[435] Note of the Douay Bible on 2 Tim. 3:16, 17.
[436] Obligation of the Sabbath, pp. 254, 255.
[437] Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2; Rev. 1:10.
[438] A Treatise of Thirty Controversies.
[439] The writer has prepared a small work entitled, “The Complete Testimony of the Fathers of the first Three Centuries concerning the Sabbath and First Day,” in which, with the single exception of Origen, some of whose works were not at that time accessible, every passage in the fathers which gives their views of the Sabbath and first-day is presented. This pamphlet can be had of the publishers of the present work for fifteen cents. To save space in this History, a general statement of the doctrine of the fathers is here made with brief quotations of their words. But in “The Complete Testimony of the Fathers” every passage is given in their own words, and to this little work the reader is referred.
[440] Those who dispute these statements are invited to present the words of the fathers which modify or disprove them. The reader who may not have access to the writings of the fathers is referred to the pamphlet already mentioned in which their complete testimony is given.
[441] See the testimony on [page 189] of this work.
[442] Justin Martyr’s First Apology, chap. lxvii.
[443] Eusebius’s Eccl. Hist., book iv. chap. xxiii.
[444] See [chap. xviii.] of this History.