Steve,
Here is the specific paragraph from Kline's 1996 paper:
>Exod. 20:11 brings out explicitly that the continuing earthly
>pattern of sabbatical weeks is a human copy of a divine original.
>Within the two-register cosmology of the creation account with all
>its replications of upper register realities in the lower register
>world, all of them reproductions with a difference, there can be no
>doubt about the figurative nature of the relationship of the Sabbath
>ordinance to God's upper register creation week. The gratuitous
>insistence of literalists that the terms of the Sabbath ordinance in
>Exod. 20:11 demand that the creation week be one of literal solar
>days is contradicted by the metaphorical character of the whole
>series of creational replications to which the original Sabbath
>ordinance (Gen. 2:3) belongs. Like man's nature as image of God,
>man's walk in imitation of God's sabbatical way is not a matter of
>one-to-one equivalence but of analogy, of similarity with a
>difference. Like all the other lower register replicas, the
>sabbatical week of the ordinance is a likeness of its original, not
>exactly the same; it is an earthly metaphor for the heavenly
>archetype.
TG
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