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72141 Facts of Faith, p. 81.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath, or Saturday, as the still valid rest day, by saying: ‘Pray, that your flight be not on the Sabbath’ (on which day ye according to the third [fourth] commandment …
72142 Facts of Faith, p. 81.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath day.’ The Jewish Christians might entertain scruples against travelling on the Sabbath beyond the legal distance, which was about five furlongs …
72143 Facts of Faith, p. 81.3 (Christian Edwardson)
… Sabbath-keeping, that they would not even anoint His sacred body on the Sabbath. They “prepared spices and ointments” on Friday, “and rested the Sabbath day according …
72144 Facts of Faith, p. 82.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath, and when asked by the Gentiles to preach the same sermon again, he did not suggest a meeting on Sunday, but waited till “the next Sabbath day.” ( Acts …
72145 Facts of Faith, p. 82.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, does it not seem strange that they never informed us about it in the New Testament, which is the only …
72146 Facts of Faith, p. 83 (Christian Edwardson)
The Sabbath in History
72147 Facts of Faith, p. 83.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath question, we shall first consult an eyewitness, who had travelled over the greater part of Christendom: Socrates, the Greek historian, who was …
72148 Facts of Faith
… the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, refuse to do this. The Egyptians in the neighbourhood …
72149 Facts of Faith, p. 83.3 (Christian Edwardson)
The footnote which accompanies the foregoing quotation explains the use of the word ” Sabbath...” It says:
72150 Facts of Faith
… ‘the Sabbath’ by the ancient Fathers and historians.... The Latins kept the Sabbath as a fast, the Greeks as a feast; and the 64th of the Apostolical Canons forbids …
72151 Facts of Faith, p. 83.4 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath. Who was it that urged this Sabbath fasting against the will of the churches in general? Pope Sylvester (314-335) was the first to order the churches …
72152 Facts of Faith
… the Sabbath; how hard a thing it was for one to get the mastery of the other.” — “History of the Sabbath,” part 2, chap. 2, pp. 44, 45. London: 1636. (The original spelling is retained …
72153 Facts of Faith, p. 84.2 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath. They knew that the churches generally would not give it up willingly, and as yet the popes did not have the power to force them to do it. But if the …
72154 Facts of Faith
… only Sabbath excepted, which was called the Great Sabbath, between Good Friday and Easterday.... From hence it is plain, that all the Oriental churches, and the …
72155 Facts of Faith
… the Sabbath of the Jews; ... therefore the Christians, for a long time together, did keep their conventions upon the Sabbath, in which some portions of the law were …
72156 Facts of Faith
“Canon XVI. - The Gospels are to be read on the Sabbath Day, with the other Scriptures.” — “Index Canonum,” — John Fulton, D. D., LL. D., p. 255. New York: 1883.
72157 Facts of Faith
… the Sabbath, and spent the day in devotion and sermons. And it is not to be doubted but they derived this practice from the apostles themselves, as appears by …
72158 Facts of Faith, p. 85.4 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath day; but of Him they knew that He had neither transgressed nor abolished the Jewish Sabbath, but truly sanctified it. And they knew also, how He had …
72159 Facts of Faith, p. 86.1 (Christian Edwardson)
… the Sabbath commandment during the time of the Apostles. Certainly not within the territory of the Jewish Christendom; for they continued to keep the actual …
72160 Facts of Faith
… .... The Sabbath was a strong tie which united them with the life of the whole people, and in keeping the Sabbath holy, they followed not only the example, but also …