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The Cocceians and Voetians divided over two issues: the interpretation of the Sabbath and of the mode of justification in the Old Testament. Whereas the Voetians maintained a stronger sense of continuity between the Sabbath and the mode of justification among the Old and New Testaments, the Cocceians emphasized the discontinuity between the testaments on these issues. Cocceius not only rejected the Puritan doctrine of the Sabbath, but he also rejected the idea that the Israelites were justified in the same mode as Christians. He claimed that the Old Testament believers merely had their sins passed over (paresis), whereas the New Testament believers had them fully remitted (aphesis).