Category: History - Religious
It is inevitable that controversy should exist between these parties. Their first appeal is to the Bible, and this should decide the case; for it reveals man's whole duty. But there is an appeal by the second party, and sometimes by the third, to another authority, the early f...
This writer contradicts himself in the most extraordinary manner concerning the Sabbath and the law of God. He asserts that the Sabbath was abolished by Christ, and elsewhere em...
12. CHAPTER X.This person wrote about A. D. 300. His bishopric was in Germany. Of his work on the "Creation of the World," only a fragment is now preserved. In the first section he speaks thu...
3. CHAPTER III."For he hath revealed to us by all the prophets that he needs neither sacrifices, nor burnt-offerings, nor oblations, saying thus, 'What is the multitude of your sacrifices unto...
7. CHAPTER V.This father was born "somewhere between A. D. 120 and A. D. 140." He was "bishop of Lyons in France during the latter quarter of the second century," being ordained to that offi...
10. CHAPTER VIII.This man was bishop of Rome from A. D. 236 to A. D. 250. The letters ascribed to Fabian were probably written at a considerably later date. We quote them, however, at the very p...
11. CHAPTER IX.Cyprian wrote about A. D. 255. I find only two references to Sunday in his works. The first is in his thirty-second epistle (the thirty-eighth of the Oxford edition), in which h...
8. CHAPTER VI.This father became Bishop of Antioch in A. D. 168, and died A. D. 181. First-day writers represent him as saying, "Both _custom_ and _reason_ challenge from us that we should ho...
2. CHAPTER II."Have before thine eyes the fear of God, and always remember the ten commandments of God,--to love the one and only Lord God with all thy strength; to give no heed to idols, or...
1. CHAPTER I.It is inevitable that controversy should exist between these parties. Their first appeal is to the Bible, and this should decide the case; for it reveals man's whole duty. But t...
6. chapter xix., terms "the memorial of God." In chapter xxvi., Justin"The Gentiles, who have believed on him, and have repented of the sins which they have committed, they shall receive the inheritance along with the patriarchs and the prophets,...
4. CHAPTER IV.Justin's "Apology" was written at Rome about the year 140. His "Dialogue with Trypho the Jew" was written some years later. In searching his works, we shall see how much greater...
5. chapter twelve:--"The new law requires you to keep perpetual Sabbath, and you, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious, not discerning why this has been commanded you; and if you...