Christian Churches of God
PO Box 369, WODEN
ACT 2606, AUSTRALIA
Coordinator-General:
Wade Cox
Email: secretary@ccg.org
(No. A_B2)
(Edition 1.0
19990716-19990716)
This work
by Rabbi Samuel Kohn, the Chief Rabbi of Budapest writing in 1894 was published
in Hungarian and German. It was never published in English. This English work
is a translation from the German. The work has a foreword by Wade Cox,
Coordinator-General of the Church, which was considered necessary to explain
the contextual background of the work, and to isolate some serious errors of
fact in the work, which may have mislead an uninformed reader.
A glossary
of terms was prepared and the entire work was edited by Wade Cox and published
by the church's publishing arm for the commanded Biblical Reading of the Law in
1998 in the USA.
The work is
very important to anyone wishing to isolate the early doctrines of the
Sabbatarian Church in Transylvania and examine them in comparison with the
doctrines of Judaism and also in isolating the errors and the dangers of
Judaising within the Sabbath Church. This work shows the original positions and
the doctrine of the church at the Reformation and gives an invaluable insight
into the forms of worship, the calendar and doctrines of the Sabbath-keeping
church at the end of the early Waldensian era.
This work
is a must for any professing Sabbath-keeper’s library as it provides an insight
into the struggles and persecution of the faith during the transition from Catholic
to Protestant domination and the influence and fate of the church within the
Islamic incursions into Europe. It is most interesting because it is written by
a chief rabbi of the area concerned and displays an extraordinary approach. The
work is made all the more interesting because of the way the foreword is used
to isolate and critically examine the academic approaches involved in the
original work. More important to the
Sabbatarian faith is the background history given in the foreword that shows the
progression of Sabbatarianism from the time of the early church to the time
frame of the setting of the book, beginning with the Reformation.
Price $20
US plus postage. Available from the offices of the church by e-mail or other
order.