Show SABBATH DAY OF REST AND WORSHIP at the time moses was given the ten commandments the sabbath day was the be seventh day of the week one of f the feast days after lie he had received the commandments the sab bath day ins observed as a day of rest and worship it was to this ancient jewish sabbath that the fourth commandment referred the association of sunday with the true sabbath and its development na its a day of rest came about with the dawn of christianity from the be ginning many christians christiana commedo com rated the first day of the week as resurrection day or lords day there does not seem to be any evi dence that aliat the first day was ang originally intended its as a substitute for the jewish sabbath in tact fact most of the early christians observed both the sabbath and the lords day the tendency to observe the first insl day of the N week eek was confirmed by the roman emperor constantine in A D when he issued the civil decree that all the judges and townspeople and the occupation of all traders should rest on the venerable day of the he sun As time passed and the christian church grew in strength the majority of them paid less atten tion to the sabbath day and more to the lords day until it finally sup planted the sabbath many took the position that the first day of the week had divine sanction and that the fourth commandment was wag ap to it instead of to the scrip tural sabbath of the hebrews Re brews |