The European Union in Prophecy by Ellen White

The European Union in Prophecy
Dogmatically, Liturgically, Ascetically Explained, 12th ed. (St. Louis, Missouri: B.
Herder, 1937); Josef Andreas Jungmann, The Mass of the Roman Rite, Its Origins
and Development, translated from the German by Francis A. Brunner (New York:
Benziger Bros., 1951). For the non-Catholic view, see John Calvin, Institutes of the
Christian Religion, b. 4, chs. 17, 18; and Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Doctrine of the
Real Presence (Oxford, England: John H. Parker, 1855).
Page 65. The Sabbath Among the Waldenses.--There are writers who have
maintained that the Waldenses made a general practice of observing the seventh-day
Sabbath. This concept arose from sources which in the original Latin describe the
Waldenses as keeping the Dies Dominicalis, or Lord's day (Sunday), but in which
through a practice which dates from the Reformation, the word for "Sunday" has been
translated "Sabbath."
But there is historical evidence of some observance of the seventh-day Sabbath
among the Waldenses. A report of an inquisition before whom were brought some
Waldenses of Moravia in the middle of the fifteenth century declares that among the
Waldenses "not a few indeed celebrate the Sabbath with the Jews."--Johann Joseph
Ignaz von Doellinger, 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 that this source indicates the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath.
Page 65. Waldensian Versions of the Bible.--On recent discoveries of Waldensian
manuscripts see M. Esposito, "Sur quelques manuscrits de l'ancienne litterature des
Vaudois du Piemont," in Revue d'Historique Ecclesiastique (Louvain, 1951), p. 130 ff.;
F. Jostes, "Die Waldenserbibeln," in Historisches Jahrbuch, 1894; D. Lortsch, Histoire
de la Bible en France (Paris, 1910), ch. 10.
A classic written by one of the Waldensian "barbs" is Jean Leger, Histoire
Generale des Eglises Evangeliques des Vallees de Piemont (Leyden, 1669), which was
written at the time of the great persecutions and contains firsthand information with
drawings. For the literature of Waldensian texts see A. Destefano, Civilta Medioevale
(1944); and Riformatori ed eretici nel medioeve (Palermo, 1938); J. D. Bounous, The
Waldensian Patois of Pramol (Nashville, 1936); and A. Dondaine, Archivum Fratrum
Praedicatorum (1946).
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