3560 - The Sabbath in the Early Church

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 19, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 37.

3560 — The Sabbath in the Early Church

Am I right in saying that the Sabbath was kept until Constantine thought he changed it, after Christ ascended nearly three hundred years? D. A.

The Sabbath was kept by the early Christians. No one questions that the church at Jerusalem, the early Jewish Christian churches, kept the Sabbath. This is admitted by even strong opponents of the Sabbath. It is clearly evident that the Gentile Christians did the same thing, as the apostle Paul states to the Thessalonians: "For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus." 1 Thess. 2:14. Chambers's Encyclopedia, 1876, volume 8, page 400, article "Sabbath," says, "The early Christians in Judea observed the