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71101 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 469.8 (General Conference of SDA)

“You know yourselves do not keep the Sabbath, that is the seventh day.”-“ Letters of Roger Williams ,” Vol. VI, p. 346. Narragansett Club Publications. -Eds.

71103 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 469.10 (General Conference of SDA)

… That Sabbath day may be in every land, At least those parts where mortal men reside (And nowhere else can precepts be applied), There was a place where first the …

71105 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 470.3 (General Conference of SDA)

Sabbath. — See Advent, Second, 22-25; Calendar.

71106 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 470.4 (General Conference of SDA)

… the Sabbath.... The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish …

71107 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 470.5 (General Conference of SDA)

Sabbath, Change of, Gladstone on the Sabbath “Deposed.”—The seventh day of the week has been deposed from its title to obligatory religious observance, and its …

71108 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 470.6 (General Conference of SDA)

Sabbath, Change of, Alexander Campbell on.—I do not believe that the Lord’s day came in the room of the Jewish Sabbath, or that the Sabbath was changed from the …

71109 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 471.1 (General Conference of SDA)

… in “ Sabbath Laws and Sabbath Duties ,” Robert Cox, F. S. A. Scot., p. 333. Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1853.

71110 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 471.2 (General Conference of SDA)

Sabbath, Change of, How the Sunday Institution Crept in.—The Christian church made no formal, but a gradual and almost unconscious transference of the one day to the other.—“ The Voice from Sinai ,” Archdeacon F. W. Farrar, p. 152. *

71111 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 471.4 (General Conference of SDA)

Sabbath, Change of, Eusebius on Transfer by Ecclesiastical Authority.—All things whatsoever that it was duty to do on the Sabbath, these we have transferred …

71112 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 471.5 (General Conference of SDA)

Sabbath, Change of, Action of Council of Laodicea on (about a. d. 364).—Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday [Sabbath, original], but shall work on that …

71113 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 471.6 (General Conference of SDA)

Notes.—The translator has used the word “Saturday.” The original has, of course, “Sabbath,” as the seventh day was always called in ecclesiastical law, until modern times.

71114 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 471.8 (General Conference of SDA)

… of Sabbath.—The people of Constantinople, and of several other cities, assemble together on the Sabbath, as well as on the next day; which custom is never observed …

71115 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 471.9 (General Conference of SDA)

… the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, refuse to do this.—“ Ecclesiastical History ,” Socrates …

71116 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 472.1 (General Conference of SDA)

Sabbath, Change of, Spread of Sun Worship in the Third Century.—Sun worship, however, became increasingly popular at Rome in the second and third centuries …

71117 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 472.3 (General Conference of SDA)

Sabbath, Change of, Church Adopts Pagan Festivals.—It is not necessary to go into a subject which the diligence of Protestant writers has made familiar to …

71118 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 472.4 (General Conference of SDA)

Sabbath, Change of, The Accusation of a Fourth Century Non-Christian.—You celebrate the solemn festivals of the Gentiles, their calends and their solstices …

71119 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 472.5 (General Conference of SDA)

Sabbath, Change of, Influence of Surrounding Paganism.—The early Christians had at first adopted the Jewish seven-day week, with its numbered week days, but …

71120 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 472.6 (General Conference of SDA)

Sabbath, Change of, Mingling of Pagan and Christian Ideas in Promotion of Sunday.—Sunday (dies solis, ... “day of the sun,” because dedicated to the sun), the first day …