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Endnote 33 - How It Came About: From Saturday to Sunday

For examples of literary application of the motif of the sun to Christ, see From Sabbath to Sunday, 253–254.

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Endnote 32 - How It Came About: From Saturday to Sunday

A concise survey of the influence of astrological beliefs on early Christianity is provided by Jack Lindsay, Origin of Astrology (London: Muller, 1972) 373–400.

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Endnote 31 - How It Came About: From Saturday to Sunday

The Cult of Sol Invictus (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972) 26. The study is part of the series on Oriental Religions in the Roman Empire edited by the greatest living authority on the subject, M. J. Vermaseren.

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Endnote 30 - How It Came About: From Saturday to Sunday

Irenaeus, Adversus haereses 3, 3, 1.

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Endnote 29 - How It Came About: From Saturday to Sunday

See From Sabbath to Sunday, 204–205.

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Endnote 28 - How It Came About: From Saturday to Sunday

Eusebius, Life of Constantine 3, 18–19, NPNF 2nd, I:524–525 (emphasis supplied).

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Endnote 27 - How It Came About: From Saturday to Sunday

J. B. Lightfoot, The Apostolic Fathers, 4 vols. (London: Macmillan Company, 1885) 11, part I:88. Some scholars rightly label Easter-Sunday as “Roman Easter,” see Mosna, Storia della domenica 117, 119, 333; also Mario Righetti, L’Anno liturgico, manuale di storia liturgica, 4 vols. (Milan: Ancora 1969) 11:245–246.