"One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind" (Rom. xiv, 5).
"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days" (Colossians ii. 16).
JUSTIN MARTYR.
"You, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious.... Our God is not pleased with such observances" (Dialogues, chap. xii).
"You see that the heavens are not idle, nor do they observe the Sabbath" (Ibid, chap, xxiii).
IRENÆUS.
"These things [circumcision and Sabbath observance], therefore, which were given for bondage, and for a sign to them, he [Christ] canceled by the new covenant of liberty" (Against Heresies).
TERTULLIAN.
"The observance of the Sabbath is demonstrated to have been temporary" (Answer to Jews).
"By us [Christians], to whom Sabbaths are strange" (On Idolatry).