{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110315.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110315.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110315.htm","text":"How they do not kneel from the evening of Saturday till the evening of Sunday.\nThis, too, we ought to know,\u2014that from the evening of Saturday which precedes the Sunday, 712 up to the following evening, among the Egyptians they never kneel, nor from Easter to Whitsuntide; 713 nor do they at these times observe a rule of fasting, 714 the reason for which shall be explained in its proper place in the Conferences of the Elders, 715 if the Lord permits. At present we only propose to run through the causes very briefly, lest our book exceed its due limits and prove tiresome or burdensome to the reader.\nQu\u0153 lucescit inm die dominicum. The phrase is borrowed by Cassian from the Latin of S. Matt. xxviii. 1.\n212:713\nTotis Quinquagesim\u0153 diebus. See above on c. vi.\n212:714\nThat this was the rule of the primitive Church is shown by Tertullian, De Corona Militis, c. iii. \u201cWe count fasting or kneeling in worship on the Lord\u2019s day to be unlawful. We rejoice in the same privilege, also, from Easter to Whitsunday.\u201d And even earlier, in a fragment of Iren\u00e6us, there is a mention of the fact that Christians abstained from kneeling on Sunday in token of the resurrection. For later testimonies see Ambrose, Ep. 119, ad Januarium. Epiphanius, on Heresies, Book III. (Vol. III. p. 583, ed. Dindorf). Jerome, Dial: Adv. Lucif. c. iv., and the Twentieth Canon of the Council of Nic\u00e6a, with Canon Bright\u2019s notes (Notes on the Canons of the First Four General Councils, p. 72).\n212:715","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter XVIII. How they do not kneel from the evening of Saturday till the evening of Sunday.","type":"page"}