Editing Sabbath in Christianity (section)

===Early Christianity===
[[Jewish Christians]] continued to observe Shabbat but met together at the end of the day, on a Saturday evening.  In the gospels, the women are described as coming to the empty tomb {{langx|el|εις μια των σαββατων||toward the first [day] of the Sabbath}},<ref>Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2</ref> although it is often translated "on the first day of the week". This is made clear in Acts 20:7 when Paul continued his message "until midnight" and a young man went to sleep and fell out of the window.  Christians celebrate on Sunday because it is the day on which Jesus had risen from the dead and on which the [[Holy Spirit in Christianity|Holy Spirit]] had come to the apostles.<ref name="Sabbath">"Sabbath." Cross, F. L., ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005, p. 1443</ref><ref>"Sunday." Cross, F. L., ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005, p. 1569]</ref> Although Christians meeting for worship on the first day of the week (Sunday for Gentiles) dates back to [[Acts]] and is historically mentioned around 115 AD, Constantine's edict was the start of many more Christians observing only Sunday and not the Sabbath.<ref name = "Sabbath"/> [[Patristics|Patristic writings]] attest that by the second century, it had become commonplace to celebrate the [[Eucharist]] in a corporate day of worship on the first day.<ref name=Bauckham2>{{cite book|chapter=The Lord's Day|first=R.J.|last=Bauckham|title=From Sabbath to Lord's Day|editor1-first=D. A.|editor1-last=Carson|year=1982|pages=221–50|publisher=Wipf & Stock Publishers/Zondervan|editor-link=D. A. Carson|isbn=978-1-57910-307-1}}</ref> A [[Church Fathers|Church Father]], [[Eusebius]], who became the bishop of [[Caesarea Maritima]] about AD 314, stated that for Christians, "the sabbath had been transferred to Sunday".<ref name="Guy2004">{{cite book|last=Guy|first=Laurie|title=Introducing Early Christianity: A Topical Survey of Its Life, Beliefs and Practices|date=4 November 2004|publisher=InterVarsity Press|language=en |isbn=978-0-8308-2698-8|page=213|quote=Significantly, the first Christian writer to suggest that the Sabbath had been transferred to Sunday is Eusebius of Caesarea (post 330).}}</ref>

According to [[Socrates of Constantinople]] and [[Sozomen]], most of the early Church (excluding [[Rome]] and [[Alexandria]]) observed the seventh day Sabbath in Easter.{{Church History Citation|Socrates|book=5|chapter=22}}{{Church History Citation|Sozomen|book=7|chapter=19}}