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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 6, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 19

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

J. MENDENHALL: See exposition of 2 Cor. 3, in the work on The Two Laws, pp. 42–49. See, also, concerning the relation Israel sustained to the law, both before and after leaving Egypt, the History of the Sabbath.

H. C. CADY: In Eld. Andrews’ History of the Sabbath, p. 229, you will find this testimony from Neander: “The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the apostles to establish a divine command in this respect; far from them, and from the early apostolic church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday. Perhaps at the end of the second century a false application of this kind had begun to take place; for men appear by that time to have considered laboring on Sunday a sin.”

This is from Neander’s Church History, translated by H. J. Rose, p. 186. In Torrey’s Neander, this sentence is omitted; but there is nothing to contradict this explicit statement found in Rose’s translation.