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

evidence that John did not receive new light in
vision at Patmos, bidding him call the first day of
the week the Lord’s Day, and when taken with all
the instances preceding, they constitute a complete
demonstration that the first day was not familiarly
known as the Lord’s Day in John's time, nor indeed
known at all by that name then.
Let us now see whether Lord’s Day as a title
for the first day can be traced back to John by
means of the writings of the fathers.
The following is a concise statement of the
testimony by which the fathers are made to prove
that John used the term Lord’s Day as a name for
the first day of the week. A chain of seven
successive witnesses, commencing with one who
was the disciple of John, and extending forward
through several generations, is made to connect
and identify the Lord’s Day of John with the
Sunday-Lord’s Day of a later age. Thus, Ignatius,
the disciple of John, is made to speak familiarly of
the first day as the Lord’s Day. This is directly
connecting the fathers and the apostles. Then the
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