THE SATURDAY IS LORD'S DAY ( Exodus 20.8-11 , Hebrews 4.8-11 )
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).
