If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,...
Revelation 14:9
In 321, Constantine published his edicts enjoining the observance
of the first day, in all cities and towns, while the country people were allowed to work, and at that time and after, most of the churches observed the Sabbath; therefore Constantine did not effect the CHANGE.
Dr. Chambers says—"By Constantine’s laws, made in 321, it was decreed that for the future the Sunday should be kept a day of rest in the cities and towns; but he allowed the country people to follow their work. In 538, the council of Orleans prohibited this country labor." Encyclop. Art. Sund. Lond. 1791.
Socrates, A. D. 440, says—There are various customs concerning assembling; for though all the churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath day, yet the Alexandrians and the Romans, from an ancient tradition refuse to do this." Socrates Eccl. Hist. B. 5, ch. 21, Basel ed." James White
Revelation 14:9
"This mark is very conspicuous, in the forehead or hand, and
signifies not a literal mark, but a prominent profession, that all may see and know. It is the mark of the beast; therefore it is a prominent point of religious faith introduced by the Papal power, which is the observance of the first day of the week as a holy day of rest instead of the seventh.
The New Testament recognizes no other.
The only weekly Sabbath of the Bible is the seventh-day rest.
The New Testament recognizes no other.
Christ and his holy apostles have not spoken of any other. Some say they keep the first day in honor of Christ’s resurrection; but who has told them to do so?
Has Jesus? No, never, neither have the apostles.
We defy Sunday keepers to bring the least evidence from the Word of God for keeping the first day of the week as a holy day of rest.
The example of Christ and his disciples, in travelling fifteen miles on the very day of the resurrection, and the example of the Apostle Paul at Troas [Acts 20:7-15,] is sufficient to show any one that they did not regard the first day as a day of rest; but as the first working day, as God set the example when he made the world. Then as there is no evidence for the first day in the holy scriptures, we inquire, who effected the change of weekly rest from the seventh to the first day?
In 321, Constantine published his edicts enjoining the observance
Dr. Chambers says—"By Constantine’s laws, made in 321, it was decreed that for the future the Sunday should be kept a day of rest in the cities and towns; but he allowed the country people to follow their work. In 538, the council of Orleans prohibited this country labor." Encyclop. Art. Sund. Lond. 1791.
Socrates, A. D. 440, says—There are various customs concerning assembling; for though all the churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath day, yet the Alexandrians and the Romans, from an ancient tradition refuse to do this." Socrates Eccl. Hist. B. 5, ch. 21, Basel ed." James White