In any case, after Constantine’s time references abound to the Lord’s day as not only the first but also the eighth day of the week, and therefore a day of eschatological promise. St. Augustine, for instance, at the conclusion of his monumental City of God, a veritable review of human history as he knew it, and which he organized in terms of six ages reflecting the six days of creation, expresses this hope as follows: “The seventh age will be our Sabbath, which will have no sunset, which will come