From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity (Biblia.com)

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How did the change from Saturday to Sunday worship happen in early Christianity? Samuele Bacchiocchi spent five years researching that question at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, examining ancient documents. He concluded that the transition from Saturday to Sunday began a century after Christ’s death, resulting from an interplay of political, social, pagan and Christian factors. He...

Arguing a minori ad maius, that is, from a minor to a greater case, Christ shows how the Sabbath had been paradoxically distorted. An ox or an ass could be freed from his manger on the Sabbath, but a suffering woman could not be released on such a day from her physical and spiritual infirmity. What a perversion of the Sabbath! Christ acted therefore against the normative tradition to restore the Sabbath to God’s intended purpose. It should be noticed that in this and in all instances Christ is not

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