The Complete Testimony of the Fathers of the First Three Centuries Concerning the Sabbath and First DayAndrews, John Nevins
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The Complete Testimony of the Fathers of the First Three Centuries Concerning the Sabbath and First Day
Andrews, John Nevins
Sabbath; Seventh-Day Adventists; Sunday
It is certainly noteworthy that the so-called Lord's day, for which
no divine warrant is produced, is here exalted above the Sabbath
of the Lord notwithstanding the Sabbath is acknowledged to be the
divine memorial of the creation, and to be expressly enjoined in the
decalogue, which the writer declares to be of perpetual obligation.
Tested by his own principles, he had far advanced in apostasy; for he
held a human festival more honorable than one which he acknowledged to
be ordained of God; and only a single step remained; viz., to set aside
the commandment of God for the ordinance of man.
In book viii., section 2, paragraph 4, it is said, when a bishop has
been chosen and is to be ordained,--
"Let the people assemble, with the presbytery and bishops that are
present, on the Lord's day, and let them give their consent."
In book viii., section 4, paragraph 33, occurs the final mention of
these two days in the so-called "Apostolical Constitutions."
"Let the slaves work five days; but on the Sabbath day and the
Lord's day let them have leisure to go to church for instruction in
piety. We have said that the Sabbath is on account of the creation,
and the Lord's day, of the resurrection."
To this may be added the 64th Canon of the Apostles, which is appended
to the "Constitutions":--
"If any one of the clergy be found to fast on the Lord's day, or on
the Sabbath day, excepting one only, let him be deprived; but if he
be one of the laity, let him be suspended."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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