{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/214/2140200.htm","path":"chr/ecf/214/2140200.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/214/2140200.htm","text":"Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord\u2019s Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ.\nAncient Epitome of Canon XXIX.\nA Christian shall not stop work on the Sabbath, but on the Lord\u2019s Day.\nHere the Fathers order that no one of the faithful shall stop work on the Sabbath as do p. 149 the Jews, but that they should honour the Lord\u2019s Day, on account of the Lord\u2019s resurrection, and that on that day they should abstain from manual labour and go to church. But thus abstaining from work on Sunday they do not lay down as a necessity, but they add, \u201cif they can.\u201d For if through need or any other necessity any one worked on the Lord\u2019s day this was not reckoned against him.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The Ca...","type":"page"}