What did Constantine's law require?
Answer
"Let all the judges and town people, and the occupation of all trades rest on the venerable day of the sun;
but let those who are situated in the country, freely and at full liberty, attend to the business of agriculture;
because it often happens that no other day is so fit for sowing corn and planting vines; lest the critical
moment being let slip, men should lose the commodities granted by Heaven."-Edict of March 7, AD. 321,
Corpus Juris Civilis Cod., lib. 3, tit. 12, 3.
NOTE - This edict, issued by Constantine, under whom the Christian church and the Roman state
were first united, in a manner supplied the lack of a divine command for Sunday observance, and may be
considered the original Sunday law, and the model after which all Sunday laws since then have been
patterned. It was one of the important steps in bringing about and establishing the change of the Sabbath.
In what prophecy are Christ's life, suffering, and death touchingly foretold?
What is assured to the believer in Christ?
How came Jesus to live for a time in Egypt?
Why should wives he in subjection to their husbands?
22. What prophetic period begins at the time when the continual mediation of Christ was taken away by the Papacy?
When God brought His people out of Egypt, how did He republish His law?
Through whom is this first dominion to be restored?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle