The Complete Testimony of the Fathers of the First Three Centuries Concerning the Sabbath and First Day

by John Nevins Andrews

TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS.

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CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT.

With respect to the Sabbath, the religious world may be divided into three classes:—

1. Those who retain the ancient seventh-day Sabbath.

2. Those who observe the first-day Sabbath.

3. Those who deny the existence of any Sabbath.[A]

It is inevitable that controversy should exist between these parties. Their first appeal is to the Bible, and this should decide the case; for it reveals man’s whole duty. But there is an appeal by the second party, and sometimes by the third, to another authority, the early fathers of the church, for the decision of the question.