Scripture Index | History of the Sabbath Index | Preface
History of the Sabbath and the First Day of the Week By J. N. Andrews


Subjects Index



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A
Abyssinians ......................................................... 424-427
Adam, his influence upon the patriarchs ............... 30, 31, 32
Adam must have heard the Creator when he set apart
        the seventh day ................................................ 16-19
“After eight days,” John 20 .................................. 147-149
Anabaptists ........................................................ 422, 423
Analysis of Exodus 16 ........................................ 39-44
Annual sabbaths enumerated ................................ 84, 85
Apostasies, the two great patriarchal ................... 33-35
Apostasy in the early church ................................ 193-203
Apostasy, progress of ......................................... 324, 329-331, 361, 362
Ark in the heavenly temple contains the law ......... 161-163
Armenians of the East Indies ................................ 427-431
Article, the, in Mark 2:27 .................................... 22, 121, 122
Atonement, day of, no mention of its
        observance ........................................................ 30, 86
Atonement, the, relates to decalogue .................... 62-63
Atonement, the, relates to the fourth
        commandment .......................................... 62-63

B
Bamfield, Francis, sufferings of .............................. 487, 488
Barnabas, epistle of ............................................. 231-235
Barnabas thought the Sabbath too pure
        for this wicked world ................................ 299-301
Bohemian Sabbath-keepers .................................. 463, 464
Bound, Dr., theory of, concerning the
        Sabbath ................................................... 472-475

C
Calvin caused Servetus to be arrested on
        Sunday .................................................... 440, 441
Calvin’s doctrine and practice
        concerning Sunday ................................... 436-443
Calvin’s interpretation of first-day texts ................ 438-440
Calvin’s view of the one-day-in-seven theory ....... 437
Carlstadt’s faults, extent of .................................. 448, 449, 453, 454
Carlstadt a Sabbatarian ...................................... 456, 457
Cathari ............................................................... 415-417
Causes which made the Sunday usurpation
        a success ................................................ 329-331
Change of the Sabbath not taught in Ps.118 ......... 155-157
Change of the Sabbath not recorded lest
        it make the Bible too large ....................... 190

523
Change of the Sabbath, unheard of in the
        first centuries ........................................... 204-206, 283-293
Christian Sabbath, Origen thus calls the
        seventh day ............................................ 323, 324
Christ’s teaching with respect to the
        Sabbath ................................................. 115-138
Christ in the field of corn ...................................... 118-124
Christ’s work on the Sabbath like that
        of the Father .......................................... 126, 127
Chrysostom and Jerome on Sunday labor ............ 363, 364
Clement’s numbering of the days
        explained out of Philo ............................. 318-327
Clement on the Lord’s day .................................. 219-222
Climate of Palestine ............................................ 69
Col. 2:14-17, exposition of ................................ 138-141
Columba probably a Sabbath-keeper ................ 401-403
Constantine’s Sunday law .................................. 343-349, 353
Contrast between the origin of the
        Sabbath and Sunday ............................. 332, 333, 352, 353
Councils of the church, character of .................... 362, 363
Covenant not made with their fathers ................. 75
Creation, six days of ......................................... 9-13
Creation, nature of ............................................ 9, 10
Culdees of Great Britain .................................... 400-403

D
Danish and Norwegian Sabbath-keepers ............ 505, 509
Dark Ages defined ............................................ 398, 399
Days, names of ................................................. 16
Days, how many, different ones ......................... 16
Decalogue, a complete moral code .................... 61, 62
Decalogue, perpetuity of in the fathers ............... 309-312
Deluge, why sent ............................................... 33-35
Destruction of Jerusalem caused by
        Sabbath-breaking .................................. 103-108
Dionysius on the Lord’s day ............................... 214, 215
Dominicum defined .......................................... 246-248, 255-257
Dominicum servasti ........................................ 244-257
Dutch Sabbath-keepers ..................................... 467, 468

E
English Sabbath-keepers ................................ 467, 469, 470, 479-492,
Entrance of Sunday into the early
        church ................................................... 261-266
Error not changed into truth by age .................... 195, 196
Eternity .............................................................. 9
Eusebius author of the doctrine that
        Christ changed the Sabbath ................... 355-359
“Every day” may include simply the six
        working days ................................................... 185
Every man fully persuaded in his own mind ........ 183-186

