[455] De Corona, sects. 3 and 4; Testimony of the Fathers, pp. 68, 69.
[456] An Answer to the Jews, chap. iv.; Testimony of the Fathers, p. 73.
[457] Against Celsus, book 8. chap. xxii.; Testimony of the Fathers, p. 87.
[458] Eusebius’s Eccl. Hist., book v. chap. xxiv.
[459] Socrates’s Eccl. Hist., book v. chap. xxii.
[460] Anatolius, Tenth Fragment.
[461] Socrates’s Eccl. Hist., book v. chap. xxii.
[462] Sozomen’s Eccl. Hist., book vii. chap. xviii.; see also Mosheim, book i. cent. 2, part ii. chap iv. sect. 9.
[463] Socrates’s Eccl. Hist., book v. chap. xxii.; McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia, vol. iii. p. 13; Bingham’s Antiquities, p. 1149.
[464] Maclaine’s Mosheim, cent. 1, part ii. chap. iv. sec. 4. I have given Maclaine’s translation, not because it is an accurate version of Mosheim, but because it is so much used in support of the first-day Sabbath. Maclaine in his preface to Mosheim says: “I have sometimes taken considerable liberties with my author.” And he tells us what these liberties were by saying that he had “often added a few sentences, to render an observation more striking, a fact more clear, a portrait more finished.” The present quotation is an instance of these liberties. Dr. Murdock of New Haven who has given “a close, literal version” of Mosheim, gives the passage thus:—