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

"The manna fell on the Lord’s Day, and not on
the Sabbath to show the Jews that even then the
Lord’s Day was preferred before it."[25]
Origen seems to have been of Tertullian's
judgment as to the inconclusiveness of the
arguments adduced by his predecessors. He
therefore coined an original argument which seems
to have been very conclusive in his estimation as
he offers this alone. But he must have forgotten
that the manna fell on all the six working days, or
he would have seen that while his argument does
not elevate Sunday above the other five working
days, it does make the Sabbath the least reputable
day of the seven! And yet the miracle of the manna
was expressly designed to set forth the sacredness
of the Sabbath and to establish its authority before
the people. Cyprian is the next father who gives an
argument for the Sunday festival. He contents
himself with one of Justin's old arguments, viz.,
that one drawn from circumcision. Thus he says:--
"For in respect of the observance of the eighth
day in the Jewish circumcision of the flesh, a
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