Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 35:3

3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

This command seems to be onely temporary and extraordinary during the present season and condition, and not extending to succeeding generations. For 1. There are instances of temporary precepts both in the Old and New Testament, which yet are not in their places said to be so. Such were some of the precepts concerning the Passeover. Exod. 12. 11. as is confessed. And such was▪ that law of abstaining from things strangled and blood, Act. 15. 2. This precept is nakedly proposed, and not called a perpetual statute, nor enjoyned to be observed in their generations, as other precepts are, to whom those or some like clauses are frequently added. 3. The sabbath is rather a feast-day than a fast-day. And the Iews did make feasts and invited guests upon the sabbath-day, which could not probably be without kindling a fire. And, which is more considerable, Christ himself, who fulfilled all righteousness and therefore would not have joined in the violation of the sabbath, went to one of those feasts Luk. 14. And the Corinthians as they received the Lords Supper upon that day, which none question, so they had their feasts, as is confessed, and apparent from 1 Cor. 11. 21, 22, &c. 4. The kindling of a fire was no greater hinderance to the religious observation of the Sabbath than other things which were allowed upon that day, such as the washing and dressing of themselves, eating and drinking, &c. 5. This prohibition doth not seem to concern the dressing of meat, as many understand it by comparing this with Exod. 16. 23. (which place I humbly conceive is misunderstood, as I have there intimated, for that was lawful to be done upon their most solemn days, Exod. 12. 16.) but the service of the Tabernacle, which is the subject of this chapter and the occasion of these words, and the sence seems to be this, You shall kindle no fire for any handy-work throughout your habitation, no not for the service of this Tabernacle, for the heating of any tools, or the melting of any metals, or other things belonging to it, which being to be made for Gods service, and deserving and requiring all expedition, they might probably conceive that such work might be done upon that [illegible: 1+ letters]y. And here also, as oft elsewhere, under one kind all the rest are comprehended and forbidden.