Where begins the first day of the week?
People are celebrating the day of the
resurrection of Jesus Christ, although nothing is said in the Bible that Christ
commanded his followers to specifically honor this day.
Note. "Reluctance to have anything
in common with Judaism led to what Christians very soon became a special way to
celebrate the first day of the week-Sunday ... This holiday, like all other
church holidays, has always been a human-oriented, not having anything to do
with the Apostles, who did not have the slightest intention to consolidate
celebration of the first day of the week the divine command. Celebration Sunday
also has no relation to the early Christian Apostolic Church, which respected
the Holy Saturday and don't even think about how to bring the divine
commandment of Saturday on Sunday. Perhaps this misconception has come to
church somewhere at the end of the second century, Christians had to be
considered a sin to work on this day» (August Neander, The History of the
Christian Religion and Church, p. 186).
"Observance of Sunday was the first
addition to the sabbath, but the larger Christian Church separated from
Judaism, the less value it attached the celebration Saturday, until, finally,
it is not forgotten" (l. Duchesne, Christian Worship, Its Origin and
Evolution, p. 47).
Who first legalized the celebration of
Sunday?
Emperor Constantine The Great.
Note.
"The Christian Church Originally
believed Sunday day of rest and, therefore, does not seen any analogy between
the Jewish Sabbath and Christian Sunday afternoon, except that both are equally
recognized days of worship of God.
Observance of Sunday begins from Church
tradition, and the Church of ...
Tertullian, possibly the first to
mention that on Sunday, Christians continued to work. For the first time
legalized the widespread celebration of this day of Laodicea. Emperor
Constantine I issued the first civil law; Saint Martin of Braga, perhaps for
the first time used the phrase "casual labour" in its present
theological sense "(Vincent j. Kelly, Forbidden the Sunday and Feast-Day
Occupations, p. 203).
"At the State level, mandatory
observance of Sunday was legitimized by the Emperor's edict of Constantine I,
published in the year 321, insrtruction, to all the courts, craft workshops, and
all urban residents have relied heavily on the first day of the week (venerbili
die solis), the only exception was for those who were engaged in agricultural
work (Encycloipaedia Britannica, 1th ed., art. "Sunday").
"Day of the Sun let all the
Honourable judges, bureaucrats, and the whole city people are buried, and let
all the craft shops will be closed. But in the countryside the people involved
field work may freely and fearlessly continue to work, as it often happens,
that the next day could go rain and cannot be neither sow, nor work in
grape-Nike; and if you missed a good time for these works, the blessings of
heaven does not have been poured out so generously "(Released 7 March
Crisp and Konstantin, each of
which at that time was elected Consul for
the second time; Codex Justinianus, lib 3, tit. 12, 3, in History of the
Christian Church, by Philip Schaff [Scribners, 1902 ed.], vol. 3, p. 380).
The edict, issued by the Emperor
Constantine, the Church Union triggered with the State in the Roman Empire and,
in a sense, fill the absence of God's commandments to observe Sunday. It was
one of the most important steps leading to a distortion of Church commandments
on Saturday.
That testifies to this Christian church
historian Eusebius?
"Everything that needed to be done
on Saturday, we (the Church) was transferred to the Lord's day (Sunday)"
(Eusebius, Commentary on the Psalms, in the Patrologia Graece, vol. 23, cols.
1171.1172).
Note. Changing the commandments on
Saturday was the result of a joint effort between Church and State over several
centuries. Eusebius of Caesarea (270-338), a famous Bishop of the Christian
Church, as well as the biographer of Emperor Constantine, constantly him, was
recognized as the father of church history.
How does the Church Cathedral was
prohibited from celebrating the seventh day and written widely adhered to
Sunday?
Laodikijskim Church in the 4th century.
The Cathedral took place in the city of Laodicea, in Asia minor.
Note.
Canon 29 reads: "on Saturday was
not for Judaizing Christians and don’t work, and work like all people. However,
all Christians should be especially venerate the Lord's day. That day, if
possible, should refrain from day-to-day work, nervous. If you find that
someone is judaises, then this must be was expelled from Christ (betrayed by
anathema) "(Charles Joseph Hefele,
A History if the Counsils of the Church, vol.2 [1896], p.316).
Puritan clergyman William Prine in 1655,
said: "the Laodicea ... for the
first time approved the celebration of the Lord's Day observance of the Jewish
Sabbath and forbade under penalty of damnation "(A briefe Polemicall
Dissertation Conserning ... the Lord 's-Day-Sabbath, p. 44).
"What happened to the Laodikijskom
Cathedral, was only a step on the way to change the commandments on Saturday.
This Cathedral is considered to be the first that officially banned the
celebration Saturday and ordered all the Christians to consecrate the first day
of the week, if possible, on this day from all the work. However, the Cathedral
was not as strong as the later decrees designed to legitimize celebration
Sunday. Various historians have reported conflicting information about when
this Council was held. The exact date is unknown, but it can be assumed that he
was somewhere between 343 and 381 year "(Hefele, vol. 2, p. 298).
