Show H SAB SABBATH DAY OF REST AND WORSHIP At the time Moses l was given tic the theTen Ten Commandments the Sabbath da day was the lie seventh day ot of o the week one of ot the feast da days s After he had re- re received received re received the Commandments the Sab Sab- Sabbath Sab- Sab Sabbath Sabbath bath day was observed as a day ot of rest and worship It was to this an- an ancient ancient an ancient Jewish Sabbath that the Fourth Commandment referred The association of ot Sunday with the truE Sabbath and Its development as asa a day of rest came about with the dawn of Christianity From the be- be beginning beginning be beginning Christians commemorated commemorated commemorated ginning many rated the first day of the week as day or Lords Lord's day There docs does not seem eem to be any evl- evl evi evi that the first day was original original- originally ly iy Intended as ns a n substitute for the Jewish Sabbath In fact tact most of ot the early Christians observed both the Sabbath and the Lords Lord's day The tendency to observe the first firt day of the week was confirmed by the theRoman Roman Homan emperor Constantine in A D when he lie issued the civil decree that all the judges judes and townspeople and the lie occupation of all traders should rest on the venerable day ot of the sun As time passed and the Christian church grew In strength the majority of them paid less atten atten- attention tl tion n to the Sabbath day and more to the Lords Lord's day dar until It finally sup sup- supplanted supplanted supplanted planted the Sabbath Many took the Hie position that the first day of the week had divine sanction and that the Fourth Commandment was ap up applicable to It Instead of ot to the Scriptural Scrip Scriptural tural Sabbath of the Hebrews |