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

name for the so-called eighth day. Yet these three
men, Clement, Tertullian, and Origen, who first
make this application, not only do not claim that
this name was given to the day by the apostles, but
do plainly indicate that they had no such idea.
Offerings for the dead and the use of the sign of the
cross are found as near to apostolic times as is the
use of Lord’s Day as a name for Sunday. The three
have a common origin, as shown by Tertullian's
own words. Origen's views of the Sabbath, and of
the Sunday festival, will be noticed hereafter.
Such is the case with the claim of Sunday to the
title of Lord’s Day. The first instance of its use, if
Clement be supposed to refer to Sunday, is not till
almost one century after John was in vision upon
Patmos. Those who first call it by that name had no
idea that it was such by divine or apostolic
appointment, as they plainly show. In marked
contrast with this is the Catholic festival of the
Passover. Though never commanded in the New
Testament, it can be traced back to men who say
that they had it from the apostles!
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