yahweh's

Updated: May 9, 2025

In the sixth century we find the sabbath elevated to the position of specific sign of Yahweh's protective relation to the people, and still later it is regarded as a day of joyous obedience to divine law. Thus, the process of moralization of the day was probably a long-continued one.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

This optimistic point of view, which has no doubt existed in germinal shape among all peoples, appears also in the modified dualism of the Old Testament and the late Jewish and Christian schemes. As a member of Yahweh's court and council he makes regular reports to his divine lord and pleads cases before the divine court.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV