"--_Vol.
I, p. 339 (German ed.)._
To meet the emergency of need in Judea, these believers were asked to
look over their business affairs at the beginning of each week, until
Paul should come, laying aside a gift as God had prospered them.
No Sunday Sacredness in the New Testament
This is the record--not one suggestion in all the New Testament of
Sunday sacredness, to say nothing of precept or commandment of the Lord.
The late R.W. Dale, D.D., a leading Congregationalist of England, wrote:
"It is quite clear that, however rigidly or devotedly we may
spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath.... The Sabbath
was founded on a specific, divine command. We can plead no such
command for the observance of Sunday.... There is not a single
line in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty
by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday."--_"The Ten
Commandments," pp. 106, 107._
That religious classic, Smith and Cheetham's "Dictionary of Christian
Antiquities," says that the "notion of a formal substitution" of the
first day for the seventh,
"and the transference to it, perhaps in a spiritualized form,
of the Sabbatical obligation established by the promulgation of
the fourth commandment, has no basis whatever, either in Holy
Scripture or in Christian antiquity.
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