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

through circumcision.
4. "The command of circumcision, again,
bidding [them] always circumcise the children on
the eighth day, was a type of the true circumcision,
by which we are circumcised from deceit and
iniquity through Him who rose from the dead on
the first day after the Sabbath."[22]
Clement, of Alexandria, appears to treat solely
a mystical eighth day or Lord’s Day. It is perhaps
possible that he has some reference to Sunday. We
therefore quote what he says in behalf of this day,
calling attention to the fact that he produces his
testimony, not from the Bible, but from a heathen
philosopher. Thus he says:--
"And the Lord’s Day Plato prophetically speaks
of in the tenth book of the Republic, in these
words: 'And when seven days have passed to each
of them in the meadow on the eighth day they are
to set out and arrive in four days.'"[23]
Clement's reasons for Sunday are found outside
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