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Christian Sunday
Justin used the name "Sunday" for the day for Christians to worship together. This name, "Day of the Sun," came from nature worship, but it was easy to link with Christian ideas. Christ is the "Sun of righteousness,"1 and "the Light of the world."2 Justin also thought of Sunday as the first day of Creation, when God said, "Let there be light", and the day when Jesus rose from the dead. In the New Testament, we can see that for Christians this day was already beginning to take the place of the Sabbath (Saturday) of the Jews.3 This last Scripture reference gives the day its true name, the Lord's Day.4
Strict Jews fasted twice in the week,5 on Monday and Thursday. By the year A.D. 100, Christians also fasted twice, but had changed the days to Wednesday and Friday. On Wednesday, they remembered the betrayal of Jesus,6 and on Friday his crucifixion.7 But these events happened, not only on certain days of the week, but at a special time of the year, about the time of the Jewish Passover on the "14th of the month Nisan," which means the first full moon in spring.
1Malachi 4.2 2John 9.5 3Acts 20.7; 1 Corinthians 16.2; Revelation 1.10 4Selections from "The First Advance - Church History 1: AD 29-500" by John Foster S. P. C. K, Copyright All rights reserved. 5Luke 18.12 6Mark 14.10 7Mark 15.24, 25
"Sunday is the day for Christians to worship together."
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