But this entire statement is false. The truth is, no writer of the first century, and no one of the second, prior to A. D. 194, who is known to speak of the first day of the week, ever calls it the Lord’s day! Yet the first day is seven times mentioned by the sacred writers _before_ John’s vision upon Patmos on the Lord’s day, and is twice mentioned by John in his gospel which he wrote _after_ his return from that island, and is mentioned some sixteen times by ecclesiastical writers of the second century prior to A. D. 194, and never in a single instance is it called the Lord’s day! We give all the instances of its mention in the Bible. Moses, in the beginning, by divine inspiration, gave to the day its name, and though the resurrection of Christ is said to have made it the Lord’s day, yet every sacred writer who mentions the day after that event still adheres to the plain name of first day of the week. Here are all the instances in which the inspired writers mention the day:— Moses, B. C. 1490. “The evening and the morning were the first day.” Gen. 1:5. Matthew, A. D. 41. “In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week.” Matt. 28:1. Paul, A. D. 57. “Upon the first day of the week.” 1 Cor. 16:2. Luke, A. D. 60. “Now upon the first day of the week.” Luke 24:1. Luke, A. D. 63. “And upon the first day of the week.” Acts 20:7. Mark, A. D. 64. “And very early in the morning, the first day of the week.” Mark 16:2. “Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week.” Verse 9. After the resurrection of Christ, and before John’s vision, A. D. 96, the day is six times mentioned by inspired men, and every time as plain first day of the week. It certainly was not familiarly known as Lord’s day before the time of John’s vision. To speak the exact truth, it was not called by that name at all, nor by any other name equivalent to that, nor is there any record of its being set apart by divine authority as such.