524
F
Famous falsehood examined ............................. 243-257
Fathers, authority of .......................................... 199-201
Festivals of the church enumerated .................... 433, 434
Festivals of the Hebrews enumerated ................ 82, 83
Fires on the Sabbath forbidden, nature
        of the statute ................................................... 67-71
Firmament defined ........................................... 11
First-day history and papal history compared ... 213, 282, 283
First-day observance in the exact words
        of the fathers ................................................... 289
First mention of the Sabbath after Moses .......... 99
Flight of disciples not to be on the Sabbath day ... 132-138
Fourth commandment expounded ..................... 46-50
Fourth commandment in the New Testament ..... 141, 142
Fraud in the Bible Dict. of the Tract Society ...... 211, 212
Frauds in Justin Edwards .................................. 12, 213, 216, 217, 244, 245
Fraudulent testimonials to the Sunday
        Lord’s day ............................................ 211-219
French Sabbath-keepers ................................... 468
Frith, the martyr, judgment on the
        Sabbath ................................................ 459, 460

G
Genesis, bearing of upon the Sabbath ................ 28-30
Gentiles admitted into the commonwealth
        of Israel ................................................ 159, 160
Gentiles blessed for observing the Sabbath ........ 101, 102
German Sabbath-keepers ................................. 467, 499, 500, 509
Gilfillan’s inexcusable fraud ................................ 250-257
Globe our, the Sabbath on ................................ 48
Gregory VII., A.D. 1074, condemns
        Sabbath-keepers ............................................. 420

H
Hallowed identical with sanctified ...................... 17
Hebrews, how God favored them ..................... 44, 45
Hebrews, why made the depositaries of
        the truth ............................................... 33-37, 46, 55, 56
Honors pertaining to the Sabbath law ................ 61
Hungarian Sabbath-keepers .............................. 500
Hypsistarii ........................................................ 339, 340

I
Ignatius never uses the term Lord’s day ............. 211
Ignatius, epistles of ........................................... 237-242
Illustration of the alleged sanctification
        of the seventh day in the wilderness ....... 24
Irenaeus mentions no Lord’s day ........................ 216-218, 271-274
Irenaeus falsely quoted ...................................... 271-274

J
Jericho, Sabbath not violated at taking of ........... 95, 96
Jews, eminent, on the origin of the Sabbath ........ 26, 27
Jubilee, no record of its observance
        in the Bible ........................................... 30, 86
Justin Edwards’ Sunday Sabbath, B.C. 63 ........ 112
Justin Martyr on Sunday .................................. . 267-270
Justin Martyr a no-Sabbath man ....................... 270, 271
Justin Martyr mentions no Lord’s day ................. 212

525
K
Knox and the Scotch of the sixteenth century ..... 443-445

L
Laodicea, Council of, curses Sabbath-keepers ... 360, 361
Laying by in store on first-day ............................ 175-178
Lord’s day of John ............................................. 187, 192
Lord’s day first applied to Sunday ...................... 222-224
Lord’s Supper the ground of controversy
        between Luther and Carlstadt ................. 451-453
Luther and Carlstadt ........................................... 446-459
Luther might have profited greatly by Carlstadt .... 457-458
Luther on Gen. 2:3 .............................................. 17

M
Man, meaning of, in Mark 2:27 ............................ 22, 121, 122
Manna, falling of, not the occasion of the
        Sabbath.............................................................. 38, 39
Martyrdom of John James ................................... 489-491
Melito of Sardis .................................................. 215, 216
Miracles and judgments in support of Sunday........ 374, 378, 379, 392, 393
Miracles pertaining to the Sabbath in the
        wilderness .......................................................... 40
Modern historians on Sabbath in the early church,. 333-338, 341
Moral obligation of the Sabbath ........................... 50
Morrow defined .................................................. 181
Moses rehearses the law ...................................... 74-79
Moses in the Mount ............................................. 51-61
Mosheim and Neander ........................................ 229, 230, 242, 243
Mount Sinai at the giving of the law ...................... 44-46
Mystical Lord’s day ............................................. 219-222, 224, 226

N
Nazarenes ........................................................... 338, 339
Nehemiah’ Sabbath reform .................................. 106-108
New Covenant has a temple and an ark ............... 160

O
Offerings for the dead as ancient as the Sunday
        —the Lord’s day ........................................... 223, 224
Olive tree, the good ............................................. 165, 166
Omissions, remarkable ........................................ 30
Oracles of God preserved by the Hebrews .......... 158, 159
Origen on Lord’s day .......................................... 225, 226, 291
Other readings of Gen. 2:2 .................................. 14

P
Palaeologus ........................................................ 462, 463
Papal usurpation began with reference to
        Sunday ................................................... 274, 275
Patriarchal age, its great light ............................... 33-34
Passaginians ....................................................... 415, 418
Passover festival defined ..................................... 83
Penalty of the law ............................................... 58
Pentecost, day of, Acts 2:1 .................................. 149-151

526
Petrobrusians ...................................................... 418-420
Pentecost defined ................................................ 83
Perpetual statute for their generations, a
        parallel precept .......................................
Perpetuity and observance of the Sabbath in
        the fathers ............................................... 315-329
Pliny, epistle of .................................................... 211, 235-237
Pope Innocent III. responsible for the roll
        from heaven ............................................ 388-391
Precepts given to Israel classified ......................... 51
Presbyterians and Episcopalians contend
        over Sunday ............................................ 471-477
Presbyterians get Sunday into the fourth
        commandment ......................................... 472-476
Priceless value of the Sabbath .............................. 509, 510
Prophets taught the people on the Sabbath ........... 100
Protestant Sunday-keeping as viewed by a
        learned Catholic theologian ...................... 477, 478

R
Reasons for Sunday stated in the words of
        the fathers ............................................... 289-294
Reasons out of the fathers for rejecting
        the Sabbath ............................................ 299-307
Records of ancient Sabbath-keepers destroyed ... 399
Redemption no argument for change of
        Sabbath .................................................. 151-155
Reformation differently viewed by Luther
        and Carlstadt........................................... 451
Reformers all brought something from Rome ........ 478
Reformers, just view of ....................................... 444, 445
Rest of the Creator, reason for it ......................... 14, 15
Restoration of Israel, if they keep the Sabbath ..... 102
Resurrection of Christ did not affect the
        Sabbath .................................................. 142-147
Roll from heaven in behalf of Sunday ................... 385-389
Roman church turns the Sabbath into a fast .......... 280, 281
Romanists have corrupted the fathers .................. 200, 201
Rule of faith of the man of God ........................... 202
Rule of faith of the Romanist ............................... 202
Russian Sabbath-keepers ................................... 464-467

S
Sabbatarian principles ........................................ 480, 483, 487, 489
Sabbatarians, ancient bodies of .......................... 338-340, 354
Sabbatati or Insabbatati defined ......................... 407-411
Sabbath a sign ................................................... 43, 44, 53-58
“Sabbath between” ............................................ 168
Sabbath-breaking in the wilderness, effect of ...... 65-67
Sabbath at creation in the early fathers ................ 312-315
Sabbath defined ................................................. 20
Sabbath during Dark Ages ................................. 398-431

