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.
To how many is the Lord good?
How long will the saints engage in this work of judgment?
For what did Christ reprove the Pharisees and Sadducees?
What warlike scene is given under this trumpet?
What is the chief occupation of Satan and his angels?
22. How did He manifest His sympathy in the case of Mary and her friends weeping over the death of Lazarus?
What above all else shows God's willingness to do this?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle