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Not in relaxation of the body, anathematized as Judaizers those 270 REST DAYS from secular duties and occupations, lest they should "give place to the Devil. " 1 Tertullian's statement has sometimes been understood to indicate a Sabba- tarian spirit on the part of its author; properly con- sidered, however, it means only that Christians should so carefully observe the duties peculiar to the Lord's Day*as to neglect, if necessary, their worldly business on that day. Other Church Fathers of the t...hird century, including Origen and Cyprian, made no refer- ence to Sunday as a day of abstinence from labour. The earliest Sunday law, the edict issued by Constan- tine in 321 A. D. , bore no relation to Christianity. 2 What began, however, as a pagan ordinance, ended as a Christian regulation ; and a long series of imperial decrees, during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries, enjoined with increasing stringency abstinence from labour on Sunday. The view that the Christian Lord's Day is but the Jewish Sabbath transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week found occasional expression in both the law and the theology of the who refrained from work on Satur- (W.
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