human
or
gpt
is the proper name of the seventh day of the week, as much so as
human
and that to attach this proper name _now_ to some other day of the week, and to affirm that God meant that other day, as much as he did the seventh, when he wrote the law on tables of stone, is as unreasonable as it is impious. If you say, that when God speaks of
gpt
he means
human
you are as far from the truth as if you said that, when he speaks of Moses, he does not mean any particular man, but
gpt
Moses _was_ one of the Israelites, just as the Sabbath-day _is_ one day in seven. But when God says Moses, he means Moses the son of Amram; and when he says
human
he means the seventh day of the week. You _may_ give different names to the same object, without interfering with its identity; but to apply the same name to two different objects, and then to affirm that these two objects are identically the same, so that what is predicated of the one must be true of the other, is as though a navigator should discover an island in the Southern Ocean, and call it
gpt
England, and then affirm that the late work of Mr. Macaulay, entitled
human
The History of England,