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1 | keeping the sabbath day holy how? | Ex 20:10 | KALUMBA | 161147 | ||
YOU SHALL KEEP THE SABBATH DAY HOLY, HOW CAN I KEEP THIS LAW AS A CHRISTIAN? | ||||||
2 | keeping the sabbath day holy how? | Ex 20:10 | kalos | 161151 | ||
The Lord's Day ____________________ "In 321 Constantine proclaimed Sunday to be official day of rest in the Roman Empire (Codex Justinianus 3.12.3), but this does NOT seem to have been RELATED TO ANY CONCERN WITH THE JEWISH SABBATH." (Emphasis added.) ____________________ 'The expression "the Lord's day" is found only once in the Bible. In Revelation 1:10 John relates the beginning of his visionary experience to being in the Spirit "on the Lord's Day."' 'Noteworthy in these early [historical] texts is the LACK OF IDENTIFICATION OF SUNDAY WITH THE JEWISH SABBATH. Luke has little to say about early Christian observance of the Sabbath, apart from recording Paul's preaching on the Sabbath in Jewish synagogues (Acts 13:14, 42, 44; 17:2; 18:4; 16:13), which perhaps says less about Paul's commitment to Sabbath observance than about his missionary strategy. Indeed, Paul has little interest in observing special days as sacred (Rom 14:5-6; Gal 4:9-11; Col 2:16). Ignatius contrasts observance of the Sabbath with living for the Lord's Day (Magnesians 9:1). The Epistle of Barnabas views the significance of the biblical Sabbath as being a symbol of the future rest established at the return of Jesus (15:1-8; cf. Heb 4:3-11). Justin Martyr speaks of the Sabbath in terms of a perpetual turning from sin (Dialogue with Trypho 12). In 321 Constantine proclaimed Sunday to be official day of rest in the Roman Empire (Codex Justinianus 3.12.3), but this does not seem to have been related to any concern with the Jewish Sabbath. By the end of the fourth century, church leaders such as Ambrose and John Chrysostom were making such a connection, defending relaxation from work on Sunday on the basis of the Fourth Commandment and paving the way for later Catholic and Protestant elaboration on Sunday as the Sabbath. 'In the early church, then, the Christians began to give a special place to Sunday as the day on which Jesus was raised from the dead. It soon became a fixed day for worship, a celebration of the resurrection centered around the Lord's Supper.' --Joseph L. Trafton (Emphasis added.) Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Edited by Walter A. Elwell ____________________ http://bible.crosswalk.com/Dictionaries/ BakersEvangelicalDictionary/ bed.cgi?number[equals sign]T444 |
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