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.
By what commands has God guarded the marriage relation?
How many must meet the test of the judgment?
How long will the saints engage in this work of judgment?
To whom does vengeance belong?
What did Christ say of the certainty of this prophecy?
At His ascension, how did the angels say Christ would come again?
Against whom do the wicked go to make war, and what is the outcome?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle