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71641 In Defense of the Faith, p. 166.4 (William Henry Branson)
“For the first five centuries of the church there is no mention of any transfer or change of the Sabbath to the first day of the week.”— Church History, p. 79.
71642 In Defense of the Faith, p. 166.6 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath to Sunday.”— The History of the Christian Religion and Church, vol. 1, p. 186.
71643 In Defense of the Faith, p. 169.4 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath, part 2, chap. 5, par. 6.
71644 In Defense of the Faith, p. 169.6 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath upon the Sunday, but it is the Church of the Middle Ages and its scholastic teachers.”— Sondagens Historie, p. 37.
71645 In Defense of the Faith, p. 169.7 (William Henry Branson)
… from Sabbath observance to Sunday observance came in after the first centuries of the Christian Era had passed, especially among the Western churches …
71646 In Defense of the Faith, p. 171.2 (William Henry Branson)
… Christian Sabbath? The answer is clear. The emperor was enjoining upon Christians and pagans alike the festival of the sun-god, and was thereby legalizing …
71647 In Defense of the Faith, p. 173.5 (William Henry Branson)
… Christian Sabbath. Would that prove anything for its sacredness? Was this Roman emperor, who, according to Mr. Canright, was still sacrificing to heathen deities …
71648 In Defense of the Faith, p. 174.1 (William Henry Branson)
… ! The Sabbath law is found in the Word of God. Failing to find a Sunday law there, Mr. Canright resorts to the edict of a half Christian, half pagan emperor, of the …
71649 In Defense of the Faith, p. 175.7 (William Henry Branson)
… Christian Sabbath (Saturday). This resulted from the influence of paganism upon the Christian church. Of the popularity of sun worship at Rome at that time …
71650 In Defense of the Faith, p. 177.3 (William Henry Branson)
On this point Mr. Canright, as an Adventist writing in 1885, before he had renounced his faith in the Bible Sabbath, truly said:
71651 In Defense of the Faith, p. 177.5 (William Henry Branson)
… where Sabbath keeping stopped and Sunday observance began, as there was a gradual mingling of truth and error.
71652 In Defense of the Faith, p. 178.2 (William Henry Branson)
… Lord’s Sabbath. And while some of these might have been soundly converted, there is evidence to show that though the Sabbath was kept, Sunday was also observed …
71653 In Defense of the Faith, p. 178.3 (William Henry Branson)
… God’s Sabbath, until, by the influx of half-converted pagans into the church, bringing with them their solar holiday, it began to supplant its divinely appointed …
71654 In Defense of the Faith, p. 179.1 (William Henry Branson)
J. N. Andrews, author of The History of the Sabbath, tells us how Constantine was really responsible for laying the foundations of the Papacy. We quote two paragraphs from him:
71655 In Defense of the Faith, p. 180.1 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath, substituting by church authority the pagan festival of Sunday for the Christian Sabbath, Saturday. This the church began to enforce by edict …
71656 In Defense of the Faith, p. 180.3 (William Henry Branson)
… Saturday [Sabbath, original], but shall work on that day; but the Lord’s day they shall especially honor, and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work …
71657 In Defense of the Faith, p. 181.1 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath? It did. It required Christians to rest on the Lord’s day, meaning Sunday, and prohibited them from resting on the Bible Sabbath (Saturday), under …
71658 In Defense of the Faith, p. 181.4 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath when no one had kept it Since AD. 140?
71659 In Defense of the Faith, p. 182.1 (William Henry Branson)
In order to get over this point, Mr. Canright is forced to admit that there were those who were still keeping the Sabbath, but he brands them as heretics, and tries to make it appear that they were a small minority. (See The Lord’s Day, p. 217.)
71660 In Defense of the Faith, p. 182.2 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath observers were the real heretics and were in the minority. We have already furnished abundant proof that the Sabbath was still observed very …