On what ground have they kept it, and do they keep it?
They suppose they are keeping a commandment of God.

Have such the mark of the beast?
By no means.

Their course is attributable to an error unwittingly received from the church of Rome, not to an act of worship rendered to it.
But how is it to be?
The church which is to be prepared for the second coming of Christ must be entirely free from papal errors and corruptions.

A reform must hence be made on the Sabbath question.

The third angel proclaims the commandments of God, leading men to the true in the place of the counterfeit.