A GOOD ITEM by G. W. Amadon

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 20, 1862

A GOOD ITEM.

By G. W. Amadon

THE Comprehensive Commentary, in disposing of Rev. xii, 17, "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ," makes the following valuable historical statement:

"Some think hereby are meant the Albigenses, who were first by Dioclesian driven into barren and mountainous places, and afterward cruelly murdered by popish rage and power, for several generations; and for no other reason, than, because they kept the commandments of God, and held the testimony of Jesus Christ."

We quote this merely to show that the Albigenses were Sabbath-keepers; as any issue between Bible Christians and the church of Rome on the commandments of God must have reference to the fourth precept of that law. And when we bear in mind that Dioclesian ruled the Roman empire from A. D. 284–305, we have good evidence that God had suffering witnesses for his Sabbath at that early date.

G. W. AMADON.