527
Sabbath during the forty years ............................. 64-74
Sabbath given, meaning of the term ...................... 42, 43
Sabbath-keepers in Constantinople, A.D. 1054 ... 420-422
Sabbath-keepers in Rome, A.D. 600 .................... 374, 375, 400
Sabbath in ancient writers means Saturday ........... 370, 371
Sabbath in the book of Acts ................................ 167-182
Sabbath in the fourth century ................................ 359-362
Sabbath in the fifth century ................................... 366, 367
Sabbath in the prophetic Scriptures ...................... 100-106
Sabbath in the time of Maccabees ........................ 110-112
Sabbath made known, meaning of the term ........... 49
Sabbath may be kept over the earth ..................... 102
Sabbath more ancient than circumcision ................ 128
Sabbath not a memorial of deliverance from
        Egypt .................................................................. 76-79
Sabbath not a shadow of redemption .................... 27, 28
Sabbath not a Jewish feast .................................... 71, 72,
Sabbath not mentioned from Adam to Moses ........ 92-95
Sabbath not mentioned from Moses to David ......... 92-95
Sabbath, the acts by which it was made ................. 14-16
Sabbath, weekly and annual, their difference .......... 86-92
Sabbath, when made ............................................. 15, 16, 20-25, 46, 47
Sabbath, why instituted .......................................... 25, 26, 509, 510
Sabbath in the new earth ........................................ 510-512
Sanctified, the word defined ................................... 15, 17-19
Sanctification of the seventh day was at
        the beginning .............................................. 23-25
Second tables of stone, who wrote them ................. 60, 61
Self-contradiction of Justin Edwards ....................... 177, 178
Seventh day, event on the first of time ..................... 13, 14
Seventh day of the commandment is the
        seventh day of the week ............................. 48, 49
Seventh-day Baptists of America ............................ 493-499
Seven, signification of the number ........................... 14, 15
Seventh-day Adventists of America ........................ 500-509
Seventh-day Adventists of Switzerland ................... 509
Show-bread eaten by David ................................... 97, 98
Siberian Sabbath-keepers ...................................... 500
Slander of heretics no sin ........................................ 418
Sticks, the case of picking them up on the
        Sabbath ..................................................... 72-74
Sun and moon stand still ......................................... 96, 97
Sunday a day of relief to souls in
        purgatory and in hell .................................... 383, 384
Sunday an ancient heathen festival .......................... 258-264, 277, 278, 279,
        341, 342, 345-349
Sunday arguments of the Dark Ages, what
        became of them .................................................... 470
Sunday as the sister of the Sabbath ........................ 361, 362
Sunday authoritatively established as Lord’s day ..... 349-351

528
Sunday at the Council of Nice ................................. 275, 276
Sunday during the Dark Ages ................................. 362-367
Sunday edicts of kings, emperors, popes and
        councils ...................................................... 342-346, 349, 353, 359-361,
        366, 372-397
Sunday festival, origin and growth of ....................... 223, 224, 352, 353
Sunday festival defined by the reformers ................. 434-436
Sunday, first witnesses for ...................................... 228-242
Sunday, how mentioned prior to A.D. 194 ............. 218, 219
Sunday labor in the early church not sinful .............. 283-289, 296,
        299, 316-322, 343-345
Sunday labor in the fourth and fifth centuries ........... 363-366
Sunday Lord’s day not traceable to the apostles ..... 204-227
Sunday on a level with other festivals in the
        early church..................................................... 264-266, 295, 296
Sunday sustained only by the Romanists’ rule ...... 202, 203, 223, 224, 294, 477, 478
Sunday, when first called Sabbath ......................... 370, 371
Superstition of the Jews concerning the
        Sabbath .................................................... 113, 114

T
Tabernacles, feast of, defined ................................ 83, 84
Ten commandments alone on the tables of stone .... 79-81
Tertullian’s excuses for Sunday observance ............ 277, 278
Tertullian on Lord’s day ......................................... 222-224
Tertullian’s self-contradiction .................................. 276, 277, 305-307
Theophilus mentions no Lord’s day ........................ 212, 213
Time defined ......................................................... 9
Time, great week of .............................................. 9
Tradition characterized, and exemplified ................ 198, 201, 226, 227
Tradition for the passover more apostolic
        than for Sunday ......................................... 227, 228
Transylvanian Sabbath-keepers ............................ 460-463
Trask, Mrs., sufferings of ...................................... 481-483
Troas, Paul .......................................................... 178-182
True God distinguished from false gods ................. 25, 26
Typical observances no part of the Sabbath law .... 98, 99
Time to commence the Sabbath ............................ 107, 108

U
Unfairness of anti-Sabbatarians ............................. 131, 132

W
Waldenses ........................................................... 403-415
Weeks, how and when made ................................ 16, 30, 31
Wilderness of sin, record of, how
        connecting Gen. 2:1-3 and Ex. 20:8-11 ....... 46, 47



E R R A T A
Page 141, chapter xix., in the notes, should be chapter xxvii
Page 255, “and,” in the Latin notes, should be “&”
Page 295, “exaltation,” in line 16, should be “exultation”
Page 505, “$70,000” read “$82,000” —Auditor’s later report.



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