Show SABBATH DAY OF REST AND WORSHIP At the time Moses was given the theTen theTen theTen Ten Commandments the Sabbath day was the seventh day of ot the tile week one ot of the feast east days das After he had re- re re received the Commandments the Sab Sab- Sabbath Sabbath Sabbath bath day was observed as a day daT of rest and worship It was to this an- an ancIent an ancient cleat Jewish Je Sabbath that the Fourth Commandment referred The association of ot Sunday with the true Sabbath Sabbaths and Us Its development ns as asa asa a day of rest came about with the dawn of or Christianity From the be- be beginning be beginning ginning ninny many Christians commemorated commemorated commemorated rated the tile first day Ilay of ot the week ns as Resurrection da day or Lords Lord's day There Ther does not seem eem to be any evl evI evi that the first day was original orIginal- originally ly Intended as a substitute for tor the Jewish Sabbath In fact most of the early Christians observed ed both tile he Sabbath and the Ule Lords Lord's day The tendency to observe e the first day of the week weel was confirmed by the theRoman theRoman Roman noman emperor Constantine In A D when he Issued the civil chII decree that nil the Judges and townspeople and the occupation of all trailers traders should rest on the venerable do day of the sun As time passed and the Christian church grew In strength the majority of them paid less atten to the Sabbath day and more to the Lords Lord's day until It finally sup supplanted planted the Sabbath Many took the position that the first day of or the week had divine sanction and that thai the Fourth Commandment was ap to It Instead of ot to the Ilse Scrip Scrip- Scriptural Scriptural Scriptural tural Sabbath of the Hebrews |