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6681 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 283.1 (John Nevins Andrews)
… principal argument in its support is furnished by tracing first-day observance back to the early Christians, who, it is said, would not have hallowed the day …
6682 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 283.2 (John Nevins Andrews)
… historical argument in behalf of each is the same. Both began with very moderate pretensions, and gradually gaining in power and sacredness, grew up in strength …
6683 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 291.2 (John Nevins Andrews)
… the arguments adduced by his predecessors. He therefore coined an original argument which seems to have been very conclusive in his estimation as he offers …
6684 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 292.1 (John Nevins Andrews)
… only argument adduced by Cyprian in behalf of the first-day-day festival. The circumcision of infants when eight days old was, in his judgment, a type of infant …
6685 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 292.5 (John Nevins Andrews)
… writer’s argument for Sunday:-
6686 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 303.1 (John Nevins Andrews)
… an argument against the seventh day, it is a decisive confirmation of the fact already proven, that Justin did not make Sunday a day of abstinence from labor …
6687 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 303.2 (John Nevins Andrews)
… an argument against the Sabbath, it does show that Justin could have attached no Sabbatic character to Sunday. But he has yet one more argument against the …
6688 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 307.1 (John Nevins Andrews)
Origen attempts to prove that the ancient Sabbath is to be understood mystically or spiritually, and not literally. Here is his argument:-
6689 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 307.4 (John Nevins Andrews)
… fourth argument is original, and may fitly close the list of reasons assigned in the early fathers for not observing the Sabbath. It is given in full without …
6690 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 325.2 (John Nevins Andrews)
… an argument drawn from the title of the sixth psalm (see its marginal reading) is exalted above the Lord’s holy day, and made the queen of all days!
6691 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 365.3 (John Nevins Andrews)
St. Augustine, the contemporary of Jerome, gives a synopsis of the argument in that age for Sunday observance, in the following words:-
6692 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 365.5 (John Nevins Andrews)
… -day arguments were unknown to Augustine. He gave the credit of the work, not to Christ or his inspired apostles, but to the holy doctors of the church, who, of their …
6693 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week
… -day arguments - The eating of meat forbidden upon the Sabbath by the pope - Pope Urban II. ordains the Sabbath of the Lord to be a festival for the worship of the …
6694 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 378.5 (John Nevins Andrews)
… -day argument now so familiar to all, that Sunday is proved to be the true Sabbath because that men are struck by lightning who labor on that day. Thus we read …
6695 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 383.5 (John Nevins Andrews)
At the same time, another argument of a similar kind was brought forward to render the observance still more strict. Morer informs us respecting that class who in this age were most zealous advocates of Sunday observance:-
6696 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 383.6 (John Nevins Andrews)
… old argument of compassion and charity to the damned in hell, who during the day, have some respite from their torments, and the case and liberty they have is …
6697 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 406.5 (John Nevins Andrews)
… the argument, insisting that the parallel did not hold, for that the kingdom of Christ, which is not of this world, is a very different state of things from the …
6698 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 419.1 (John Nevins Andrews)
… weighty argument with an Episcopalian - he enumerates various classes of heretics who had been condemned by the Catholic church for keeping holy the seventh …
6699 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 421.1 (John Nevins Andrews)
… the arguments of the legate, confuting those alleged by Nicetas, that he obliged the monk publicly to recant, and anathematize all who held the opinion that …
6700 History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, p. 464.2 (John Nevins Andrews)
“Hospinian of Zurich, in his treatise ‘Concerning the Feasts of the Jews and of the Gentiles,’ chapter 3. (Tiguri, 1592) replies to the arguments of these Sabbatarians.” Cox, vol. ii. p. 202.