In an internet age, when time is no longer marked by daylight or the limits of the embodied world, it is harder and harder to keep this command that also seems strange to our ears. Why shouldn’t we work or buy? But in Scripture, the keeping of the Sabbath as a day of strict rest is not meant as a performance of righteousness but a return to faith, a homecoming to the benevolence in which the whole of our existence is rooted.
