“2. The editors of the Benedictine edition of St. Augustine’s works. They state that the word _Dominicum_ has the two meanings of a church and the Lord’s supper. For the former they quote among other authorities, a canon of the council of Neo Cesarea. For the latter meaning they quote Cyprian, and refer also to St. Augustine’s account of his conference with the Donatists, in which allusion is made to the narrative of the martyrdom of Saturninus.[507] “3. Gesner, who, in his Latin Thesaurus published in 1749, gives both meanings to the word _Dominicum_. For that of the Lord’s supper he quotes Cyprian; for that of a church he quotes Cyprian and also Hillary.”[508] Domville states other facts of interest bearing on this point, and then pays his respects to Mr. Gurney as follows:— “It thus appearing that the reference made by Bishop Andrews to the ‘Acts of Martyrs’ completely fails to establish his dictum respecting the question alleged to have been put to the martyrs, and it also appearing that there existed strong and obvious reasons for not placing implicit reliance upon that dictum, what are we to think of Mr. Gurney’s regard for truth, when we find he does not scruple to tell his readers that the ‘stated day’ mentioned in Pliny’s letter as that on which the Christians held their religious assemblies, was ‘clearly the first day of the week,’ is proved by the very question which it was customary for the Roman persecutors to address to the martyrs, _Dominicum servasti?_—‘Hast thou kept the Lord’s day?’ For this unqualified assertion, prefixed as it is by the word ‘clearly,’ in order to make it the more impressive, Mr. Gurney is without any excuse.”[509] The justice of Domville’s language cannot be questioned when he characterizes this favorite first-day argument as— “One of those daring misstatements of facts so frequent in theological writings, and which, from the confident tone so generally assumed by the writers on such occasions, are usually received without examination, and allowed, in consequence, to pass current for truth.”[510]