The Complete Testimony of the Fathers of the First Three Centuries Concerning the Sabbath and First Day - J. N. Andrews

titles is this: “On the Lord’s Day.” But it should be
remembered that down to this date no writer has
called Sunday the Lord’s day; and that every one
who certainly spoke of that day called it by some
other name than Lord’s day. To say, therefore, as
do first-day writers, that Melito wrote of Sunday, is
to speak without just warrant. Moreover the word
“day” is omitted in the original Greek of Eusebius.
It is not certain, therefore, that Melito wrote of the
Lord’s day. He wrote of something pertaining to
the Lord. It may have been the Lord’s Supper, as
Paul wrote, or the Lord’s life, as wrote Ignatius.
Testimony of the Heretic Bardesanes
Bardesanes, the Syrian, flourished about A.D.
180. He belonged to the Gnostic sect of
Valentinians, and abandoning them, “devised
errors of his own.” In his “Book of the Laws of
Countries,” he replies to the views of astrologers
who assert that the stars govern men’s actions. He
shows the folly of this by enumerating the
peculiarities of different races and sects. In doing
this, he speaks of the strictness with which the
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