Editing Sabbath in Christianity (section)

===Corporate worship===
While the [[Lord's Day]] observance of the [[Eucharist]] was established separately from the Jewish Shabbat, the centrality of the Eucharist itself made it the commonest early observance whenever Christians gathered for worship. In many places and times as late as the 4th century, they did continue to gather weekly on the Sabbath, often in addition to the Lord's Day, celebrating the Eucharist on both days.<ref name=socrates>{{citation |last1=Socrates Scholasticus |author-link1=Socrates Scholasticus |title=Ecclesiastical History, Book V, Chapter 22 |work=[[Philip Schaff]] et al., [[Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers]] |series=Second Series (NPNF2, Vol 2) |url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf202.ii.viii.xxiii.html |ref=none }}</ref><ref name=sozomen>{{citation |last1=Sozomen |author-link1=Sozomen |title=Ecclesiastical History, Book VII, Chapter 19 |work=[[Philip Schaff]] et al., [[Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers]] |series=Second Series (NPNF2, Vol 2)|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf202.iii.xii.xix.html |ref=none }}</ref><ref name=Laodicea16>{{citation |editor1-last=Schaff |editor1-first=Philip |editor-link1=Philip Schaff |editor2-last=Wace |editor2-first=Henry |title=Synod of Laodicea, Canon 16 |work=[[Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers]] |series=Second Series (NPNF2, Vol 14) |url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214.viii.vii.iii.xvii.html |ref=none |quote=[Editorial notes of Van Espen]: Among the Greeks the Sabbath was kept exactly as the Lord's day except so far as the cessation of work was concerned}}</ref> No disapproval of Sabbath observance of the Christian festival was expressed at the early church councils that dealt with [[Judaizers|Judaizing]]. The [[Council of Laodicea]] (363–364), for example, mandated only that Sabbath Eucharists must be observed in the same manner as those on the first day.<ref name=Laodicea16/> Neander has suggested that Sabbath Eucharists in many places were kept "as a feast in commemoration of the Creation."<ref name=Laodicea16/>

The issues about Hebrew practices that continued into the 2nd century tended to relate mostly to the Sabbath. [[Justin Martyr]], who attended worship on the first day,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|author=Justin Martyr|title=First Apology|volume=67|author-link=Justin Martyr}}</ref> wrote about the cessation of Hebrew Sabbath observance and stated that the Sabbath was enjoined as a temporary sign to Israel to teach it of human sinfulness,<ref>{{bibleverse|Gal.|3:24-25|NKJV}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Dialogue with Trypho|author=[[Justin Martyr]]|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.viii.iv.xxi.html|volume=21}}</ref> no longer needed after Christ came without sin.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Dialogue with Trypho|author=[[Justin Martyr]]|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.viii.iv.xxiii.html|volume=23}}</ref> He rejected the need to keep a literal seventh-day Sabbath, arguing instead that "the new law requires you to keep the sabbath constantly."<ref>{{citation|author=Justin Martyr|title=Dialogue with Trypho 12:3|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.viii.iv.xii.html}}</ref> However, Justin Martyr believe the Sabbath has only attributed to Moses and the Israelites. According to J.N Andrews, a historian, and theologian, he mentions, "In his (Justin) estimation, the Sabbath was a Jewish institution, absolutely unknown to good men before the time of Moses, and of no authority whatever since the death of Christ." He identifies this through Justin's writings: "Do you see that the elements are not idle, and keep no Sabbaths? Remain as you were born. For if there was no need of circumcision before Abraham, or of the observance of Sabbaths, of feasts and sacrifices, before Moses; no more need of them is there now, after that, according to the will of God, Jesus Christ the Son of God has been born without sin, of a virgin sprung from the stock of Abraham."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/01282.htm|title=Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho (Chapter 23)}}</ref> With more clarification, Andrews also states: "Not only does he (Justin) declare that the Jews were commanded to keep the sabbath because of their wickedness, but in chapter nineteen he denies that any Sabbath existed before Moses. Thus, after naming Adam, Abel, Enoch, Lot, and Melchizedek, he says: "Moreover, all those righteous men already mentioned, though they kept no Sabbaths were pleasing to God." But though he thus denies the Sabbatic institution before the time of Moses he presently makes this statement concerning the Jews: "And you were commanded to keep Sabbaths, that you might retain the memorial of God. For his word makes this announcement, saying. 'That ye may know that I am God who redeemed you.'"[Eze.20:12.].<ref name="Missionary, Historian, Theologian">{{cite web |last1=Andrew |first1=John |title=Missionary, Historian, Theologian |url=https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/1122.2 |website=Ellen G. White Writings |publisher=Steam Press Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Assoc. 1873 |access-date=28 April 2021}}</ref><ref name="newadvent.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/01282.htm|title=Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho (Chapter 19)}}</ref> On these statements from Justin Martyr, J.N Andrews concludes "The Sabbath is indeed the memorial of the God that made the heavens and the earth. And what an absurdity to deny that that memorial was set up when the creative work was done, and to affirm that twenty-five hundred years intervened between the work and the memorial!"<ref name="Missionary, Historian, Theologian"/><ref name="newadvent.org"/>