There is a work of completion which follows upon creation, and this may still be going on, and be perfected only when there is a new heaven and a new earth. God created the world in order to make and form and fashion it. Which God created and made.-Literally, created to make. The weekly rest, therefore, is universal, permanent, and independent of the Mosaic law. Legal observance of the Sabbath did not begin till the days of Moses ( Exodus 31:13 Exodus 35:2) but this blessing and sanctification were given prior to any covenant with man, and by Elohim, the God of nature, and not Jehovah, the God of grace. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Sanctified it.-That is, separated it from ordinary uses, and hallowed it.
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