Augustine on Sabbath Observance

Historical Account★★★

Augustine [whose testimony is made the more impressive by his being a committed Sunday-keeper] shows...that the [seventh-day] Sabbath was observed in his day “in the greater part of the Christian world.”

— Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1st series, vol. 1, pp. 353, 354.

The point

A historical note that Augustine, a Sunday-keeper, acknowledged the seventh-day Sabbath was widely observed in the Christian world of his time.

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Exodus 20:8

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under a minute · 41 words

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Biblical Observance Sabbath Church History

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