Scotland and Ireland
Professor James C. Moffatt, D.D., Professor of Church History at Princeton,
says: It seems to have been customary in the Celtic churches of early times,
in Ireland as well as Scotland, to keep Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, as
a day of rest from labour. They obeyed the fourth commandment literally
upon the seventh day of week." "The Church in Scotland," p.140.
Scotland and Ireland
"The Celts used a Latin Bible unlike the Vulgate (R.C.) and kept Saturday
as a day of rest, with special religious services on Sunday." Flick, "The
Rise of Mediaeval Church," p. 237
Rome
Gregory I (A.D. 590-640) wrote against "Roman citizens (who) forbid
any work being done on the Sabbath day." "Nicene and Post- Nicene
Fathers," Second Series, Vol, XIII, p.13, epist. 1
Rome (Pope Gregory I, A.D.590 TO 604)
"Gregory, bishop by the grace of God to his well-beloved sons, the Roman
citizens: It has come to me that certain men of perverse spirit have disseminated
among you things depraved and opposed to the holy faith, so that they forbid
anything to be done on the day of the Sabbath. What shall I call them except
preachers of anti-Christ?" Epistles, b.13:1
Rome (Pope Gregory I)
Declared that when anti-Christ should come he would keep Saturday as the
Sabbath. "Epistles of Gregory I, "b 13, epist.1. found in "Nicene
and Post-Nicene Fathers."
"Moreover, this same Pope Gregory had issued an official pronouncement
against a section of the city of Rome itself because the Christian believers
there rested and worshipped on the Sabbath." Same reference.
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