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| Chapter XVIII. How they do not kneel from the evening of Saturday till the evening of Sunday.
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Chapter XVIII.
How they do not kneel from the evening of Saturday till
the evening of Sunday.
This, too, we ought to
know,—that from the evening of Saturday which precedes the
Sunday,712
up to the following evening, among the
Egyptians they never kneel, nor from Easter to Whitsuntide;713
| 713 Totis
Quinquagesimœ diebus. See above on c. vi. | nor do they at these times observe a rule
of fasting,714
| 714 That this was the
rule of the primitive Church is shown by Tertullian, De Corona
Militis, c. iii. “We count fasting or kneeling in
worship on the Lord’s day to be unlawful. We rejoice in the same
privilege, also, from Easter to Whitsunday.” And even earlier, in
a fragment of Irenæus, there is a mention of the fact that
Christians abstained from kneeling on Sunday in token of the
resurrection. For later testimonies see Ambrose, Ep. 119,
ad Januarium. Epiphanius, on Heresies, Book III.
(Vol. III. p. 583, ed. Dindorf). Jerome, Dial: Adv. Lucif. c.
iv., and the Twentieth Canon of the Council of Nicæa, with Canon
Bright’s notes (Notes on the Canons of the First Four General
Councils, p. 72). | the reason for
which shall be explained in its proper place in the Conferences of the
Elders,715
| 715 Cf. the Conferences
XXI. xi. | if the Lord permits. At present we only
propose to run through the causes very briefly, lest our book exceed
its due limits and prove tiresome or burdensome to the
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