C. Mervyn Maxwell . Although many commentators of the past have linked the “mark of the beast” with the church of Rome, Seventh-day Adventists have advanced a step further and have identified it with the coercive, end-time enforcement of Sunday observance in opposition to the seventh-day Sabbath of the Ten Commandments. Sunday observance is an institution that the Roman communion has fostered throughout its long career as a prime evidence of its