exo 31:13-17 I am: Eze 37:28; Exo 19:5, Exo 19:6; Lev 20:8, Lev 21:8, Lev 21:15, Lev 21:23; Joh 17:17-19; Th1 5:23; Jde 1:1 Ezekiel 20:13”