Sunday: The Origin of its Observance in the Christian Church

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY5
ANTIQUITY, UNIVERSALITY, AND NATURE OF SUNWORSHIP14
APOSTASY FROM JEHOVAH-WORSHIP TO SUNWORSHIP25
APOSTASY TO SUN-WORSHIP ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY SABBATH DESECRATION30
HEATHEN INFLUENCES IN THE CHURCH35
THE ECLECTIC PHILOSOPHY42
NEO-PLATONISM47
ORIGEN’S PART IN PAGANIZING THE CHURCH52
RESULTS OF THIS PHILOSOPHICAL HANDLING OF THE BIBLE57
THE CHURCH COMPLETELY PAGANIZED61
PAGAN RESPONSE TO THE CHURCH’S ADVANCES79
CONSTANTINE,89
CONSTANTINE, THE CHURCH AND SUNDAY101