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C. S. Mosna
Christ - Did Christ anticipate a new day of worship dedicated exclusively to Him?
Clement of Alexandria - Made references to the Lord's day in Stomateis 7.
dimanche
Dionysius of Corinth - Dionysius of Corinth made references to the Lord's day.
domenica - The official designation for Sunday in Latin
Edgar Hennecke - Edgar Hennecke wrote New Testament Apocrypha, I, and refers on page 180 to Serapion of Antioch refusting the docetic teachings of Gospel of Peter.
Eusebius
Gospel of Peter
Lord of the Sabbath - The sayings of Jesus in the Gospels include "Lord of the Sabbath", but do not include the phrase "Lord's day".
Lord's day - The "Lord's day" first appeared at the end of the second century.
Lord's day, not included in the Gospels - The sayings of Jesus in the Gospels do not include the phrase "Lord's day".
Luke 6:5 - One of the locations where Jesus uses the phrase "Lord of the Sabbath".
Mark 16:2
Mark 2:28
Mark 2:28 - One of the locations where Jesus uses the phrase "Lord of the Sabbath".
Melito of Sardis - Melito of Sardis wrote a treatise "On the Lord's day", according to Eusebius (HE, 4, 26, 2), but only the title has survived.
Origen - Origen refered to Lord's day in In Exodum homiliae 7, 5.
Serapion of Antioch - Serapion of Antioch refuted the docetic teachings of the Gospel of Peter.
Sunday - Did Christ anticipate a new day of worship dedicated exclusively to Him?
Tertullian
Quotations from our authors:
"He is the Lord of the Sabbath and in this expression, quoted by all three of the Synoptics, there is a covert reference to the Lord's day. He, as Lord, chooses his own day." - Wilfrid Stott, "A Note on the Word KYPIAKH in Rev 1. 10", NTS 12 (1965): 75 - Wilfrid Stott
"Therefore we can conclude with certainty that the event of the resurrection has determined the choice of Sunday as the day of worship of the first Christian community." - C. S. Mosna - resurrection
C.S. Mosna said that W. Rordorf gave "the rise of Sunday festivity a too-Christian origin, neglecting other userful elements and detatching it from its Jewish context." (Storia della domenica, pp. 41 and 5). - W. Rordorf
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