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

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this was a treatise concerning Sunday, though<br />

down to this point no writer calls Sunday by this<br />

name. But it is an important fact that <strong>the</strong> word day<br />

formed no part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> title <strong>of</strong> Melito's book. It was<br />

a discourse on something pertaining to <strong>the</strong> Lord --<br />

d peri tes kuriakes logos -- but <strong>the</strong> essential word<br />

emeras, day, is wanting. It may have been a treatise<br />

on <strong>the</strong> life <strong>of</strong> Christ, for Ignatius thus uses <strong>the</strong>se<br />

words in connection: kuriaken xoen, Lord's life.<br />

Like <strong>the</strong> sentence from Dionysius, it would not<br />

even seem to help <strong>the</strong> claim <strong>of</strong> Sunday to <strong>the</strong> title<br />

<strong>of</strong> Lord’s <strong>Day</strong> were it not for <strong>the</strong> series <strong>of</strong> frauds in<br />

which it st<strong>and</strong>s.<br />

7. The seventh witness summoned to prove that<br />

Lord’s <strong>Day</strong> was <strong>the</strong> apostolic title <strong>of</strong> Sunday, is<br />

Irenaeus. Dr. Justin Edwards pr<strong>of</strong>esses to quote<br />

him as follows:--[8]<br />

"Hence Irenaeus, bishop <strong>of</strong> Lyons, a disciple <strong>of</strong><br />

Polycarp, who had been <strong>the</strong> companion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

apostles, A.D. 167 (it should be A.D. 178), says<br />

that <strong>the</strong> Lord’s <strong>Day</strong> was <strong>the</strong> Christian <strong>Sabbath</strong>. His<br />

words are, 'On <strong>the</strong> Lord’s <strong>Day</strong> every one <strong>of</strong> us<br />

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