History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

of David, "All things are put under him," he adds:
"It is manifest that he is excepted which did put all
things under him." (1 Cor. 15:27; Ps. 8) 10. And
lastly, in the words of John, "I was in the Spirit on
the Lords day," (Rev. 1:10) written many years
after this epistle of Paul, we have an absolute proof
that in the gospel dispensation one day is still
claimed be the Most High as his own.[14]
About ten years after this epistle was written,
occurred the memorable flight of all the people of
God that were in the land of Judea. It was not in the
winter; for it occurred just after the feast of
tabernacles, sometime in October. And it was not
upon the Sabbath; for Josephus, who speaks of the
sudden withdrawal of the Roman army after it had,
by encompassing the city, given the very signal for
flight which our Lord promised his people, tells us
that the Jews rushed out of the city in pursuit of the
retreating Romans, which was at the very time
when our Lord's injunction of instant flight became
imperative upon the disciples. The historian does
not intimate that the Jews thus pursued the Romans
upon the Sabbath, although he carefully notes the
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