The North British Review styled Sunday, ...the wild solar holiday of all pagan times.
And Dr. Chambers in the Old Testament Student, says that Dies Solis, day of the sun, was… ...its old astronomical and heathen title.
Q: Now what appears from all this? Just this: That whenever the Jews apostatized from God and plunged into some form of sun worship, they ignored God’s memorial, the Sabbath, and instead performed superstitious and lascivious rites on the day of the sun, the first day of the week, which was “the wild solar holiday of all pagan times.”
Their worship was not solemn and spiritual, but was hilarious, and was marked by festivities. Their feast-days to their gods were holidays, not sacred days.
Since sun worship was the prevailing religion in the Roman Empire, it is easy to imagine what would be the tendency of those members of Christian churches that should apostatize, or were only partially converted from heathenism.
The same circumstances would produce the same results after Christ as before Christ.
God wants His works to be remembered, because it is only by these that He can be kept in mind as Creator and Sanctifier; and the Sabbath is that which He has made as the memorial of His works. Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them."
E.J. Waggoner
E.J. Waggoner
