Footnote 215:
_Vid. Athanas. Hom. de Semente._
Footnote 216:
_Vid. Ignat. Epist. ad Magn._ _And much more to the same purpose may
be seen in a learned book, intitled_ Dies Dominica, _in cap._ iii. _&
alibi passim_.
Footnote 217:
Έν τῆ μιᾶ τᾶν σαββάτων. _On the first from the Sabbath_; so the Jews
named the days of the week.
Footnote 218:
Κατὰ μίαν σαββάτων.
Footnote 219:
_Vid. Ignat. Epist. ad Magnes._
Footnote 220:
_Vid. Just. Mart. edit. a Grab. Apol. 1. § 87, & 89. It may be
observed, that that Father is not alone in his calling it Sunday; for
Tertullian [Adv. Gent. Cap._ xvi.] _calls it so. And Jerom says it may
be so called, because the Sun of Righteousness arose with healing in
his wings; but it is generally called_ the Lord’s day; _and that not
only by others, but by the same Fathers; except in their apologies for
the Christian religion against the Heathen, they used the word in
compliance with their mode of speaking. But that which is more
strange, and savours a little of affectation, is, that Justin, and
some other of the Fathers, should chuse to use a circumlocution,
instead of Friday, as he calls it, the day before Saturday. And
Ignatius, [in Epist. ad Trall.] calls it_ parasceva, _or, the
preparation for the Sabbath, as the Jews did; and Irenæus calls it the
day before the Sabbath, [in Lib._ v. _adv. Her. Cap._ xxiii.] _which
the learned Grabe supposes to be for this reason; that they might shew
how much they detested the name of Venus, to whom Friday was dedicated
by the Heathen. And they ought to have been as cautious of using the
word Sunday, since that was not only dedicated to the Sun. But some
took occasion from thence, to asperse the Christians, as though they
had worshipped the Sun; which Tertullian, in [Apol. adv. Gen. Cap._
xvi.] _is obliged to exculpate them from._
Footnote 221:
Dominicum agere, _or_ celebrare, _was a phrase well known in that age,
in which many Christians were put to death, upon their being examined,
and boldly professing that they observed the Lord’s day; and the
assemblies, in which all the parts of public worship were performed on
that day, were generally called Synaxes_.
Quest. CXVII., CXVIII.