Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

synod doth command all the members thereof upon
pain of mortal sin, not to eat flesh upon
Saturdays.”[22] Decree 16, which will not be
rendered verbatim, demands that all feast and fast
days shall commence and cease at midnight,
because the practice of beginning and ending the
day at sundown is Jewish.[23] This decree is in
direct opposition to the Scriptures which command
that the day begin at sunset.
The effort of the papacy to disgrace the
Sabbath by turning it into a fast day is attested by
many authors. The historian Neander has stated
that the early opposition to the honoring of the
seventh-day Sabbath by Christians led to the
special observance of Sunday in its place.[24]
Bishop Victorinus, about 290, betrays the real
motive of the papacy in the introduction of the
Sabbath fasting as follows: “Let the parasceve
become a rigorous fast, lest we should appear to
observe any Sabbath with the Jews.”[25] Neander
also wrote: “While in the Western, and especially
in the Roman Church, where the opposition against
Judaism predominated, the custom, on the other
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