Who first enjoined Sunday-keeping by law?
Answer
Constantine the Great.
NOTES - "The earliest recognition of the observance of Sunday as a legal duty is a constitution of
Constantine in AD. 321, enacting that all courts of justice, inhabitants of towns, and workshops were to be
at rest on Sunday (venerabili die Solis), with an exception in favor of those engaged in agricultural labor. "Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition, article "Sunday."
"Constantine the Great made a law for the whole empire (AD. 321) that Sunday should be kept as
a day of rest in all cities and towns; but he allowed the country people to follow their work."-Encyclopedia
Americana, article "Sabbath."
"Unquestionably the first law, either ecclesiastical or civil, by which the Sabbatical observance of
that day is known to have been ordained, is the edict of Constantine, AD. 321."-Chambers' Encyclopedia,
article "Sabbath."
5. What further statement of Christ seems to lay the responsibility for the origin of sin upon Satan and his angels?
What is another evidence of divine acceptance?
What, then, are the visible proofs of genuine justification by faith?
What admission did they secure from Him as the basis of condemning Him?
How was the flood stayed, and Satan's -design defeated?
When and by whom was the Council of Nice convened?
What has the Lord promised to be to the oppressed?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle