Show SABBATH DAY OF REST AND WORSHIP at the time moses was given the ten tea commandments the sabbath day was the seventh day of the week one 0 of the feast days after he had received the commandments the sabbath day was wag observed as a day of rest and worship it was to tn this ancient jewish sabbath that the fourth commandment referred the association of sunday with the true truc sabbath and its development na as a day of rest came about with the dawn of christianity from the beginning many christians commemorated the first day of the week as resurrection day or lords day there does not seem to be any evidence that the first day was originally intended as a substitute tor for the jewish sabbath in fact most of the early christians observed both the sabbath and the lords day the tendency to observe the first day of the week was confirmed by the roman emperor constantine in A D when he issued the civil decree that all the judges nail and townspeople and the occupation of all traders should rest on the venerable dakof the sun As time passed and the christian church grew in strength the majority of them paid less attention to the sabbath day and more to the lords day until it finally supplanted the sabbath many took the position that the first day of the week had divine sanction and that the fourth commandment was applicable to it instead of to the scriptural sabbath of the hebrews |