Exodus 35:11

After Moses came down from the mountain, the works for the construction of the tabernacle and the making of the priestly vestments are remembered. But before ordering anything about the way of doing these things, Moses reminds the people of the obligation to keep the Sabbath. Well, it is something that draws attention and not without reason why, after receiving a second time the words of the law on the stone tablets, which he himself worked and he wrote himself, only speaks to the people about the Saturday after of his descent from the mountain. For if it was superfluous for the people to hear the ten commandments of the law for the second time, why should it not be superfluous to speak of the Sabbath, since it is already spoken of in the same commandments? Or is it perhaps that this is similar to the veil that covered his face, because the children of Israel could not contemplate the brightness of it? (Cf Ex 34,34.35) Because of the ten commandments he only sent to the people what was said there figuratively. With respect to the other nine commandments as they are sent there, we do not doubt that they are also ordered to be saved in the New Testament. On the other hand, that commandment on the Sabbath, was so veiled for the Israelites with the figurative guard of the seventh day and was mysteriously imposed and indicated with a certain secret, that we do not keep it today. We only see what it meant. In that rest, which requires the abandonment of all servile work, the height of God's grace is great. For good works are done with rest when faith acts for love (Cf Ga 5,6). Fear produces torment, and in torment, what rest is there? Therefore, in love there is no fear (1Jn 4,8), because love has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit that has been given to us (Rm 5,5). That is why the Sabbath is the holy rest consecrated to the Lord (Ex 35,2), that is, rest that must be attributed to the grace of God, not to us, as if it came from us. Because, otherwise, our works will be as if they were human works or sins, or made with fear and not with love, and therefore, servile works without rest. But the fullness of the Sabbath will be in eternal rest. For it has not been instituted uselessly even on Saturdays (Cf Lv 26,31).