Holy Day of the Week

!! 8th Day as "Bonus"

These demonstrate a custom of "the 8th Day", but not necessarily a replacement of the 7th day Sabbath.

!!! Acts 20:7

"On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight."

(This one is particularly telling, given the numerous instances of the Apostles attending the synagogue and otherwise observing the Sabbath.)

!!! Epistle of Barnabas 15:8-9

An epistle written sometime between 70AD and 132AD attributed to somebody named Barnabas.

Finally He saith to them; Your new moons and your Sabbaths I cannot away with. Ye see what is His meaning ; it is not your present Sabbaths that are acceptable [unto Me], but the Sabbath which I have made, in the which, when I have set all things at rest, I will make the beginning of the eighth day which is the beginning of another world. Wherefore also we keep the eighth day for rejoicing, in the which also Jesus rose from the dead, and having been manifested ascended into the heavens.

!!! The Teachings of the Apostles (The Didache)

The Didache is a late first to early second century writing that was widely circulated in the early church. It is one of the earliest examples of a catechism and was considered by some in the early church to be scripture. It was ultimately not included because of its lack of apostolic origin, although its orthodoxy was never questioned.

"And on the Lord's own day gather yourselves together and break bread and give thanks, first confessing your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure..." Didache 14:1

!!! Dionyius's Letter to Rome

Dionyius was bishop of Corinth in the early second century. Fragments of his letter to the Roman church is preserved by Eusebius in his book on Church History.

"We passed this holy Lord's day, in which we read your letter, from the constant reading of which we shall be able to draw admonition, even as from the reading of the former one you sent us written through Clement."

!!! Bardaisan's Laws of Various Countries

Bardaisan/Bardesanes (154-222 A.D.), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardaisan - a second century Gnostic Christian who although he was a part of a school of unorthodox teachings, sheds some light into some of the more uncontroversial aspects of Christianity of that era.

"And what shall we say of the new race of us Christians, whom Christ at His advent planted in every country and in every region? For, lo! Wherever we are, we are all called after the one name of Christ --  Christians. On one day, the first of the week, we assemble ourselves together, and on the days of the readings we abstain from taking sustenance."

!!! Clement of Alexandria's Stromata

Clement of Alexandra (150-215AD) was a theologian who although was criticized by some later writers is still highly regarded as a Church Father and is appreciated for his insight into Christianity of the second century and early third century.

Stromata Book VII Chapter XII:

"He, in fulfilment of the precept, according to the Gospel, keeps the Lord's day, when he abandons an evil disposition, and assumes that of the Gnostic, glorifying the Lord's resurrection in himself."

!!! Cyprian of Carthage's Epistle 58

Cyprian was the bishop of Carthage during the middle of the third century. Cyprian famoudly disagreed vehemently with Stephen the Roman bishop on some matters surrounding baptism and the lapsi to which Stephen called Cyprian 'antichrist'.

"For because the eighth day, that is, the first day after the Sabbath, was to be that on which the Lord should rise again, and should quicken us, and give us circumcision of the spirit, the eighth day, that is, the first day after the Sabbath, and the Lord's day, went before in the figure; which figure ceased when by and by the truth came, and spiritual circumcision was given to us."

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