The Great Controversy - Righteousness is Love

533DEVELOPMENT, TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY FRANCISA. BRUNNER (NEW YORK: BENZIGER BROS., 1951). FOR THENON-CATHOLIC VIEW, SEE JOHN CALVIN, INSTITUTES OF THECHRISTIAN RELIGION, B. 4, CHS. 17, 18; AND EDWARD BOUVERIEPUSEY, THE DOCTRINE OF THE REAL PRESENCE (OXFORD,ENGLAND: JOHN H. PARKER, 1855).ORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 65. THE SABBATH AMONG THEWALDENSES.--THERE ARE WRITERS WHO HAVE MAINTAINEDTHAT THE WALDENSES MADE A GENERAL PRACTICE OFOBSERVING THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH. THIS CONCEPTAROSE FROM SOURCES WHICH IN THE ORIGINAL LATINDESCRIBE THE WALDENSES AS KEEPING THE DIESDOMINICALIS, OR LORD'S DAY (SUNDAY), BUT IN WHICHTHROUGH A PRACTICE WHICH DATES FROM THEREFORMATION, THE WORD FOR "SUNDAY" HAS BEENTRANSLATED "SABBATH."BUT THERE IS HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF SOME OBSERVANCEOF THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH AMONG THE WALDENSES. AREPORT OF AN INQUISITION BEFORE WHOM WERE BROUGHTSOME WALDENSES OF MORAVIA IN THE MIDDLE OF THEFIFTEENTH CENTURY DECLARES THAT AMONG THEWALDENSES "NOT A FEW INDEED CELEBRATE THE SABBATHWITH THE JEWS."--JOHANN JOSEPH IGNAZ VON DOLLINGER,BEITRAGE ZUR SEKTENGESCHICHTE DES MITTELALTERS(REPORTS ON THE HISTORY OF THE SECTS OF THE MIDDLE AGES),MUNICH, 1890, 2D PT., P. 661. THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION THATTHIS SOURCE INDICATES THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH.ORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 65. WALDENSIAN VERSIONS OF THEBIBLE.--ON RECENT DISCOVERIES OF WALDENSIANMANUSCRIPTS SEE M. ESPOSITO, "SUR QUELQUES MANUSCRITSDE L'ANCIENNE LITTERATURE DES VAUDOIS DU PIEMONT," INREVUE D' HISTORIQUE ECCLESIASTIQUE (LOUVAIN, 1951), P. 130FF.; F. JOSTES, "DIE WALDENSERBIBELN," IN HISTORISCHESJAHRBUCH, 1894; D. LORTSCH, HISTOIRE DE LA BIBLE EN FRANCE(PARIS, 1910), CH. 10.