one, that the Christians in his time observed the Sunday as a prayer day; the other, that they did not observe it as a Sabbath-day.”[169] Such is the summary of the case at the year 150 A.D. No-Sabbathism and a form of Sunday observance were born at the same time. Trained in heathen philosophies until manhood, Justin accepted Christianity as a better philosophy than he had before found. Such a man and those like him could scarcely do other than build a system quite unlike apostolic Christianity. That which they did build was a paganized rather than an apostolic type. Pagan Reasons for Observing Sunday. Pagan philosophy as a source of argument in favor of the observance of Sunday is made still more prominent by CLEMENT of Alexandria, as follows: “And the Lord’s day Plato prophetically speaks of in the tenth book of the _Republic_, in these words: ‘And when seven days have passed to each of them in the meadow, on the eighth they are to set out and arrive in four days.’ By the meadow is to be understood the fixed sphere, as being a mild and genial spot, and the locality of the pious; and by the seven days each motion of the seven planets, and the whole practical art which speeds to the end of rest. But after the wandering orbs the journey leads to heaven, that is, to the eighth motion and day. And he says that souls are gone on the fourth day, pointing out the passage through the four elements. But the seventh day is recognized as sacred, not by the Hebrews only, but also by the Greeks; according to which the whole world of all animals and plants revolve. Hesiod says of it: “‘The first, and fourth, and seventh day were held sacred.’ “And again: “‘And on the seventh the sun’s resplendent orb.’ “And Homer: “‘And on the seventh, then came the sacred day.’ “And: “‘The seventh was sacred.’ “And again: “‘It was the seventh day, and all things were accomplished.’ “And again: “‘And on the seventh morn we leave the stream of Acheron.’ “Callimachus the poet also writes: “‘It was the seventh morn, and they had all things done.’ “And again: “‘Among good days is the seventh day, and the seventh race.’ “And: “‘The seventh is among the prime, and the seventh is perfect.’ “And: “‘Now all the seven were made in starry heaven, In circles shining as the years appear.’ “The _Elegies of Solon_, too, intensely deify the seventh day. And how? Is it not similar to Scripture when it says, ‘Let us remove the righteous man from us, because he is troublesome to us?’ When Plato, all but predicting the economy of salvation, says in the second book of the _Republic_, as follows: ‘Thus he who is constituted just shall be scourged, shall be stretched on the rack, shall be bound, have his eyes put out; and, at last, having suffered all evils, shall be crucified.’”[170]